Contributors

Acknowledgements

Section A: Introduction and overview

Why the Asia Pacific still matters

Usha C. V. Haley

Section B: Regional change

Part One: Foreign investors' concerns

Asia at risk: the impact of methodology in forecasting

Llewellyn D. Howell

Donald Xie

Forecasting Asian risk: a follow-up study

Llewellyn D. Howell

A historical perspective on East Asia as an independent engine of growth: prospects and implications for managers

Kong-Yam Tan

Perspectives on East Asia since the financial crisis in July 1997

Kong-Yam Tan

Financial system design in the Asia Pacific context: costs and benefits of universal banking

Anthony Saunders

Ingo Walter

ABN Amro's counter-intuitive universal-banking strategy

Usha C. V. Haley

Innovation in Southeast Asia: lessons for Europe?

Mike Hobday

Do the lessons still stand?

Mike Hobday

Australia's Asian business orientation: investor and intermediary

Ian Marsh

Characteristics of Australia's post-crisis orientation towards Asia

Ian Marsh

Part Two: Local stakeholders' concerns

Moral consideration and strategic management moves: the Chinese case

Kam-hon Lee

Post-crisis consideration and moves

Kam-hon Lee

The black hole of Southeast Asia: strategic decision-making in an informational void

George T. Haley

Chin-Tiong Tan

Fool me once ...

George T. Haley

Singapore Incorporated: reinterpreting Singapore's business environments through a corporate metaphor

Usha C. V. Haley

Linda Low

Mun-Heng Toh

Singapore Inc.'s official World Wide Web site

Usha C. V. Haley

Informational network industrialization and Japanese business management

Sam K. Steffensen

Japanese organizational change in an era of information network industrialization

Sam K. Steffensen

Strategic management of international business relationships with New Zealand: a primer for executives and investors

Andre M. Everett

Characteristics of post-crisis New Zealand

Andre M. Everett

Part Three: Local governments' concerns

Crafted culture: governmental sculpting of modern Singapore and effects on business environments

Usha C. V. Haley

Linda Low

International education and crafted culture in Singapore

Usha C. V. Haley

Virtual Singapores: shaping international competitive environments through business--government partnerships

Usha C. V. Haley

The Vietnam--Singapore Industrial Park

Usha C. V. Haley

When the tourists flew in: strategic implications of foreign direct investment in Vietnam's tourism industry

Usha C. V. Haley

George T. Haley

How the Asian crisis has affected Vietnam

Usha C. V. Haley

Part Four: World Wide Web resources on regional change

The best World Wide Web resources on regional change in the Asia Pacific

Usha C. V. Haley

Organizational change

Part Five: Foreign multinational corporations' strategies

Skills for successful international assignments to, from and within Asia and the Pacific: implications for preparation, support and training

Gary Fontaine

Family support for expatriate employees

Usha C. V. Haley

Boxing with shadows: competing effectively with the Overseas Chinese and Overseas Indian business networks in the Asian arena

George T. Haley

Usha C. V. Haley

Boxing with shadows: round two

George T. Haley

Foreign companies and Chinese workers: employee motivation in the People's Republic of China

Terence Jackson

Mette Bak

China in the wake of the Asian crisis

Terence Jackson

Mette Bak

Effective leadership in joint ventures in Vietnam: a cross-cultural perspective

Truong Quang

Fredric William Swierczek

Dang Thi Kim Chi

Implications of the Asian crisis for official ideology and investments in Vietnam

Truong Quang

Fredric William Swierczek

Part Six: local companies' strategies

A strategic perspective on Overseas Chinese networks' decision-making

George T. Haley

Strategic adaptation for a mid-life crisis

George T. Haley

International strategies of corporate culture change: emulation consumption and hybridity

R. I. Westwood

P. S. Kirkbride

Asian corporate symbols in rapidly changing times

R. I. Westwood

P. S. Kirkbride

An examination of strategic foreign direct investment decision processes: the case of Taiwanese manufacturing small- and medium-sized enterprises

Ho-Ching Wei

Chris Christodoulou

Taiwanese small- and medium-sized enterprises in post-crisis Asia

Ho-Ching Wei

Chris Christodoulou

The evolution of multinational firms from Asia: a longitudinal study of Taiwan's Acer Group

Peter Ping Li

Acer's strategy from post-crisis Asia

Peter Ping Li

Defending against multinational corporation offensives: strategy of the large domestic firm in a newly liberalizing economy

Ranjan Das

India's post-crisis business environment and the strategies of domestic firms

Ranjan Das

Part Seven: Local governments' strategies

Electricity industry reform: a case analysis in Australia

Lindsay Nelson

Peter J. Dowling

Concerns about Australian privatization programmes

Lindsay Nelson

Peter J. Dowling

Transforming the tax collector: re-engineering the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore

Siew Kien Sia

Boon Siong Neo

Singapore's drive for efficiency

Siew Kien Sia

Boon Siong Neo

Part Eight: World Wide Web resources on organizational change

The best World wide Web resources on organizational change in the Asia Pacific

Usha C. V. Haley

Appendix: abbreviations

Index