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Preface

A Perspective on Asian Management

Frank-Jurgen Richter

I. Crisis and Catharsis: An Overview

Recovering from the Crisis: New Game Opportunities in Asia

Ian C. Buchanan

Chipper Boulas

Babu Raj Gopi

The Asian Economic Crisis and the Decline of Japanese Economic Leadership in Asia

Harold R. Kerbo

Robert Slagter

The Asian Economic Crisis: A Forward Look at Issues and Implications for International Business

Frank L. Bartels

Hafiz R. Mirza

II. Organizational Restructuring and the Management of the Firm

Type, Magnitude, and Timing of Organizational Responses to an Economic Crisis: The Case of Thai Construction Companies

Bettina Buchel

Technology and Restructuring of Organization and Assets in an Indian Bank Faced with the Demands from Financial Restructuring and Globalization

Parthasarathi Banerjee

Reforms of China's State-Run Enterprises: Chances and Risks for China and for Western Business

Wolfgang Klenner

III. Allying and Venturing: The Unfolding of a New Interfirm Rationality

Venturing Jointly: Oriental and Occidental Perceptions

John Kidd

Reorganizing Japanese Business Groups in Times of Crisis: Sony's Bold Experiments

Yoshiya Teramoto

Caroline Benton

The Increasing Competitiveness of Indo-German Joint Ventures: The Role of Joint Venture Autonomy for Success

Brij N. Kumar

Markus Khanna

New Economic Development and Strategic Alliances in the Japanese Finance Sector

Caroline Benton

Yoshiya Teramoto

IV. In Search of an Asian ``Post-Crisis'' Management Paradigm

The Evolution of Management in Thailand after the Asian Crisis

John Kidd

Kriengsak Niratpattanasai

Frank-Jurgen Richter

The Crisis of Japanese Management and Its Transferability Abroad: The ``Hybrid Model''

Lucrezia Songini

Are Firms in Southeast Asia Ready for Knowledge Management? Validating a Framework for Knowledge Creation in Thai Telecommunication Firms

Bettina Buchel

Steffen P. Raub

Chinese Network Management: An Alternative Strategic Management Model

George Haley

Index

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