Rise of the Corporate Economy in Southeast Asia

Informationen zum Autor Raj Brown is currently Reader in Business History at the School of Management of the Royal Holloway College London. She has previously held positions as Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and as Lecturer in Economic History at the London School of Economics. She is the author of The Indian Minority and Political Change in Malaya, 1945-1957 (1982), Capital and Entrepreneurship in South-East Asia (1994), and Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations (2000, and editor of the four volume Chinese Business Enterprise. Zusammenfassung Backed by detailed empirical data, Raj Brown gives a comprehensive analysis of the rise of the corporate economy in Southeast Asia, focusing in particular on corporate organization, methods of finance, business environment and corporate governance. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Conglomerates in contemporary Indonesia: Concentration! Crisis and Restructuring 3. Irrational Exuberance: The Fatal Conceit of Financial Capitalism in Contemporary Indonesia 4. Indonesian Corporations! Cronyism and Corruption 5. Malaysian Banking: Organizational Control and Corporate Governance 6. Capital structure puzzle: the Hong Leong Group in Malaysia 7. Renong: Privatization Bliss and Globalization 8. The Emergence and Development of Singapore as an International/Regional Financial Centre 9. Dead Calm: State Entrepreneurship in Singapore: Prospects for Regional Economic Power 10. Thai Financial Institutions: Concentration! Crisis and Restructuring 11. The Power of Large Single Shareholding and Industrial Concentration in Thai Corporate Structure and Performance 12. Philippines Corporate and Financial Institutions: Straggling Continuity in an Erratic Environment 13. Lost in Translation: Reinterpreting the Corporate Order in South East Asia

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• Authors: Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown, Rajeswary Ampalavanar (Royal Holloway Unive Brown, Rajeswary Ampalavanar (Royal Holloway University of London Brown, Brown Rajeswary Ampalavanar
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9780415590488
• ISBN: 978-0-415-59048-8
• No. of pages: 388
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia; Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Economics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate Finance / General, Corporate Finance, South East Asia, International business, Regional Studies, Management & management techniques, Regional / International studies, Management and management techniques, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General