Asian Business Groups - Context, Governance and Performance

Provides a comprehensive overview and introduction to the types of business group that dominate the Asian economic landscape. This book shows how groups from different national contexts develop particular approaches to strategy and to the development of core capabilities. It addresses the implications for Asian international competitiveness.

List of contents

The bright and dark sides of Asian business groups; Prototypes: Colonial business groups in Asia before 1945; Continuity and change in Japan's business groups; State-constructed business groups: the Korean chaebol; Searching for business groups in Taiwan; Business groups in mainland China; Hong Kong based business groups; Business groups in India; Ethnic Chinese business groups in Southeast Asia: Social capital and institutional persistence; The development of Asia's business groups.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Carney, Michael Professor Carney
• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2008
• EAN: 9781843342441
• ISBN: 978-1-84334-244-1
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Chandos Asian Studies; Chandos Asian Studies Series; Chandos Asian Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries