Asian Business and Management
, by Michael A Witt
- ISBN: 9781446200254 | 1446200256
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 6/6/2012
This major work presents a collection of seminal works on Asian business and management, carefully chosen by the editor on the basis of impact and expert nominations. The set consolidates key contributions from diverse sources and organizes articles by themes to enable better understanding of key areas. The editor's introduction reviews the included articles and identifies major streams of research within each theme.
| Alliances, Joint Ventures | |
| Japanese Joint Ventures with Western Multinationals | |
| Synthesizing the Economic and Cultural Explanations of Failure | |
| Learning from Competing Partners | |
| Outcomes and Durations of Scale and Link Alliances in Europe, North America and Asia | |
| Setting the Stage for Trust and Strategic Integration in Japanese-U.S. Co-Operative Alliances | |
| Building Effective International Joint Venture Leadership Teams in China | |
| Keiretsu Networks and Corporate Performance in Japan | |
| The Role of Trust and Contractual Safeguards on Co-Operation in Non-Equity Alliances | |
| Performance and Survival of Joint Ventures with Non-Conventional Ownership Structures | |
| Local Knowledge Transfer and Performance | |
| Implications for Alliance Formation in Asia | |
| Alliance Structure and the Scope of Knowledge Transfer | |
| Evidence from U.S.-Japan Agreements | |
| Influences on Foreign Equity Ownership Level in Joint Ventures in China | |
| Acquiring Knowledge by Foreign Partners from International Joint Ventures in a Transition Economy | |
| Learning-by-Doing and Learning Myopia | |
| How MNCs Choose Entry Modes and Form Alliances | |
| The China Experience | |
| Antecedents and Effects of Parent Control in International Joint Ventures | |
| Bargaining Power, Management Control and Performance in U.S.- China Joint Ventures | |
| a Comparative Case Study | |
| Business Groups | |
| Project Execution Capability, Organizational Know-How and Conglomerate Corporate Growth I Late Industrialization | |
| The Co-Evolution of Institutional Environments and Organizational Strategies | |
| The Rise of Family Business Groups in the Asian Region | |
| Economic Performance of Group-Affiliated Companies in Korea | |
| Intragroup Resource-Sharing and Internal Business Transactions | |
| Structural Inertia, Imitation and Foreign Expansion | |
| South Korean Firms and Business Groups in China, 1987-95 | |
| Engineering Growth | |
| Business Group Structure and Firm Performance in China's Transition Economy | |
| Estimating the Performance Effects of Business Groups in Emerging Markets | |
| From Diversification Premium to Diversification Discount during Institutional Transitions | |
| Corporate Governance | |
| a Clash of Capitalisms | |
| Foreign Shareholders and Corporate Restructuring in 1990s Japan | |
| Corporate Governance in Asia | |
| a Survey | |
| Outside Directors and Firm Performance during Institutional Transitions | |
| Context and Politics | |
| Asia's Next Giant | |
| South Korea and Late Industrialization | |
| Developing Difference | |
| Social Organization and the Rise of the Auto Industries of South Korea, Taiwan, Spain and Argentina | |
| From Fiefs to Clans and Network Capitalism | |
| Explaining China's Emerging Economic Order | |
| Context, Comparison and Methodology in Chinese Management Research | |
| Political Hazards, Experience and Sequential Entry Strategies | |
| The International Expansion of Japanese Firms, 1980-1998 | |
| Will Global Capitalism Be Anglo-Saxon Capitalism? | |
| Institutional Governance Systems and Variations in National Competitive Advantage | |
| An Integrative Framework | |
| Market, Culture and Authority | |
| a Comparative Analysis of Management and Organization in the Far East | |
| The Institutional Effects on Strategic Alliance Partner Selection in Transition Economies | |
| China versus Russia | |
| Organizational Dynamics of Market Transition | |
| Hybrid Forms, Property Rights and Mixed Economy in China | |
| An Institution-Based View of International Business Strategy | |
| a Focus on Emerging Economies | |
| Chinese Business Systems and the Challenges of Transition | |
| Paradoxes of Organizational Theory and Research | |
| Using the Case of China to Illustrate National Contingency | |
| Environment-Strategy Relationship and Its Performance Implications | |
| An Empirical Study of the Chinese Electronics Industry | |
| The Social Construction of Business Systems in East Asia | |
| Culture | |
| Self or Group | |
| Cultural Effects of Training on Self-Efficacy and Performance | |
| The Impact of Culture on the Strategy of Multinational Enterprises | |
| Does National Origin Affect Ownership Decisions? | |
| Cultural Dimensions in Management and Planning | |
| a Quarter Century of Culture's Consequences | |
| a Review of Empirical Research Incorporating Hofstede's Cultural Values Framework | |
| Culture and the Self | |
| Implications for Cognition, Emotion and Motivation | |
| Do Organizational Cultures Replicate National Cultures? | |
| Isomorphism, Rejection and Reciprocal Opposition in the Corporate Values of Three Countries | |
| Exploring Subcultural Differences in Hofstede's Value Survey | |
| The Case of the Chinese | |
| The Impact of National Culture and Economic Ideology on Managerial Work Values | |
| a Study of the United States, Russia, Japan and China | |
| The Chinese Family Business | |
| a Central Question in Cross-Cultural Research | |
| Do Employees of Different Cultures Interpret Work-Related Measures in an Equivalent Manner? | |
| Culture, Institutions and Business in East Asia | |
| Culture, Meaning and Institutions | |
| Executive Rationale in Germany and Japan | |
| The Gender Gap in Workplace Authority | |
| a Cross-National-Study | |
| Part Entry | |
| Network Linkages and Location Choice in Foreign Direct Investment | |
| Ownership Strategy of Japanese Firms | |
| Transactional, Institutional and Experience Influences | |
| Resource Commitment, Entry Timing and Market Performance of Foreign Direct Investments in Emerging Economies | |
| The Case of Japanese International Joint Ventures in China | |
| Determinants of Entry in an Emerging Economy | |
| a Multilevel Approach | |
| Foreign Investment Strategies and Subnational Institutions in Emerging Markets | |
| Evidence from Vietnam | |
| The Hierarchical Model of Market Entry Modes | |
| Country-of-Origin Effects of Foreign Direct Investment | |
| Knowledge, Learning, R&D, Innovation | |
| How Does Knowledge Flow? Inter-Firm Patterns in the Semiconductor Industry | |
| Crisis Construction and Organizational Learning | |
| Capability-Building in Catching-up at Hyundai Motor | |
| Product Innovation Strategy and the Performance of New Technology Ventures in China | |
| Learning to Compete in a Transition Economy | |
| Experience, Environment and Performance | |
| Conducting R&D in Countries with Weak Intellectual Property Rights Protection | |
| General Reviews, Perspectives, Methodology | |
| On Improving the Robustness of Asian Management Theories | |
| Theoretical Anchors in the Era of Globalization | |
| The Parochial Dinosaur | |
| Organizational Science in a Global Context | |
| Asian Management Research | |
| Status Today and Future Outlook | |
| Varieties of Asian Capitalism | |
| Toward an Institutional Theory of Asian Enterprise | |
| Institutions and the Oli Paradigm of the Multinational Enterprise | |
| Strategy in Emerging Economies | |
| Asian Management Research Needs More Self-Confidence | |
| Diagnosing Measurement Equivalence in Cross-National Research | |
| The Thick Description and Comparison of Societal Systems of Capitalism | |
| a Perspective on Regional and Global Strategies of Multinational Enterprises | |
| Outward Foreign Direct Investment | |
| The Determinants of Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment | |
| The Internationalization of Chinese Firms | |
| a Case for Theoretical Extension? | |
| Transferring Production Systems | |
| An Institutionalist Account of Hyundai Motor Company in the United States | |
| Human Resource Management | |
| Information, Incentives and Bargaining in the Japanese Economy | |
| Organizational and HRM Strategies in Korea | |
| Impact on Firm Performance in an Emerging Economy | |
| Human Resource Management and the Performance of Western Firms in China | |
| Globalization, China's Free (Read Bonded) Labour Market and the Chinese Trade Unions | |
| Changing Patterns of Global Staffing in the Multinational Enterprise | |
| Challenges to the Conventional Expatriate Assignment and Emerging Alternatives | |
| British Factory, Japanese Factory | |
| The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial Relations | |
| International HRM | |
| National Business Systems, Organizational Politics and the International Division of Labour in MNCs | |
| Career Management Issues Facing Expatriates | |
| Globalization, Athletic Footwear Commodity Chains and Employment Relations in China | |
| Transferring Human Resource Practices from the United Kingdom to China | |
| The Limits and Potential for Convergence | |
| The Effects of Human Resource Management Systems on Economic Performance | |
| An International Comparison of U.S. and Japanese Plants | |
| Getting It Together | |
| Temporal Co-Ordination and Conflict Management in Global Virtual Teams | |
| Organizational, Citizenship Behavior of Contingent Workers in Singapore | |
| a Retrospective and Prospective Analysis of HRM Research in Chinese Firms | |
| Implications and Directions for Future Study | |
| Networks, Trust | |
| Trust and Performance in Cross-Border Marketing Partnerships | |
| a Behavioral Approach | |
| Configurations of Inter-Organizational Relationships | |
| a Comparison between U.S. and Japanese Automakers | |
| Effective Inter-Firm Collaboration | |
| How Firms Minimize Transaction Costs and Maximize Transaction Value | |
| The Role of Trustworthiness in Reducing Transaction Costs and Improving Performance | |
| Empirical Evidence from the United States, Japan and Korea | |
| The Importance of Social Capital to the Management of Multinational Enterprises | |
| Relational Networks among Asian and Western Firms | |
| Levels of Organizational Trust in Individualist versus Collectivist Societies | |
| a Seven-Nation Study | |
| Guanxi versus the Market | |
| Ethics and Efficiency | |
| Guanxi and Organizational Dynamics | |
| Organizational Networking in Chinese Firms | |
| The Growth of the Firm in Planned Economies in Transition | |
| Institutions, Organizations and Strategic Choice | |
| Managerial Ties and Firm Performance in a Transition Economy | |
| The Nature of a Micro-Macro Link | |
| Price, Quality and Trust | |
| Inter-Firm Relations in Britain and Japan | |
| When Brokers May Not Work | |
| The Cultural Contingency of Social Capital in Chinese High-Tech Firms | |
| Guanxi | |
| Connections as Substitutes for Formal Institutional Support | |
| The Resilience of Guanxi and Its New Deployments | |
| a Critique of Some New Guanxi Scholarship | |
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