The New Asian Corporation Managing for the Future in Post-Crisis Asia

The new Asian corporation has emerged, and Westerners who currently do business in Asia or contemplate doing so would do well to take heed of the new Asian business model or risk being left behind. Here, author Michael Hamlin takes a close look at the revolutionary new business models Asia's best companies are adopting, the challenges they still face and, most of all, the challenges posed to their Western competitors. From organizational structure to strategy, this book provides in-depth portraits of Asia's leading companies and provides specific strategies Western managers can use to best their Asian competitors or successfully enter the new Asian market.

MICHAEL ALAN HAMLIN is managing director of TeamAsia, a business consulting group and speaker's bureau, and its Philippine and Singapore affiliate, Hamlin-Iturralde Corporation. Formerly, he served as vice president for external affairs and on the faculty of the Asian Institute of Management. He is a weekly columnist for BusinessWorld, the Philippines' leading business newspaper, and The Manila Bulletin, and is also a regular contributor to the "Rethinking Asia" column in the Far Eastern Economic Review. The author of Asia's Best: The Myth & Reality of Asia's Most Successful Corporations (1998), Hamlin hails from Texas and lives in Manila.