Business Networks in East Asian Capitalisms: Enduring Trends, Emerging Patterns builds on the foundational studies conducted in the 1990s by gathering contemporary empirical and theoretical chapters which explore these themes in a comparative perspective. The book includes contr…
The financial crises across Asia in 1997-98 ignited fierce debate about domestic economic weaknesses and flaws in the international financial system. Some analysts blamed Asian governments for inadequate prudential supervision, widespread failures of corporate governance and eve…
Mediating Across Difference is based on a fundamental premise: to deal adequately with conflict, and particularly with conflict stemming from cultural and other differences, requires genuine openness to different cultural practices and dialogue between different ways of knowing …
'Mediating Across Difference' is based on a fundamental premise: to deal adequately with conflict - and particularly with conflict stemming from cultural and other differences - requires genuine openness to different cultural practices and dialogue between different ways of know…
"The Zheng family of merchants and militarists emerged from the tumultuous seventeenth century amid a severe economic depression, a harrowing dynastic transition from the ethnic Chinese Ming to the Manchu Qing, and the first wave of European expansion into East Asia. Under four …