This book reports on the findings from a research study of vocational and higher education graduates’ employability challenges. The nature and extent of these challenges, their underlying causes, and effective strategies to address the problems in this area are all analysed from a...

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the growing importance of the ‘emerging states’ in global affairs and governance, many problems requiring immediate...

Title -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Author Biographies -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Chapter One: Perspectives on Transnational Entrepreneurship -- Chapter Two: Entrepreneurship in the Japanese Context -- Chapter Three: Japanese Self-Initiated Expatriate...

1 Previous Literature, New Findings (Gary Fields and Saumik Paul) -- Part I Conceptual Issues -- 2 Does the Exposure to Routinization Explain the Evolution of the Labor Share of Income? Evidence from Asia (Mitali Das) -- 3 The Labor Share of Income Around the World: Evidence from a Panel Dataset...

1. Southeast Asia and the AEC, an Introduction -- 2. The Philippines -- 3. The Vietnamese Economy at the Crossroads -- 4. Thailand -- 5. Malaysia: Trade, Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Integration -- 6. Singapore: Working Towards Prosperity -- 7. Indonesia: Choosing between the...

1. The Evolution of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin -- 2. The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in Northeast Thailand -- 3. Divergent Pathways of Rice Farming in Ubon Ratchathani Province -- 4. Farmer Organizations in Ubon Ratchathani Province -- 5. From Subsistence to Commercial Rice...

Preface -- Chapter 1 Creation of Blockchain and a New Ecosystem -- Chapter 2 Market Quality Approach to IoT Data on Blockchain Big Data -- Chapter 3 Industrial Applications of Blockchain to IoT Data -- Chapter 4 Theory of Money: From Ancient Japanese Copper Coins to Virtual Currencies -- Chapter...

Chapter One: China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Introduction and Overview -- Chapter Two: Proliferating Major Power Infrastructure Initiatives -- Chapter Three: Potential Economic Impact of BRI: A CGE Analysis -- Chapter Four: Perception Survey of Asian Opinion Leaders -- Chapter Five: BRI and...

Introduction -- Chinese Enterprises’ Use of Management Accounting Tools -- Management Accounting Practices in Indonesia -- Management Accounting Practices in Export-Oriented Manufacturing Small and Medium Enterprises in Malaysia -- Management Accounting Practices in Export-Oriented...

Introduction -- Part I. Country Implementation of SDGs: Measuring the Distance to 2030 Targets -- 1. The impact of Global COVID-19 Crisis on SDGs achievement in ASEAN-countries -- 2. Measuring the Distance to 2030 Targets in China and East Asia Imperatives -- 3. Measuring the distance to 2030...