This book provides an original analysis of the economic success of Overseas Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia: The ethnically homogeneous group of Chinese middlemen is an informal, low-cost organization for the provision of club goods, e.g. contract enforcement, that are essential to...

1 Taiwan's Economic Development: The Role of Entrepreneurship and its Incubating Factors (with Ho-Don Yan and Shan-Yu Chen) -- 2 A Model of a Small Family Business in Taiwan -- 3 Uncertainty, Learning and Error Elimination: Taiwanese Entrepreneurs in Mainland China -- 4 Taiwan's Entrepreneurs...

1.Introduction -- 2.Research Methodology -- 3.Leadership of Hidden Champions from Vision to Communityship -- 4.Three Bivalent Performance Factors of Hidden Champions Ownership, Organizational Culture and Organizational Governance -- 5.Innovation Behaviour of Hidden Champions -- 6.International...

Change management is omnipresent in organisations as companies have to transform constantly. This applies not only to large corporations operating in an international context, but also to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Yet executing a change project is accompanied by great challenges...

With growing international business, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been faced with increased competition, but also with enhanced opportunities. Edith Olejnik addresses four major issues within the context of SMEs’ internationalization process: First, she identifies the three...