The rise of Asia as an important region for global business has been widely recognized as one of the most significant economic phenomena in the new millennium. This accessible and comprehensive Handbook brings together state-of-the-art reviews of Asian business in an expansive range of areas...

The growth and heightened competitiveness of listed companies in China share several central features. These include the gradual transition of state-owned assets to private investors, a rapid pace of product diversification, and impending rapid growth into international markets. In this article,...

This paper presents and analyzes comparative data on 2,343 foreign-owned organizations operating in the transitional economies of China, Viet Nam and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Specifically, it compares the extent, sectoral distribution, characteristics and performance of...

<title/> Venture capital in most of Asia may be more accurately termed a private equity industry which focuses on funding mature firms in slow growth sectors of the economy rather than on funding start-ups. However, the venture capital industry in Singapore is becoming substantially different from that...

In mid-2003, SingTel was at a key point in its history. The last decade had seen dramatic changes, as SingTel transformed itself from a Singapore-based government-owned telecommunications firm with no foreign operations and no domestic competition, to a credible regional competitor. By 2003,...

This paper focuses on the major telecommunications policies and corporate strategies that have allowed Singapore to achieve a high degree of success in designing and implementing a modern and high-quality telecommunications infrastructure. This success has been achieved with a specific type of...

This paper focuses on the role of competition, defined broadly to encompass both firm-level and internation competition, in the development of telecommunications infrastructure. The context of the paper is Singapore's telecommunications industry. This paper attributes some of the development of...

Successful international expansion requires that parent firms simultaneously transfer multiple MNE knowledge resources and their foreign subsidiaries effectively absorb and utilize the knowledge. In this study, we examine the relationships between multiple knowledge resources (technological and...