The current failure rate of European and North American joint ventures with Asian partners in Asia is high. A major cause is culture clash. Frederic Swierczek and Georges Hirsch present an Asian Frame of Reference on Multicultural Management and make suggestions to improve the success rate of...

The authors explain the growth of Japanese banking services in European Community countries, consider their prospects in major sectors of banking and draw judgements on their likely success.

This paper analyzes family-owned banks in Thailand. Using the data before the financial crisis, we find that wealthy families extensively use pyramids to control a business empire which includes financial and non-financial firms. We analyze the entire family group structure and find that...