The Asian Economic Catharsis : How Asian Firms Bounce Back from Crisis.

Cover -- The Asian Economic Catharsis -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- Preface -- Chapter 1 A Perspective on Asian Management -- INTRODUCTION -- CRISIS AND CATHARSIS: AN OVERVIEW -- ORGANIZATIONAL RESTRUCTURING AND THE MANAGEMENT OF THE FIRM -- ALLYING AND VENTURING: THE UNFOLDING OF A NEW INTERFIRM RATIONALITY -- IN SEARCH OF AN ASIAN ''POST-CRISIS'' MANAGEMENT PARADIGM -- REFERENCES -- Part I Crisis and Catharsis: An Overview -- Chapter 2 Recovering from the Crisis: New Game Opportunities in Asia -- ASIAN GROWTH: MYTH OR MIRACLE? -- THE FOUR PHASES OF GROWTH -- ASIAN MELTDOWN: WHAT WENT WRONG? -- THE POST-CRISIS OUTLOOK -- NEW GAME OPPORTUNITIES -- CONCLUSION: THE CHALLENGE FOR RECOVERY -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 The Asian Economic Crisis and the Decline of Japanese Economic Leadership in Asia -- INTRODUCTION -- THE JAPANESE ECONOMIC MODEL: FROM ECONOMIC MIRACLE TO DECLINE -- JAPANESE RELATIONS IN ASIA -- JAPANESE CORPORATIONS IN ASIA: CO-PROSPERITY ALLIANCE OR CULTURE CLASH? -- Thai Employee Perceptions of the American and Japanese Workplace -- Identification Commitment -- Effort Commitment -- Analysis of Management Interviews -- JAPANESE CORPORATIONS IN THAILAND, ASIA, AND THE WORLD -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 The Asian Economic Crisis: A Forward Look at Issues and Implications for International Business -- INTRODUCTION -- ASIA'S HEXAGRAMIC CRISIS-A RETROSPECTIVE -- INTRAREGIONAL AND INTERREGIONAL DIMENSIONS OF THE CRISIS -- IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Part II Organizational Restructuring and the Management of the Firm -- Chapter 5 Type, Magnitude, and Timing of Organizational Responses to an Economic Crisis: The Case of Thai Construction Companies -- INTRODUCTION -- THAI ECONOMIC SITUATION.

CASE RESEARCH OF CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 Technology and Restructuring of Organization and Assets in an Indian Bank Faced with the Demands from Financial Restructuring and Globalization -- INTRODUCTION -- ISSUES IN ASSET MANAGEMENT IN AN INDIAN BANK -- THE ASSETS MARKET AND RELATIONS-BASED BANKING -- CONCLUSION: MANAGERIAL SYSTEMIC RESPONSE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 Reforms of China's State-Run Enterprises: Chances and Risks for China and for Western Business -- A FEW REMARKS ON CHINA'S FRAGILE ECONOMIC STABILITY -- REACTIONS OF WESTERN BUSINESS -- BASIC STRUCTURES OF CHINA'S STATE ENTERPRISES -- CHANCES AND RISKS OF ENGAGING IN STATE-RUN ENTERPRISES -- REFERENCES -- Part III Allying and Venturing: The Unfolding of a New Interfirm Rationality -- Chapter 8 Venturing Jointly: Oriental and Occidental Perceptions -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORIES OF PROCESS -- THEORIES OF INDIVIDUALS -- Culture and Accounting -- Bribery -- THEORIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Time Frames -- Contexts -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 Reorganizing Japanese Business Groups in Times of Crisis: Sony's Bold Experiments -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CHANGING BATTLEFIELD OF JAPANESE BUSINESS -- Deregulation of Pure Holding Companies -- New Accounting Practices -- Stock Exchange Scheme -- EMERGING BUSINESS MODELS -- PIONEERING CORPORATE GROUP MANAGEMENT: SONY'S EXPERIMENTS -- FUTURE TRENDS IN CORPORATE GROUP MANAGEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10 The Increasing Competitiveness of Indo-German Joint Ventures: The Role of Joint Venture Autonomy for Success -- INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY -- CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK -- Role of Trust -- Role of Commitment -- Role of Cross-Cultural Competence -- METHOD -- FINDINGS -- The Impact of Trust.

The Impact of Commitment -- The Impact of Cross-Cultural Competence -- German Partner -- Indian Partner -- Impact of Coordination Strategy (Competitive Advantage) -- DISCUSSION AND CONSEQUENCES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11 New Economic Development and Strategic Alliances in the Japanese Finance Sector -- INTRODUCTION -- SHAKING THE CRADLE -- Economic Crisis -- Changing Investor Attitudes -- A Decline in Mutual Shareholding Relationships -- A Shift to Direct Financing by Industrial Corporations -- Formation of Alliances -- ALLIANCES IN THE JAPANESE FINANCE SECTOR -- NEW DEVELOPMENT MODEL THROUGH KNOWLEDGE-BASED ALLIANCES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Part IV In Search of an Asian ''Post-Crisis'' Management Paradigm -- Chapter 12 The Evolution of Management in Thailand after the Asian Crisis -- INVESTMENT AND THE ASIAN CRISIS -- THE FIVE TRENDS IN POST-CRISIS THAILAND -- META-LEARNING: A CATALYTIC PROCESS -- META-LEARNING AND MENTAL THERAPY -- Mental Therapy-To Counteract the Detractors -- Assertiveness -- Creativity -- Pluralism -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13 The Crisis of Japanese Management and Its Transferability Abroad: The ''Hybrid Model'' -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DEBATE ABOUT JAPANESE MANAGEMENT -- THE ''TRADITIONAL'' JAPANESE ENTERPRISE AND MANAGEMENT -- THE CRISIS OF JAPANESE MANAGEMENT -- THE TRANSFERABILITY OF JAPANESE MANAGEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 14 Are Firms in Southeast Asia Ready for Knowledge Management? Validating a Framework for Knowledge Creation in Thai Telecommunication Firms -- INTRODUCTION -- KNOWLEDGE AS A STRATEGIC RESOURCE -- PROCESSES OF KNOWLEDGE CREATION -- CATALYSTS OF KNOWLEDGE CREATION -- METHODOLOGY -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 15 Chinese Network Management: An Alternative Strategic Management Model -- INTRODUCTION.

THE HISTORICAL INFLUENCES ON THE CHINESE NETWORKS -- CONFUCIANISM -- WHAT IS A NETWORK? -- THE NETWORKS' STRATEGIC PRACTICE -- STRATEGIC PLANNING AND THE NETWORKS -- BUT IS IT A STRATEGIC PLANNING MODEL? -- COMPETITIVE IMPLICATIONS -- REFERENCES -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors -- ABOUT THE EDITOR -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS.

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