Strategic Management in the Asia Pacific: Harnessing Regional and Organizational Change for Competitive Advantage
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (636 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0750641290 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 585 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Usha C.V. Haley is Associate Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology's School of Management and Research, Associate at the Australian National University's Managing Business in Asia Program. She has taught International Business and Strategic Management at several major universities in the USA, Mexico, Singapore and Australia and in executive-development programs around the worl
Guth, Professor of Management and Strategy, New York University, Stern School of Business, New York, USA"Strategic Management in the Asia Pacific provides a very helpful regional lens on International Business." -- Donald R. This book will be of great value to foreign investors, multinational company managers, local company managers, and local government officials interested in finding outstanding opportunities for wealth creation in the region." -- William D. Mafatlal, Chairman, Stanrose Mafatlal Group (including Standard Industries Limited, Stanrose Mafatlal Investments & Finance Limited, Mafatlal Lubricants Limited,
She also serves as a consultant on issues concerning strategic management, business-government relations and foreign direct investment for several multinational corporations in North America, Australasia, Europe and Asia. Examines strategic management and organizational change in Asia Pacific from a number of different perspectives: local governments; local companies and MNCs. Sources for up-to-the-minute information to make strategic decisions are also indicated.Contributors include:Kam-Hon Lee, Dean of Business School, Chinese University of Hong Kong (who advised Coca-Cola's entry into China); Mike Hobday, University of Sussex (who advises the Malaysia Government on its 2020 policy); Ingo Walter, Stern School of Business, New York University (who advises several major governments and corporate institutions on international banking and finance); Chin Tiong Tan, National University of Singapore (who advises Singapore Airlines among other major companies); Kong Yam Tan, National University of Singapore (who served as Singapore's Chief Economist and is currently its Chair to APEC)
Outstanding reference A Customer This book has received many kudos from prominent academics and businesspeople -- and I would like to add my own here. An extraordinary labor undertaken by Professor Usha harnessing the talent and output of some of the most prominent researchers working on the Asia Pacific. Their insights and arguments on business processes ranging from initial entry into countries, to managing human resource problems, to circumventing political and financial risks, make this book invaluable. Though not necessarily bed-time reading, and some of the analysis is not intended for the layman, parts of this book (if not all as it does c. Everything you always wanted to know about Asian management A Customer I was surprized that I actually enjoyed this book. It certainly is not easy reading, being chock full of academic references, WWW sites, statistics, charts/graphs and bibliographies -- but the editor (Prof. Usha) got many of these distinguished contributors (one of whom, I know is Singapore's chief economic advisor) to confront what they had written before the Asian crisis with what actually happened and to make sense of it. This is an extremely enlightening book on Asian business and a really valuable reference not just because of the quality of the chapters, but also because of the period that they cover -- the . "This is an excellent book!" according to A Customer. I disagree with the reviewer (from Chicago) who indicated that this book was complicated and lacked focus. This is an excellent book to review the influences on and developments in Asian business. The book is carefully organized into sections (for example it looks at strategic management from both multinationals' and local companies' perspectives) and very well edited -- a mounumental job no doubt given the breadth and scope of the subject matter. Some of the articles provide in-depth insights not easily found elsewhere: I found Professor Haley's chapters on business in Singapore and Vietnam extremely valuable; I