Management in South-East Asia

<p>This edited volume deals with Management in South-East Asia. It widely agreed that this is a region of growing importance economically in today’s globalized world. This area contains a diverse range of dynamic economies ranging from the ‘highly developed’ through to the ‘newly emerging’ each competing in a different manner and with different characteristics. This book specifically focuses on current and future developments in areas such as Business Culture Enterprises and Human Resources. It covers a range of topics industries size of firms and countries (Malaysia Singapore Thailand Vietnam three of which are capitalist economies with the latter a transitional communist one). These locations also comprehend a variety of business cultures with a variety of religious values ranging from Buddhist to Islamic and ethnic identities. The approach taken is inter-disciplinary and most of the contributions are by locally-based authors who are very well qualified to write about their chosen country-setting. The experts contributing include those specialized in banking business management economics finance sociology psychology and so on all based in business schools and universities encompassing a good number of national origins. </p><p>This book was previously published as a special issue of the <em>Asian Pacific Business Review.</em></p>