Asia Pacific Business Review

1996 - 2025

Current editor(s): Professor Chris Rowley and Malcolm Warner

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Volume 31, issue 2, 2025

Understanding the survival strategies: organization resilience and innovative capabilities in post-pandemic East Asia pp. 223-233

Qiang Liang, Ingyu Oh and Chris Rowley

The impact of public health emergency perception on psychological crisis in the Chinese context: the role of social support and psychological targeting pp. 234-256

Shuai Han, Yujie Cai, Tongtong Sun, Xinrui Liang and Zhen Wei

Major government customers and organizational resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from China pp. 257-279

Weimin Xie, Jialu Guo and Hengxin Zhang

Do female family directors affect corporate social responsibility in Chinese family firms? pp. 280-300

Lihong Song, Wanshi He, Likai Zou and Menghui Xu

Managing coronavirus CSR programmes to provoke emotional responses and purchase intention in the post-COVID-19 period in China: the case of luxury fashion brands pp. 301-324

Sherriff T. K. Luk and Yuerong Zhou

High-quality development of family businesses in the post-epidemic era under the moderating effect of the business environment in China pp. 325-348

Shu Meng, Yuanrui Xu, Xin Gao, Jiamei Zhang and Xiaoqi Wu

The effects of gender diversity and cognitive diversity on team performance in Japanese R&D teams including the effect of shared leadership as a moderator pp. 349-383

Jun Ishikawa

Impromptu behaviour formation and operational strategy innovation in a Chinese enterprise under the context of COVID-19 pp. 384-406

Jia Guo, Jingyi Pu, Biaoan Shan and Jiayu Liu

Volume 31, issue 1, 2025

Korean human resource management as number one: lessons for the Asia Pacific pp. 1-14

Young-Myon Lee, Ingyu Oh and Chris Rowley

Digital leadership within large South Korean firms pp. 15-37

Jin-Woong Yoo, Saeyeon Roh, Smita Tripathi and Hyunmi Jang

Regional specialists in focus: spearheading Samsung’s globalization initiative from Korea pp. 38-63

Jong Min Lee and Taehyung Kim

Collective turnover and firm performance: the joint effects of working time-reducing human resource practices and human capital flow and composition under the 52-hour rule in South Korea pp. 64-89

Eun-Ji Oh, Yong Geun Kim and Youngsang Kim

Hybridization of human resource management practices at South Korean online game firms: the effects of inter-organizational networks pp. 90-111

Francis K. Yoon

Examining the seniority-based pay system in Korean companies: current trends and its implications for Asian economies pp. 112-132

Young-Myon Lee and Jung Eun Kim

Unlocking the potential of green human resource management in Korea: a comprehensive review pp. 133-156

Dongwon Lee and Ji-Young Ahn

Work-from-home satisfaction and task crafting in South Korea: the roles of resilience and job tenure pp. 157-179

Hansol Hwang, Won-Moo Hur, Yuhyung Shin and Michael Sunwoo Paik

Collaborative intelligence achieved from AI-enabled recruitment: a case study of POSCO in South Korea pp. 180-199

Joomin Kim, Stefano Battaglia and Hyunjee Hannah Kim

From dichotomy towards inclusion: whether and how Korean shipbuilding stakeholders are integrated through social contracts pp. 200-222

Gyoung-Gyu Choi, Sang-Joon Kim and Jungjin Kim

Volume 30, issue 5, 2024

Universal task and two faces of relationship orientation: a novel scale to measure organizational culture in Vietnam pp. 871-893

Quan Hoang Nguyen Tran, Krista Jaakson and Maaja Vadi

Human capital, growth, and competitiveness of Philippine MSMEs: the mediating role of social capital pp. 894-923

Elaine Borazon, Jen-Ming Liu and Fevzi Okumus

Three-tier SME internationalization process model: a Vietnam study on the relationship between managerial capacity, innovation strategies and technological and innovation leadership pp. 924-955

Christopher Selvarajah, Suku Sukunesan and Denny Meyer

Impact of influencers’ influencing strategy on follower outcomes: evidence from China pp. 956-981

Wenyu Dou, Jintao Wu, Ming Yan and Junyi Tang

Implementing global corporate social responsibility locally: the example of multinational enterprises and international joint ventures in Myanmar pp. 982-994

Tim G. Andrews, Khongphu Nimanandh, Chris Rowley, Khin Thi Htun and Kunsiree Kowsuvon

Core job resources to improve employee engagement in China: the role of work-life balance, autonomy and expertise pp. 995-1019

Min Liu, Jeong-Ho Jeon and Jun-Hyuk Lee

Choosing textbooks for business and management education in Japan: buy, create, or translate? pp. 1020-1027

Keith Jackson

A corpus-based analysis of discourses on the Belt and Road Initiative: Corpora and the Belt and Road Initiative pp. 1028-1030

Yanli Fu

Father–daughter succession in family business: a cross-cultural perspective pp. 1030-1033

Ngwenya Sibonginkosi Bryleen

Volume 30, issue 4, 2024

Strategic orientation, innovation, and the effects of entrepreneurial support mechanism in SMEs in South Korea: an application of subject-mechanism-performance congruence model pp. 613-639

Sehoon Kim

Emerging business transnationalism in Singapore and China: governance, networks, and strategies pp. 640-666

Hong Liu and Jeremy Goh

Corporate philanthropy by foreign multinationals in developing countries in Asia: do local consumers truly matter? pp. 667-690

C. Min Han, Hyojin Nam and Sun Thit Waddi

The impacts of transformational leadership on emotional labour in Taiwanese private nonprofit long-term care institutions: the mediating role of psychological contract pp. 691-732

Chih-Jou Chen, Pei-Hsuan Tsai and Ju-Chuan Wu

Making sense out of almost nothing: entrepreneurial sensemaking and innovation in a Chinese biotechnology startup pp. 733-763

Jacky Hong, Xi Zhao and Robin Snell

The development of human resource management in Vietnam: a systematic review post-1980s pp. 764-781

Anne Cox and Chris Rowley

Hierarchical business value of post-adoption cross-border e-commerce assimilation towards innovation performance: evidence from Malaysian manufacturing SMEs pp. 782-807

Jocelyn Meiwei Koh and Yuan Liu

The influence of founders’ human capital on the performance of new technology-based firms in China, South Korea and Japan: an exploratory study pp. 808-832

Martin Hemmert, Adam R. Cross, Ying Cheng, Jae-Jin Kim, Masahiro Kotosaka, Franz Waldenberger and Leven J. Zheng

Top management support, green training and organization’s environmental performance: the electric power sector in Vietnam pp. 833-849

Thang Ngoc Nguyen, Chris Rowley, Gary N. McLean, Huong Thi Thu Nguyen and Thanh Xuan Nguyen

Foreign female English teachers in Japanese higher education: narratives from our quarter pp. 850-854

Sijia Liu

Entrepreneurship education: scholarly progress and future challenges pp. 854-857

Yuko Inada

People centric innovation ecosystem pp. 857-860

Gulnoza Ibadullaeva

Beyond the gender gap in Japan pp. 860-866

Sijia Liu

Professor Gordon Redding, 20 May 1937–17 February 2024 pp. 867-869

Chris Rowley

Volume 30, issue 3, 2024

Reforming Japanese capitalism: introduction pp. 421-432

D. Hugh Whittaker and Yoshifumi Nakata

Has Japan’s corporate governance reform reached a turning point? Some cautionary notes pp. 433-450

John Buchanan and Simon Deakin

Japan’s quest for a sustainable, virtuous circle of growth and innovation pp. 451-466

D. Hugh Whittaker

Society 5.0 and new capitalism: complementarities and contradictions pp. 467-484

Sebastien Lechevalier

The transformation of science, technology and innovation (STI) policy in Japan pp. 485-498

Tateo Arimoto

Japan’s triple sustainability challenge pp. 499-513

Tokutaro Nakai

Evidence-based policy making in Japan’s public expenditure: compatibility of fiscal health and investing for the future pp. 514-527

Nobuo Akai

Much to be done in Japan’s family and gender equality policies pp. 528-542

Nobuko Nagase

Can affirmative action overcome STEM gender inequality in Japan? Expectations and concerns pp. 543-559

Hiromi M. Yokoyama, Yuko Ikkatai, Euan McKay, Atsushi Inoue, Azusa Minamizaki and Kei Kano

Remedying Japan’s deficient investment in people pp. 560-576

Yoshifumi Nakata

The ‘new trinity’ reform of labour markets in Japan pp. 577-595

Fangmiao Zou

Japan’s ‘consensual’ variety of digital capitalism and its global relevance pp. 596-612

Harald Kümmerle and Franz Waldenberger

Volume 30, issue 2, 2024

The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative: strategic responses of governments and multinational companies pp. 209-219

Filip De Beule, Philippe De Lombaerde and Haiyan Zhang

The impact of contextual distance on the investment locations of Chinese multinationals in countries along the Belt and Road Initiative pp. 220-250

Haiyan Zhang and Filip De Beule

Chinese institutions and international expansion within the Belt and Road Initiative: firm capabilities of Chinese companies in the European Union pp. 251-273

Maria Altamira, Gaston Fornes and Alvaro Mendez

Motives behind Sino-Japanese strategic alliances in the new energy vehicles sector in the age of the Belt and Road Initiative pp. 274-299

Anna Maria Dzienis and Agnieszka McCaleb

‘Truly a European company’: a Chinese auto maker’s strategies of Europeanization pp. 300-321

Pál Nyiri, Nana de Graaff, Agnieszka McCaleb, Agnes Szunomar, Michiel Verver and Sierk Ybema

Will COVID-19 bury dreams of some overland routes of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative? pp. 322-349

Katarzyna Czerewacz-Filipowicz

Fighting monopolies: the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, India, and the competition for the marketplace of international development pp. 350-375

Amitendu Palit and Preety Bhogal

Strategic priorities for regional power connectivity in Asia in the overlapping of subregional initiatives and China’s global energy interconnection pp. 376-398

Daniel Del Barrio Alvarez, Akiko Sasakawa, Kensuke Yamaguchi and Jiyang Wang

Strategic responses of regional economic organizations to the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative: the cases of ASEAN, EAEU, and EU pp. 399-419

Philippe De Lombaerde, Kairat Moldashev, Ikboljon Qoraboyev and Servaas Taghon

Volume 30, issue 1, 2024

Decisions on subnational locations in China during the early years of WTO membership: evidence from the experience of Taiwanese affiliates pp. 1-21

Yi-Yuan Liu and Peng-Yu Li

Effect of women entrepreneurs’ gender-role orientation on new venture performance in China: the role of organizational legitimacy and obtaining investments pp. 22-48

Guofu Chen, Yanzhao Tang, Wenyi Shen, Qingquan Jiang and Rui Zhang

Activating assets of foreignness in compressed developing markets: evidence from New Zealand SMEs entering the Chinese market pp. 49-71

Antje Fiedler, Benjamin Fath, D. Hugh Whittaker and Marko Garlick

Transforming the liability of outsidership into assets of outsidership: a comparative study of Japanese automotive subsidiaries in Russia pp. 72-93

Akiko Sato and Andrei Panibratov

Attitude formation towards green products evidence in Indonesia: integrating environment, culture, and religion pp. 94-114

Dwi Suhartanto, David Dean, Fatya Alty Amalia and Ni Nyoman Triyuni

How does the holistic cognitive frame influence radical innovation in China? pp. 115-139

Zelong Wei, Paike Xie, Xi Song and Shuyang Wang

Examining the follower-related antecedents and effects of servant leadership in the PRC and Hong Kong pp. 140-171

Crystal Xinru Wu and Robin Stanley Snell

How strategic representations together with geo-political and economic dynamics are mediating the global image of Chinaʻs Belt Road Initiative pp. 173-183

Muhammad Afzaal and Swaleha Bano Naqvi

Ethical leadership in business: why it matters and how it is achieved pp. 183-192

Peihua Fan and Tingting Lu

China–US trade war and trade talk pp. 193-197

Abdullah Muhammad Aslam

Human science of disaster reconstruction: an interdisciplinary approach to holistic health following the Great East Japan earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster pp. 197-201

Keith Jackson

How to get a PhD: a handbook for students and their supervisors pp. 201-205

A. K. M. Tajkir-Uz-Zaman

China and the WTO: why multilateralism still matters pp. 205-208

Pritish Bhattacharya