Asia Pacific Business Review

1996 - 2025

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

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Volume 6, issue 3-4, 2000

Global labour? Issues and themes pp. 1-14

Chris Rowley and John Benson

Why ideology dominates regional trade unionism in the Asia Pacific pp. 15-33

Keith Abbott

Challenging APEC: the Asia Pacific labour network and APEC's human resource development working group pp. 34-53

John Price

Organized labour in the borderless world: globalization, deregulation and union strategy in Australia pp. 54-73

Richard Hall and Bill Harley

Last line of resistance or a golden opportunity: Australian trade union responses to globalization pp. 74-92

Tim Harcourt

Globalization, non-standard employment and Australian trade unions pp. 93-113

John Burgess

Japanese trade unions at the crossroads: dilemmas and opportunities created by globalization pp. 114-132

John Benson and Philippe Debroux

Globalization and labour rights: the case of Korea pp. 133-153

Dong-One Kim, Johngseok Bae and Changwon Lee

Globalization, labour market deregulation and trade unions in Singapore pp. 154-173

Yuen Chi Ching and Lim Ghee Soon

Globalization and Hong Kong's labour market: the deregulation paradox pp. 174-192

Ng Sek Hong and Chris Rowley

Multinational corporations and trade union development in Malaysia pp. 193-213

Mhinder Bhopal and Patricia Todd

Labour unions, globalization and deregulation in Thailand pp. 214-238

John Lawler and Chokechai Suttawet

Globalization, labour and the state: the case of Indonesia pp. 239-259

Uedi Hadiz

Globalization, China's free (read bonded) labour market, and the Chinese trade unions pp. 260-281

Anita Chan

The challenges and opportunities for the trade union movement in the transition era: two socialist market economies -- China and Vietnam pp. 282-299

Ying Zhu and Stephanie Fahey

Globalization, labour and prospects pp. 300-308

Chris Rowley and John Benson

Volume 6, issue 2, 1999

Policy transfer and policy inertia: privatization in Taiwan pp. 1-20

David Parker

Japanese business culture: the government, mainstream enterprises and ‘mavericks’ in the steel industry pp. 21-28

Etsuo Abe

Ecological dynamics of industrial organizations in South Korea pp. 29-43

Hyuk-Rae Kim

Cultural effects in East Asian strategic decision-making pp. 44-58

Robert Phelps and Oui Krabuanrat

A new entrepreneurial drive in large and small manufacturing firms in Japan pp. 59-73

Philippe Debroux

International business and management encyclopedia and handbooks pp. 74-76

Chris Rowley

Volume 6, issue 1, 1999

Managed in Hong Kong: economic development, competitiveness and deindustrialization pp. 1-12

Chris Rowley and Robert Fitzgerald

From entrepot to entrepot via merchant manufacturing: adaptive mechanisms, organizational capabilities and the structure of the Hong Kong economy pp. 13-32

Mick Carney and Howard Davies

Hong Kong as a complex adaptive system pp. 33-55

Paul Ellis

The demand for business and management education in Hong Kong beyond 1997 pp. 56-72

S.K. Victor Lee

The generation of organizational commitment in a cross-cultural context pp. 73-103

Aimee Wheaton

Comparing international human resource management practices between Yaohan and Jusco in Hong Kong pp. 104-122

May Wong and C. Hendry

Hong Kong's development: prospects and possibilities pp. 123-131

Chris Rowley and Robert Fitzgerald

Beyond management: the paradox of Hong Kong's economic advances pp. 132-137

Chris Rowley and Ng Sek Hong

Volume 5, issue 3-4, 1999

Introduction: China's Managerial Revolution pp. 1-10

Malcolm Warner

Communitarian Capitalism: A ‘Market’ Model for China? pp. 11-28

Douglas N. Ross

Managerial Adaptation in a Transitional Economy: China pp. 29-46

Jan Selmer, Carolyn Erdener, Rosalie L. Tung, Verner Worm and Denis F. Simon

The Politics of Management in People's China: From CMRS to Modern Enterprise and Beyond pp. 47-72

Paul L. Forrester and Robin S. Porter

Guanxi and Salesforce Management Practices in China pp. 73-93

Roger Bennett

Management in the Chinese Construction Industry pp. 94-118

Ping Lan

Transferring Ownership-specific Advantages to a Joint Venture in China pp. 119-146

Simonetta Ilari and Adrienne La Grange

Managing Corporate Networks from America to China pp. 147-180

John Child and Sally Heavens

Managerial and Organizational Learning in Chinese Firms pp. 181-203

Yanni Yan

Motivation to Manage in China: Implications for Strategic HRM pp. 204-222

Bahman P. Ebrahimi

The ‘Myth’ of Human Resource Management in Chinese Enterprises pp. 223-237

Malcolm Warner, Keith Goodall and Daniel Z. Ding

Conclusions: Implications for Employment, Organization and Society pp. 238-246

Malcolm Warner

Asia Pacific Economic Development: The Significance of the Market, the State, and Society pp. 247-249

Judith Hollows

Book Reviews pp. 250-251

Chris Rowley

Book Reviews pp. 252-254

Paul Ellis

Book Reviews pp. 254-254

Robert Lee

Book Reviews pp. 255-256

John Street

Book Reviews pp. 256-257

J.R. Slater

Book Reviews pp. 257-258

Gitte Heij

Book Reviews pp. 258-259

Richard T. Phillips

Book Reviews pp. 259-260

Conrad Lashley

Book Reviews pp. 260-261

D. Hugh Whittaker

Book Reviews pp. 261-262

Jian Zhang

Book Reviews pp. 262-264

David Bennett

Volume 5, issue 2, 1998

Introduction: arresting development -- East Asian FDI and regional change pp. 1-15

Philip Garrahan and John Ritchie

Fast but fragile: British restructuring for foreign direct investment in a global era pp. 16-35

Louise Amoore

The road from Nissan to Samsung: a historical overview of East Asian investment in a UK region pp. 36-58

Marie Conte-Helm

East Asian FDI and the UK periphery pp. 59-94

Ian Stone

Working miracles? regional renewal and East Asian interlinkages pp. 95-110

John Ritchie

East Asian investment and reinvestment in the 1990s: implications for regional development pp. 111-131

Carol Burdis and Frank Peck

East Asian FDI and the political economy of local development pp. 132-160

Andrew Pike and John Tomaney

Managing culture and the manipulation of difference: a case study of second-generation transplant pp. 161-182

Ian Roberts and Tim Strangleman

The transformation of employment relations in the UK's old industrial regions: a regional comparison of the experience of Japanization pp. 183-200

Andrew Cumbers

Deciphering the East Asian crisis pp. 201-219

Jeffrey Henderson, Noriko Hama, Bernard Eccleston and Grahame Thompson

Volume 5, issue 1, 1998

Institutions and knowledge: The dilemmas of success in the korean electronics industry pp. 1-28

Martin Kenney

Are the newly industrializing economies rivals for the European union in trading with China? pp. 29-44

Limin Wang, Roger Strange and Jian Chen

Co-operation and competition in the rise of the Japanese cotton spinning industry, 1890--1926 pp. 45-70

W. Miles Fletcher

Determining the future challenges in industrial relations management in Singapore: A Delphi approach pp. 71-91

Chow Siu Lan Maria, Yaw Debrah and J. Barton Cunningham

China watching pp. 92-97

Malcolm Warner