Asia Pacific Business Review

1996 - 2025

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

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Volume 28, issue 5, 2022

After the storm: how Hong Kong can hold on to its status as a global business hub in the Asia-Pacific pp. 629-640

Tai-lok Lui, Ingyu Oh and Chris Rowley

Still in command and control? Hong Kong’s headquarters economy in the changing global and regional context pp. 641-659

Tai-lok Lui

Geopolitics and Hong Kong as international financial centre: a dynamic IPE perspective pp. 660-679

Gregory T. Chin

The economy of the Sino–US conflict: its impact on Chinese firms listed in the US and Hong Kong as a financial hub pp. 680-700

T. K. P. Leung and Lawrence H. W. Lei

Trading as usual? Navigating Hong Kong’s roles in global trade architectures pp. 701-718

Yu-wai Vic Li

The Sinicisation of the Hong Kong economy or the Hongkongnisation of the Greater Bay Area: are we ‘barking up the wrong tree’? pp. 719-739

Godfrey Yeung and Tai-lok Lui

Hong Kong’s economic integration with Chinese mainland: an index and cointegration analysis of socio-economic indicators pp. 740-764

Geng Cui and Yuho Chung

Volume 28, issue 4, 2022

Does technology innovation in finance alleviate financing constraints and reduce debt-financing costs? Evidence from China pp. 467-492

Han Chen and Soon Suk Yoon

Empirical research on how social capital influence inter-organizational information systems value co-creation in China pp. 493-517

Mingming He, Tienan Wang, Houxue Xia and Jing Dai

Exploring an inverted U-shaped relationship between entrepreneurial experience and Chinese new venture performance: the moderating role of environmental uncertainty pp. 518-535

Shan Lu, Biaoan Shan and Yupeng Fei

The impact of the talent management mechanism and self-perceived talent status on work engagement: the case of Japan pp. 536-554

Nobutaka Ishiyama

How configuration theory explains performance growth and decline after Chinese firms cross-border M&A: using the fsQCA approach pp. 555-578

Cong Cheng, Ze Yang, Yining He and Lulu Yan

Which executive characteristics influence risk-taking behaviours: evidence from Taiwanese companies pp. 579-605

Yen-Chih Huang, Yang-Chieh Chin and Cheng-Yu Lee

Is there a gap between saying and doing in CSR? Cases from Asian firms pp. 606-615

Peihua Fan and Mingjun Hou

The business reinvention of Japan: how to make sense of the new Japan and why it matters pp. 616-617

Paul F. Gentle

The profits and perils of passion in entrepreneurship: stoking the fires and banking the coals pp. 618-620

Keith Jackson

Entrepreneurship in Korea: from chaebols to start-ups pp. 621-623

Yuko Inada

Towards ecosystem-oriented business models in the Asia Pacific: dialectical dynamics of digital technologies, nature, and human wellbeing pp. 625-627

Chris Rowley

Volume 28, issue 3, 2022

Enhancing online–merge–offline (OMO) marketing effectiveness and sustainability – Tao and shared value perspectives: examples from China pp. 311-332

Xianglin Ma, Alan Fish, Xinxin Wang and Tao Tang

SMEs’ changing perspective on international trade credit risk management in China: a cultural values evolution approach pp. 333-353

Jiang Zhou, Ling Deng and Paul Gibson

Dynamic capabilities and entrepreneurial performance of Chinese start-ups: the mediating roles of managerial attitude towards risk and entrepreneurial behaviour pp. 354-379

Zhe Shi, Ling Yuan and Soo Hee Lee

How informational-based readiness and social influence affect usage intentions of self-service stores through different routes: an elaboration likelihood model perspective pp. 380-409

Chih-Jou Chen, Pei-Hsuan Tsai and Jia-Wei Tang

Hong Kong millennials’ perceptions and preferences on joint promotion partners pp. 410-430

Fanny Fong Yee Chan

How does customer psychological empowerment affect value co-creation? An empirical study of travel agencies in Mainland China pp. 431-459

Xiaoping Hu and Xi Li

Sustainable human resource management: strategies, practices and challenges pp. 460-464

Keith Jackson

Handbook of distance education pp. 464-466

Asmaa Benbaba

Volume 28, issue 2, 2022

Towards a new corporate responsibility and governance? Tax haven and other identity characteristics of Asia-Pacific​ multinational corporations pp. 157-164

Yama Temouri, Vijay Pereira, Chris Jones, Ashish Malik and Chris Rowley

The rise of China and contestation in global tax governance pp. 165-186

Rasmus Corlin Christensen and Martin Hearson

Exploring the role of institutions in Chinese OFDI: a systematic review and integrative framework pp. 187-213

Michael Christofi, Demetris Vrontis and Anna Makrides

Exploring the use of offshore intermediary jurisdictions by Chinese MNEs for the purposes of ‘onward-journey’ transit FDI: implications for measuring and understanding Chinese MNE activity pp. 214-234

Dylan Sutherland, Jamie Hurst, Xinghao Peng and Ludan Wu

How does firm ownership concentration and female directors influence tax haven foreign direct investment? Evidence from Asia-Pacific and OECD countries pp. 235-259

Ali Ahmed, Yama Temouri, Chris Jones and Vijay Pereira

Executive remuneration and firm financial performance: lessons from listed companies in Australia and implications for their APEC counterparts pp. 260-272

Albert Wijeweera, Peter Rampling and Ian Eddie

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: challenges, doubts and legal implications pp. 273-286

Muhammad Afzaal

Mentoring and coaching early career academics in the Asia-Pacific region: opportunities to develop individual resilience? pp. 287-296

Keith Jackson

Education in Japan: a comprehensive analysis of reforms and practices pp. 297-298

Paul Gentle

Routledge handbook of contemporary Japan pp. 298-301

Matthias Hennings

Enterprises, industry and innovation in the People’s Republic of China: questioning socialism from Deng to the trade and tech war pp. 301-307

Anwei Gu, Biaoan Shan and Xingqun Lv

East Asia in transition pp. 308-309

Gordon Redding

Volume 28, issue 1, 2022

Corporate governance reforms amidst economic maturation and democratization: the case of the Korean chaebol since the 1990s pp. 1-15

YongWook Jun, Chris Rowley and Ingyu Oh

The end of rent sharing: corporate governance reforms in South Korea pp. 16-37

Ingyu Oh, Soon Suk Yoon and Hyo Jin Kim

Successors’ discretion and corporate restructuring in family firms in South Korea: from an institutional perspective pp. 38-64

JungYun Han

The shadow of a departing CEO: outsider succession and strategic change in a business group pp. 65-86

Changsu Kim, Jong-Hun Park, Jiyoon Kim and Youngjoo Lee

Remains on the board: outside directors’ behaviour and their survival chance in Korean firms pp. 87-110

Taeyoung Yoo and Yunsung Koh

Transforming Korean business? Foreign acquisition, governance and management after the 1997 Asian crisis pp. 111-129

Robert Fitzgerald and Ji Woong Kang

Prospects for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): implications, assessment and challenges pp. 130-139

Muhammad Afzaal

Research handbook of diversity and careers pp. 140-146

Keith Jackson

Striving for inclusive development: from Pangkor to a modern Malaysian state pp. 146-148

Rajah Rasiah

Transnational corporations and international production: concepts, theories and effects; Organizational change pp. 148-152

Keith Jackson

Dare to inspire: sustain the fire of inspiration in work and life pp. 152-154

Michele Ruzon and Gilmar Masiero

Own your day: new light on the mastery of managing in the middle pp. 154-156

Keita Kakehashi