Management Decision: Volume 35 Issue 8

East Asia as an independent engine of growth: prospects and implications for managers

Kong‐Yam Tan

States that since the mid‐1980s, substantial deregulation and competitive liberalization of the South‐East Asian economies in their trade and investment regimes has resulted in…

A strategic perspective on overseas Chinese networks’ decision making

George T. Haley

Researchers and managers have assumed that the overseas Chinese business networks do not conduct strategic planning. Summarizes, in general, the literature on the overseas Chinese…

When the tourists flew in: strategic implications of foreign direct investment in Vietnam’s tourism industry

Usha C.V. Haley, George T. Haley

Emphasizes that tourism forms the largest industry in the world and the Vietnamese Government has targeted it for strategic foreign direct investment (FDI). Notes although…

Defending against MNC offensives: strategy of the large domestic firm in a newly liberalizing economy

Ranjan Das

States that waves of liberalization are blowing across developing countries leading to the creation of new opportunities for multinational corporations (MNCs). Proposes that, MNCs…

An examination of strategic foreign direct investment decision processes: the case of Taiwanese manufacturing SMEs

Ho‐Ching Wei, Chris Christodoulou

Proposes that due to the worsening business environment in Taiwan in the 1980s many manufacturing enterprises, the majority being labour‐intensive small and medium‐sized…

Skills for successful international assignments to, from and within Asia and the Pacific: implications for preparation, support and training

Gary Fontaine

First makes the case that effective preparation, support, and training for international assignments to, from or within Asia and the Pacific need to be based on sound models of…