
Big in Asia
25 Strategies for Business Success
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 10. October 2002
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-333-98511-3 (ISBN)
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Description
Companies operating in post-crisis Asia find themselves confronted by obstacles that hinder development and progress. This book by two analysts identifies the transformation of the competitive landscape in Asia. By focusing on the main difficulties faced by companies, it provides a series of strategies for business success and shows how to avoid failure in Asia. This is a guide for companies who wish to make it big in Asia.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
652 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-98511-3 (9780333985113)
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MICHAEL BACKMAN is an Author, Business Analyst and Consultant who specialises in Asian Corporate practice and has a reputation for thorough, independent and highly detailed Asian business analysis. He has a monthly Asian business column with Asia Inc magazine and a fortnightly column with the Melbourne Age newspaper and has authored numerous articles for The Times, International Herald Tribune, Asian Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review and the Business Times of Singapore. He is the author of the international bestseller, Asian Eclipse that was named by the Economist as one of the sixteen finest general non-fiction books published for the year. - CHARLOTTE BUTLER is Research Studies Manager at INSEAD's Euro-Asia Centre. Her extensive research output over the last ten years has centred on a range of management issues in the Asia-Pacific region covering strategy, marketing and organisational development. She has published over forty case studies and articles used by professionals and students. She is the co-author of Managers & Mantras with John Keary and the author of a forthcoming book, Dare to Do, the story of PT Astra International. One of her most recent cases was a winner of the 2001 International MBA Case Competition.
Content
Part I: HIT THE GROUND RUNNING - Strategy 1: Information is Power - Strategy 2: Know the Firm, Know the Family: Dealing with Asian Firms - Strategy 3: Understand Asia's Overseas Chinese - Strategy 4: Understand Asia's Overseas Indians - Strategy 5: Dealing with Information Ambiguity, Local Consultants & Accounting Firms - Part II: ON THE GROUND - Strategy 6: Network like a Local; Negotiate like a Westerner - Strategy 7: Taking the M&A Route? - Strategy 8: Managing the Partnership with the Southeast Asian Firm - Strategy 9: Managing the Partnership with the Northeast Asian Firm - Strategy 10: Avoid Post-Acquisition Trauma - Part III: BUILDING UP - Strategy 11: Send the Right People - Strategy 12: Cross the Cultural Divide - Strategy 13: Managing Change - Strategy 14: Intellectual Property Abuse: Contain the Risks - Strategy 15: Selling Consulting Services in Asia - Part IV: STAYING UP - Strategy 16: Tilt the Playing Field - Strategy 17: 'Think Global; Act Local' - but how far? - Strategy 18: Caveat Emptor: Beware the Banks of Asia - Strategy 19: Avoid Blood Loss as a Minority Shareholder - Strategy 20: China! Cut through the Gloss - Part V: STAYING CLEAN - Strategy 21: Negotiate the Law in Asia: Bankruptcy, Contracts & Defamation - Strategy 22: Ethical Traps on the Road to being Big in Asia - Strategy 23: Corruption: The Business Practice that Dare not Speak its Name - Strategy 24: Dancing with the Devil: Doing Business with Asia's Politicians and their Families - Strategy 25: When things go Wrong...