Management Decision: Volume 34 Issue 9

Asia at risk: the impact of methodology in forecasting

Llewellyn D. Howell, Donald Xie

States that foreign investors have clamoured into Asia in the 1990s hoping to tap into the spectacular economic growth, but have often done so without awareness of existing or…

Singapore Incorporated: reinterpreting Singapore’s business environments through a corporate metaphor

Usha C.V. Haley, Linda Low, Mun‐Heng Toh

Uses the metaphor, Singapore Incorporated, to reframe Singapore’s government‐led development. The metaphor encapsulates stakeholders’ relationships: these relationships provide…

Financial system design in the Asia Pacific context: costs and benefits of universal banking

Anthony Saunders, Ingo Walter

Considers universal banking’s role in the evolution of national financial systems, notably with respect to their role in overall economic performance. Deals with conceptual and…

The black hole of South‐East Asia: strategic decision making in an informational void

George T. Haley, Chin‐Tiong Tan

Proposes that most managers and researchers acknowledge that emerging and newly industrialized markets do not have the same quantity of secondary data as the long‐industrialized…

Australia’s Asian business orientation: investor and intermediary

Ian Marsh

Considers the significant shift of Australian business investment from Europe and the USA to the Asian region since 1992. Reveals that over 65 per cent of manufacturing, 90 per…

Moral consideration and strategic management moves: the Chinese case

Kam‐hon Lee

States that, although it differs from that practised in the West, moral consideration is a key factor in making strategic moves for business people in Chinese society…

Innovation in South‐East Asia: lessons for Europe?

Mike Hobday

Reveals that, despite the rapid growth of Malaysia and other South‐East Asian economies, very little is known about innovation in the region. Using Malaysia as an example, the…

Strategic management of international business relationships with New Zealand: a primer for executives and investors

André M. Everett

Explains that sweeping structural reform combined with national change in attitude have dramatically altered the business environment in New Zealand. Yesterday, New Zealand was a…