Development Models, Globalization and Economies
A Search for the Holy Grail?
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Coordinating Parisian Urban Transport
A large research project has been initiated by the French government gathering together a consortium of industrial firms (transport companies, intermediaries, software companies) and researchers to study the i...
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The Future of Knowledge Management
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Trust: Reason, Routine, Reflexivity
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Futures—and Still More Complexity
At the sharp end of business under the Anglo-American rules, and others, there is an annual need to file accounts to show to the public that the firm is correctly managed and its resources correctly assessed. ...
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The Complex Competition for Relevance?
We are all different on this planet — the flora, the fauna and ourselves — the humans. Observably we perceive different genders, our skin tones, and we find some of us are tall others short, chubby or slim: so...
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Infrastructure and Productivity in Asia
Political, Financial, Physical and Intellectual Underpinnings
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Infrastructures: The Difficulty in Forecasting
In this brief chapter we wish to offer concluding remarks, and draw together some of the themes presented by our authors. First of all we think it ought to be simple to forecast … and thus create an adequately...
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Infrastructure and Its ‘Sticky’ Interconnections: Perspectives from Asia
This book is about infrastructure in Asia. Even though Asia has become the growth engine of the world it still lacks a backbone similar to that of the US and the advanced nations of Europe when we review the p...
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Building Trust in Asian Business
The World Economic Forum unveiled a survey on perceptions of trust prior to its 2003 Annual Meeting in Davos, when its chosen theme was ‘Building Trust’. The survey results show clearly that the level of trust...
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The Role of Trust in the Process of Alliance Evolution
This chapter examines the role of trust in the development of cross-cultural alliances. We argue that trust building constitutes an inseparable part of interorganizational learning processes, and is crucial fo...
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The ‘Oppression’ of Governance?
This book is focused upon the governance of firms in Asia. It is a concept that must be extended to include all forms of ‘venturing’ since co-joining firms seem to create conflicts between ‘us and them’ even i...
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The Realization of Meanings: Understanding Expatriates’ Needs in the Asian Post-crisis Environment
Throughout Asia, many firms have been worrying about the external factors of the economic crisis. Such external factors like the foundations of economic policy and the efficiency of the finance sector are almo...
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Organisational Learning is Dead! Long Live Organisational Learning!
Most of the developed countries have very low birth rates — lower than they need to sustain their current population. It has been argued that the globe has too many people, but it was never argued that the nat...
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Improving Cross-Cultural Projects through Better Communication
The trend for businesses to become global is widespread and with it has come the need to manage cross-cultural projects. This adds to the difficulties project managers already face in achieving successful outc...
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The Learning Organization: The Case of the Japanese RHQs in Europe
In 1992 and 1993 we undertook interviews with Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of European Regional headquarters (RHQs) of Japanese companies situated in the U.K. and in continental Europe.
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Some Experiences with the Teaching of Decision Support Systems to Management Students
There are essentially two schools of thought regarding the function of decision support systems. One is that the main purpose is to support the decision-maker in whatever style of decision-making he or she wis...
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Globalisation through Localisation: Reflections on the Japanese Production Subsidiaries in the United Kingdom
During 1980 a survey of the Japanese production subsidiaries in the UK was undertaken by Kidd and Teramoto. The results were published in Englishl and Japanese.2 Other related papers are by Kidd (1983,3 19824 and...
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The Strategic Evaluation of R & D Projects Through the use of Vert
New product development is always fraught with difficulties. The innovation may not be understood, it may be resisted by competitive forces or it may be mismanaged through poor research into the process of inn...
