Asian Studies Catalog 2012

The Asian Economy

Spearheading the Recovery from the Global Financial Crisis

By Dilip Das

The global financial crisis of 2007-09, and the Great Recession that it engendered, were both a challenge and an opportunity for Asia. The region not only remained unharmed by the global financial crisis initially but also recovered the fastest. In addition, it was also the principal driver of the...

Published July 20th 2011 by Routledge

Globalisation and Advertising in Emerging Economies

Brazil, Russia, India and China

By Lynne Ciochetto

Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

Brazil, Russia, India and China are four of the largest and most dynamic contemporary emerging economies in the world. Strong economic growth in each of these economies has been accompanied by the expansion of the advertising and consumer goods sectors. Using a series of country studies, this book...

Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge

Manufacturing Enterprise in Asia

Size Structure and Economic Growth

By Dipak Mazumdar, Sandip Sarkar

Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

Issues relating to the size of firms in manufacturing are central to the discussion of development strategies. This book offers an interpretation of growth trajectories in selected Asian economies in terms of the size-structure of enterprises in the manufacturing sector of these economies. The book...

Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge

Taxation in ASEAN and China

Local Institutions, Regionalism, Global Systems and Economic Development

Edited by Nolan Sharkey

Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

China and the ASEAN region have risen rapidly to a position of immense economic significance in the global economy. Academics, policy makers and businesses are all keen to understand more about taxation in China and ASEAN, and this work seeks to address this key issue by providing a comprehensive...

Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge

New Models of Human Resource Management in China and India

By Alan R. Nankervis, Fang Lee Cooke, Samir R. Chatterjee, Malcolm Warner

Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the similarities and differences of contemporary human resource management systems, processes and practices in the two increasingly important economic great powers in Asia. It covers the full range of human resource management activities, including...

Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge

The East Asian Computer Chip War

By Ming-chin Monique Chu

Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

The semiconductor industry is a vital industry for military establishments worldwide, and the control of, or loss of control of, this key industry has enormous strategic implications. This book focuses on the globalization of the strategic semiconductor industry and the security ramifications of...

To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge

Marketing Management in Asia

Edited by Stanley Paliwoda, Tim Andrews, Junsong Chen

Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

Asia is no longer simply the continent to which the world turns for outsourcing and off shoring of production, leaving retailing to Western countries. Asia now contains many of the world’s largest markets plus many emergent markets as well. North America is fast ceding ground to China as the world’...

Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge

Migration and Inequality

Edited by Tanja Bastia

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

The ‘migration-development’ nexus has emerged as an important area of both research and policy over the last ten years. However, most of the interest has focused on the potential that migration holds for poverty alleviation. Relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between...

Published February 10th 2013 by Routledge

Finance in Asia

Institutions, Regulation and Policy

By Qiao Liu, Paul Lejot, Douglas W. Arner

Series: Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance

Asia’s demand for second-generation financial institutions and markets needs to be met in order for the region’s further development to be sustained. This book provides a compelling, fact-based assessment of current practices and regulations in Asia’s financial institutions and markets and...

Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge

Backpacker Tourism and Economic Development

Perspectives from the Less Developed World

By Mark P. Hampton

Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

There has been a phenomenal growth of backpacker tourism from the overland routes to India in the 1960s, to present-day backpacker tourism across the less developed world. As a result there has been significant economic development impacts of backpacker tourism upon local communities especially in...

Published April 8th 2013 by Routledge

East Asia and the Global Crisis

Edited by Shaun Breslin

This book traces the impact of the global financial crisis on East Asia, and the way that key regional states responded to the crisis. It considers the extent to which the region is decoupling from the global economy (or the West), the impact of crises on the definition of "region", and the...

Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge

The Global Economic Crisis and East Asian Regionalism

Edited by Saori Katada

Regional cooperation in East Asia on various issue areas, such as emergency liquidity mechanisms in finance, the exponential growth of free trade agreements and policy coordination on the environment and public health, developed rapidly after the Asian Financial Crisis. A decade later, the global...

Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge

Innovation and Learning Experiences in Rapidly Developing East Asia

Edited by Rajah Rasiah, Thiruchelvam Kanagasundram, Keun Lee

Technology and technical change is sector- and industry-specific, embedded by locational institutions and organizations, and integrated in global networks. It is non-linear in its emergence and movement, and subsumed in the nature of micro, meso and macro interactions. Using evolutionary theory and...

Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge

Managing Across Diverse Cultures in East Asia

Issues and challenges in a changing globalized world

Edited by Malcolm Warner

Why ‘Managing across diverse cultures in East Asia’? We re-examine in this book the link between culture and management across the region vis a vis the new economic, political and social landscape that has appeared over the last decade. We accordingly present a set of chapters on East Asian...

Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge

Managing Across Diverse Cultures in East Asia

Issues and challenges in a changing globalized world

Edited by Malcolm Warner

Why ‘Managing across diverse cultures in East Asia’? We re-examine in this book the link between culture and management across the region vis a vis the new economic, political and social landscape that has appeared over the last decade. We accordingly present a set of chapters on East Asian...

Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge