The rise of the Japanese multinational company (JMNC) marked, from the 1980s onwards, an historic change in the structure and in the dynamics of the international economy. For the first time, businesses from a non-Western nation established a competitive global presence, and they did so by bringing their advanced products and management systems to the developed economies of Europe and North America. In the last 30 years, our interpretations of JMNCs have undergone a series of revisions. Korean firms followed JMNCs in the 1990s and the Chinese likewise in the 2000s. A seeming decline in...

The Changing Face of Corruption in the Asia Pacific: Current Perspectives and Future Challenges is a contemporary analysis of corruption in the Asia-Pacific region. Bringing academicians and practitioners together, contributors to this book discuss the current perspectives of corruption's challenges in both theory and practice, and what the future challenges will be in addressing corruption's proliferation in the region.

• Includes viewpoints from both practitioners and academic contributors on corruption in the Asia Pacific region
• Offers a strong theoretical...

The Future of Chinese Manufacturing gives context and analysis on employment and labour issues in contemporary China, specifically relating to manufacturing industries.With one fifth of the world's workforce, China has taken advantage of its cheap labour to serve as the world's factory achieving stunning growth for two decades. However, in recent years, the appreciation of RMB, constant increases in minimum wage and shortages of skilled workers have diminished the original cost advantages in its labour-intensive manufacturing sector. Many large multinational corporations (MNCs),...