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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT 1
FORTHCOMING IN 2010 FORTHCOMING

3RD EDITION The Ambidextrous Organization
Creative Problem Solving The Strategic Management of Learning,
for Managers Knowledge, and Innovation
Tony Proctor, University of Chester, UK Patrick Reinmoeller, Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam,
the Netherlands
This text provides an essential introduction to the ideas and
skills of creative problem solving. It demonstrates how and Accessible and practical, this
why people are blocked in their thinking, how this impairs significant text explains key
the creative problem solving process and how creative principles, with emphasis on
problem solving techniques can help overcome these developing students’ understanding
difficulties. Theories of creative thinking are critically of organizational learning,
examined and utilised to justify the variety of techniques knowledge, innovation, and
which can be employed to discover insights into difficult ambidexterity, and combines them
management problems. with real-life company examples to
illustrate the practical application,
Using case studies and case histories, together with
utility, and limitations of concepts
extensive diagrams, examples and thought-provoking
and theories. For students of
questions, Creative Problem Solving for Managers provides
strategic management,
the most up-to-date and extensive approach to this
organizational behaviour and
important topic.
knowledge management this is essential reading.
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1. Organizations, Strategic Management, and Organizational
Learning Part 2: Learning, Knowledge and Innovation
2. Organizational Learning: The Concept and Process
FORTHCOMING IN 2010 3. Organization Learning: Routines, Strategic Management,
and Value Creation 4. Learning And Knowledge
Corporate Level Strategy 5. Knowledge, Innovation and Adaptation Part 3: The
Theory and Applications Tensions and Tradeoffs of Exploration and Exploitation
6. Exploration and Exploitation Approaches to Organizational
Olivier Furrer, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands Learning 7. Managing the Search for Knowledge in
The challenges faced by diversified corporations – firms that Multidimensional Space Part 4: The Ambidexterous
operate in more than one industry or market – have Organization 8. Combining Exploration and Exploitation
changed over the years. There is now a wide range of 9. Developing an Ambidexterous Organization
strategies, including corporate level strategy, to add December 2009: 234x156: 224pp
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developing the ability to consider the impact of change and
other important environmental forces on the opportunities
for establishing and sustaining corporate advantage by
exploring three fundamental questions:
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2 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
FORTHCOMING FORTHCOMING
The Geometry of Strategy 2ND EDITION
Concepts for Strategic Management Global Corporate Strategy and

Robert W. Keidel, Drexel University, Pennsylvania, USA Trade Policy
To excel in today’s exacting climate, organizations-both for- Alan Rugman, Indiana University, USA and
profit and not-for-profit-must integrate strategic planning Alain Verbeke
and strategic thinking. Strategic planning tends to be a
Series: Routledge Studies in International
formal activity carried out periodically by top managers, but
Business and the World Economy
it is vulnerable in the face of fast-paced change. Meanwhile,
strategic thinking is an informal activity that occurs Twenty years after the first edition of Global Corporate
continuously throughout any organization, but it tends to be Strategy and Trade Policy first published, Alan Rugman and
non-cumulative. Keidel offers a framework for integrating Alain Verbeke’s seminal book remains as relevant to an
strategic planning and strategic thinking that leverages the examination of the relationships between firms and
strengths of both. The key to his work is the application of governments as ever. As developed nations now face a sharp
simple geometric forms-especially, 2x2 grids and triangles- rise in imports from rapidly developing countries such as
that help organizational leaders and strategists structure China and India, this groundbreaking theoretical analysis of
their thinking and planning. strategic management and trade policy, with the authors’
Keidel introduces four key strategic categories-persona original framework now substantively updated and
(organizational identity), performance (what an organization extended, may indeed take on a new kind of consequence
measures), puzzle (those complex challenges that an for students and practitioners of international business than
organization faces), and pattern (how an organization it did even twenty years ago.
competes, grows, and organizes). Each of these categories Where once the core of the debate focused on the EU, the
reflects a different kind of thinking that matches a specific US, and Japan, now the so-called ’core triad’ has extended
geometry-point, linear, angular, and triangular. The payoff is to the broad regions of Europe, North America, and Asia.
a novel, powerful way to conceive, create, and communicate The volume has long offered a sophisticated analysis of the
strategy, as well as a set of conceptual lenses for ’reading’ interactions between industrial / science policy and corporate
and assessing any organization, including one’s competitors strategy. New to the second edition are extensive discussions
and potential partners. Keidel’s work is illustrated with case of innovation policy, clustering and its role in enhancing
studies from his own consulting practice and grounded in competitiveness, spill-over effects, international technology
the theoretical literature underlying the various geometries transfer, trade and investment agreements such as NAFTA,
of thinking. the deeper integration of the EU, investor state dispute, and
This book will be a valuable resource for managerial and an examination of parent/subsidy relationships within the
executive education in strategy, as well as a provocative internal network of the multinational enterprise. Additionally,
reading for organizational strategy consultants and the authors have written entirely new chapters analyzing the
thoughtful practitioners. impact of environmental regulations on corporate strategy,
large firms’ reliance on sales within their home region, and
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policy and corporate strategy. Global Corporate Strategy and
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Rugman and Verbeke and demonstrates that these models
remain required tools for contemporary scholarly analysis.
RELATED JOURNAL This new edition also provides the first serious investigation
of strategies for multinational enterprises in a world of
The Academy of Management Annals globalization and regional economic activity, and
incorporates new real world case studies into the historical
Published on behalf of The Academy of context of the volume’s original contribution.
Management September 2009: 234x156: 224pp
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and Arthur P. Brief, University of Utah, USA

Volume 3, 2009, 1 issue per year
Print ISSN: 1941-6520 Online ISSN: 1941-6067

FORTHCOMING FORTHCOMING
Strategy Execution TEXTBOOK
Andrew MacLennan, Heriot-Watt University, UK Mapping Strategic Diversity
Lively and direct, this work combines the rigour of academic Theory and Practice
research with the accessibility of practitioner-oriented texts.
Dany Jacobs, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Focusing specifically on implementation rather than strategy
development and planning, a wealth of pedagogic features, ’A superb text for students and managers alike.’ – John
including textboxes, practical models and plans as well as Hassard, University of Manchester, UK
extensive examples guide both MBA/DBA students and In Mapping Strategic Diversity, Dany Jacobs extends Henry
practising managers through this challenging yet essential Mintzberg’s work to demonstrate the genuine diversity of
subject. strategy approaches used in the real world of strategic
Departing from the more traditional themes of mainstream management.
strategy books, MacLennan brings the often neglected area Selected Contents: Introduction 1. The Essence of Strategy
of strategy implementation sharply into focus. Ranging from 2. A Few Traditional Classifications of Strategy 3. Thirty P’s for
strategic focus to the detailed management of activities to Perspective on Strategy 4. The Great Wood of Strategy
implementation for competitive advantage, this book centres 5. Where There is a Will, There is a Way 6. The Entrepreneur
on a small number of process-based models that help Deliberates, the Market Decides 7. That’s the Way We See,
managers to: That’s How We Do It 8. Everything in Continuous Movement
• systematically break down high level conceptual planning 9. Our Second Atlas of the Wood 10. Gusts of Winds on Pico
to the concrete activities necessary for physical Paradox 11. Paradoxes Relating to the Content
implementation October 2009: 234x156: 256pp
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more effectively in complex organizations.

Insightful and practical, with models supplemented
throughout by summaries of key content issues and clear
NEW
signposting to wider reading, this comprehensive and Management of International
functional text provides a new approach to strategy
implementation in a clear and easy to use format. Business Networks
Selected Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Strategic Focus Emanuela Todeva, University of Surrey, UK
3. Strategy Implementation for Competitive Advantage Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations
4. Strategy Implementation Challenges 5. Making Strategy
and Networks
Work 6. Organizational Designs, Processes and Systems
7. The Detailed Management of Activities 8. Project Fully updated and revised, this second edition builds upon
Management and Strategy Implementation 9. Conclusion the foundations of business network theory introduced in
October 2009: 234x156: 224pp Business Networks: Strategy and Structure.
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Selected Contents: 1 Introduction 2. Network Dynamics and
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Evolution 3. Managing Network Communications and
Resource Flows: Network Coordination 4. Managing
RELATED JOURNAL Cooperation and Competition in Networks: Network
Governance 5. Managing Foreign Market Entry and
Internationalisation of Business Networks 6. Managing
Technology Analysis & Strategic International Supply-Chain Networks, R&D Networks &
Management Technology Alliances and Partnerships 7. Cases of
International Business Networks
Increasing to 8 issues per year in 2009
March 2009: 234x156: 256pp
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Manchester, UK Managing Editor: Sean Rothman, eBook: 978-0-203-02827-8

UK
Volume 21, 2009, 8 issues per year

Computational Analysis of Firms’ 2ND EDITION

Organization and Strategic Behaviour Business Continuity
Edoardo Mollona, University of Bologna, Italy Management
Series: Routledge Research in Organizational A Crisis Management Approach
Behaviour and Strategy Dominic Elliott, University of Liverpool, UK,
Management and organization theories have, in the years, Ethné Swartz, Farleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey,
developed rich methodological paraphernalia to test USA and Brahim Herbane, De Montfort University, UK
hypotheses. This book addresses possible applications of Since the publication of the first edition
computer simulation to theory building in management and in 2002, interest in crisis management
organizational theory. has been fuelled by a number of
Selected Contents: Part 1: Computer Simulation as events, including 9/11.
a Research Strategy 1. Why Use Computer Simulation in
The first edition of this text was praised
Social Science? E. Mollona 2. Computational Modelling and
for its rigorous yet logical approach, and
Social Theory Bruce Edmonds 3. Computer Simulation and
this is continued in the second edition,
Mathematical Analysis in Social Sciences R. Fioresi, E. Mollona
which provides a well-researched,
& S. Paparoni 4. Mix, Chain and Replicate - Methodologies
theoretically robust approach to the
for Agent-Based Modelling of Social Systems David Hales
Part 2: Understanding Dynamics of Firms’ Strategic topic combined with empirical research
Behaviour 5. Revisiting Porter’s Generic Strategies Using in continuity management. New
System Dynamics M. Kunc 6. Analysing Theory of chapters are included on digital
Diversification Using System Dynamics S. Gary resilience and principles of risk
7. Analysing Theory of Outsourcing Using System Dynamics management for business continuity. All chapters are revised and
E. Mollona & A. Sposito Part 3: The Shaping of an updated with particular attention being paid to the impact on
Organization from Individual Behaviors 8. An Agent smaller companies. New cases include: South Africa Bank, Lego,
Based Methodological Framework to Simulate Organizations Morgan Stanley Dean Witter; small companies impacted by 9/11;
Pietro Terna 9. From Petri Nets to ABM: The Analysis of the and the New York City power outage of August 2003.
Enterprise’s Process to Model the Firm Gianluigi Ferraris Selected Contents: 1. Business Continuity in a Historical and
10. Organizational Routines and Near Decomposability in Strategic Context 2. Regulatory and Legal Issues 3. Digital
Hierarchical Structures Marco Lamieri & Diana Mangalagiu Resilience 4. Initiating and Preparing for BCM 5. Principles of
11. Organization and Strategy in Banks Alessandro Cappellini Risk Management for Business Continuity 6. Continuity
& Alessandro Raimondi Part 4: Future Developments of Analysis and Planning 7. Management of Change: Embedding
Computational Approach to the Analysis of Firms’ BCM 8. Operational Management, Testing, Incident
Strategic and Organizational Behavior 12. Rationality Management and Crisis Communications 9. Business
Meets the Tribe: Recent Models of Cultural Group Selection Continuity: Where Next
David Hales August 2009: 234x156: 272pp
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Return on Strategy Strategic Corporate

How Market Leaders Utilize Unconventional Thinking Entrepreneurship
to Sustain in the X Factor Universe Theodore T. Herbert, Crummer Graduate School of
Michael Moesgaard Andersen, Adnersen Advisory Business, Rollins College, USA
Group, Denmark and Flemming Poulfelt, August 2009: 246x174: 400pp
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More and more companies are moving into the market of
bridging the gap between differentiation and cost leadership
(the mix between Porter’s classic strategies). The new book
will discuss and extend the concept of bridge-building
strategies with disruptive effects by illustrating these
strategies with a number of well known and new examples.
September 2009: 234x156: 250pp
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eBook: 978-0-203-87348-9

Management Consulting Today Achieving a Triple Win

and Tomorrow Casebook Human Capital Management of the Employee
Enhancing Skills to Become Better Professionals Lifecycle
Edited by Larry E. Greiner and Thomas H. Olson, Edited by Joyce A. Thompsen, AchieveGlobal, USA
University of Southern California, USA and Flemming Traditionally, organizations have left human capital needs to
Poulfelt, Copenhagen School of Business, Denmark the human resources department. However, the talent
management landscape has changed. Managers have begun
This casebook complements the text Management
to recognize that attracting and employing highly talented
Consulting Today and Tomorrow. The book consists of
individuals makes an enormous impact on the company’s
twenty cases, including those from Harvard and Stanford
bottom line.
and the University of Southern California. The cases cover a
broad range of topics and practice areas that are pertinent The ‘Human Capital Cycle’ model presented in Achieving a
to current management consulting. The six parts parallel the Triple Win: Human Capital Management of the Employee
six parts in the text, including an introduction to the cases by Lifecycle presents a more systematic and comprehensive
the editors, delineating topics and issues that are critical for approach to human capital management based on the
today’s consultants. Several cases offer new insights into the author’s insight into the connection between and
practice areas of Strategy, IT, Operations Management, organization’s strategy and its human capital needs and
Change Management and more on Data Gathering and the plans. Focusing on the six stages of the employee lifecycle,
Future of Consulting. This casebook, together with the text, the book emphasises the need for a more adaptive,
will help to increase awareness among consultants and specialised approach to HRM to achieve what the author
students about skill requirements, as well as make clients calls the ‘Triple Win’ – substantial benefits for customers,
sensitive to what is demanded of them in a highly employees and the business as a whole. The book includes:
competitive consulting environment. • rich descriptions and examples
August 2009: 234x156: 448pp • details on how to plan and execute each stage
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• case studies.
Management Consulting Today This book is a useful resource for senior leaders, decision
makers, HR professionals and those responsible for talent
and Tomorrow management in the private and public sectors. Students of
Perspectives and Advice from 20 Leading HRM and management would find this an enlightening
World Experts supplementary reading.
June 2009: 234x156: 128pp
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California, USA and Flemming Poulfelt, Copenhagen Pb: 978-0-415-54835-9: £21.99 US$41.95
School of Business, Denmark eBook: 978-0-203-87520-9

This book provides a thorough examination of a variety of
specialties within the broad range of management Working on Innovation
consulting. A book of such scope and depth could only be
written by a large number of experts, each from one of the Edited by Christophe Midler, École Polytechnique,
many specialties related to management consulting. France, Guy Minguet, École des Mines de Nantes,
Together, all twenty contributors take the reader through an France and Monique Vervaeke
industry that is currently undergoing significant change.
Since the mid-1980s, the development of competitive
While covering all the major practice areas of consulting, the
strategies based on intensive innovation has deeply
book also offers new insights into change processes and
transformed the design of new products and services. The
addresses compelling management issues now facing
purpose of this book is to put forward a number of keys for
consulting firms.
understanding the ongoing dynamics for working
July 2009: 234x156: 400pp professionals in the field of innovation.
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NEW NEW
TEXTBOOK Strategic Innovation
4TH EDITION New Game Strategies for Competitive Advantage
Strategic Information Management Allan Afuah, University of Michigan, USA
Challenges and Strategies in Managing ’Although it was Joseph
Information Systems Schumpeter who taught us that
innovation is the engine of
Edited by Robert D. Galliers, Bentley University, growth in free-market
Massachusetts, USA and Dorothy E. Leidner, Baylor economies, it is Allan Afuah who
University, USA teaches us how to achieve
Today there are few organizations that competitive advantage through
can afford to ignore information strategic innovation.’ – Frank T.
technology and few individuals who Rothaermel, Sloan Industry Studies
would prefer to be without it. As Fellow and The Deedy Associate
managerial tasks become more Professor of Strategy, Georgia
complex, so the nature of the required Institute of Technology, USA
information systems changes - from In today’s fast-changing business environment, those firms
structured, routine support to ad hoc, that want to remain competitive must also be innovative.
unstructured, complex enquiries at the Innovation is not simply developing new technologies into
highest levels of management. As with new products or services, but in many cases finding new
the first three editions, this fourth models for doing business in the face of change. It often
edition of Strategic Information entails changing the rules of the game.
Management: Challenges and
From the late 1990s to today, the dominant themes in the
Strategies in Managing Information Systems presents the many
strategy literature have been strategic innovation, the impact
complex and inter-related issues associated with the
of information and communications technologies on
management of information systems. The book provides a rich
commerce, and globalization. The primary issues have been
source of material reflecting recent thinking on the key issues
and continue to be how to gain a competitive advantage
facing executives in information systems strategic management.
through strategic innovation (what Afuah calls ’new game
It draws from a wide range of contemporary articles written by
strategy’), and how to compete in a world with rapid
leading experts from North America, Asia, and Europe.
technological change and increasing globalization. Strategic
Designed as a course text for MBA, Master’s level students, and Innovation demonstrates to students how to create and
senior undergraduate students taking courses in information appropriate value using these ’new game’ strategies.
management, it also provides a wealth of information and Beginning with a summary of the major strategic
references for researchers. New to this edition are updated frameworks showing the origins of strategic innovation,
readings addressing current issues and the latest thinking in Afuah gives a thorough examination of contemporary
information management. strategy from an innovation standpoint with several key
Selected Contents: Part One: Foundations 1. Conceptual advantages:
Developments in Information Systems Strategy 2. Sustaining • focus on developing strategy in the face of change
Competitive Advantage 3. The Evolving Information
Systems Strategy 4. Approaches to Information Systems Planning • rich in quantitative examples of successful strategies, as
5. The Information Systems Planning Process well as descriptive cases
Part Two: Components of Information Systems Strategy • emphasis on the analysis of strategy, not just descriptions
6. Information Strategy 7. Information Technology Strategy of strategies
8. Information Management Strategy 9. Evaluating the
• a detailed, change-inclusive framework for assessing the
Outcomes of Information Systems Plans Part Three:
profitability potential of a strategy or product, the AVAC
Management Perspectives and Considerations 10. The CIO
(activities, value, appropriability, and change) model
Role 11. Organizational Culture 12. IT Governance
13. Strategies for Managing in Difficult Environments • emphasis on the aspects of strategy that can be linked to
14. Project Evaluation 15. IT and Organizational Performance the determinants of profitability
Part Four: Some Current Challenges 16. Knowledge • consideration of how both for-profit and non-profit
Management 17. Privacy, Property and Ethics 18. Enterprise organizations can benefit from new game strategies.
Systems 19. Exploration and Exploitation 20. ‘Best’ Practice
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NEW The Routledge Companion

User-Innovation to Creativity
Edited by Tudor Rickards, University of Manchester, UK,
Barriers to Democratization and IP Licensing
Mark A. Runco, University of Georgia at Athens, USA
Viktor Braun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Susan Moger, University of Manchester, UK
USA and Cornelius Herstatt, Technology University of
Creativity can be as difficult to
Hamburg, Germany define as it is to achieve. This is a
This book systematically identifies complex and compelling area of
the most important barriers to user- study and this volume is perfectly
innovation and critically evaluates poised to explore how creativity can
the democratization of innovation be better understood, and used, in a
argument by critically assessing the range of contexts. The book not only
main legal, economic, technological centres on creativity in wider
and societal barriers to user- organizational theory, but also
innovation for the first time and defines the conditions in which
proposing alternative possibilities. creativity can flourish, and assesses
March 2009: 234x156: 274pp how the contemporary business
Hb: 978-0-415-77719-3: £60.00 US $120.00 environment has an impact on creative solutions.
The volume grounds the concept of creativity in a sound
theoretical framework and explores issues of practical and
Organisational Capital theoretical consequence covering a range of themes,
Modelling, Measuring and Contextualising including:
Edited by Ahmed Bounfour, European Chair • innovation and entrepreneurship
On Intellectual Capital Management University • creativity and design
Paris-Sud, France • environmental influences
The most common types of intangible assets are trade • knowledge management
secrets (e.g., customer lists and know-how), copyrights,
patents, trademarks, and goodwill. This new volume • meta-theories of creativity
introduces, and critically examines organizational capital as • personal creativity
an intangible asset. • structured interventions.
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Comprising contributions written by an unusually wide array
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of leading creativity scholars, The Routledge Companion to
Creativity is an insightful and cutting edge resource. It is an
essential purchase for anyone with an interest in creativity
from a business, psychology or design perspective.
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Editor: Rune Todnem By, Queen Margaret
University, Edinburgh, UK RELATED JOURNAL
Journal of Risk Research
Official journal of the Society for Risk Analysis
Europe and the Society for Risk Analysis Japan
Editor-in-Chief: Ragnar E. Löfstedt, Kings’s
College London, UK
Managing Editor: Jamie K. Wardman, King’s
College London, UK
Print ISSN: 1366-9877 Online ISSN 1466-4461

8 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Foresight NEW
The Art and Science of Anticipating International Economics
the Future
Theo S. Eicher, University of Washington, USA,
Denis Loveridge, University of Manchester, UK John H. Mutti, Grinnell College, USA and
Foresight: The Art and Science of Michelle H. Turnovsky, University of Washington, USA
Anticipating the Future provides Thought-provoking and clearly
entrepreneurs, business leaders, explained, the new edition provides
investors, inventors, scientists, students of international economics
politicians, and many others with a and international business with a
succinct, integrated guide to rigorous explanation of global
understanding foresight studies and economic theory and policy, both
using them as means for strategy current trends and historic
development. The text dispels the developments. It explores key models
belief that anticipations are ’mere through case studies and review
guesswork’, and conveys the depth questions, enabling students to
of thought needed, implicitly or challenge the reporting of economic
explicitly, to understand human events by press and government alike.
foresight.
Split into two parts – International Trade and International
The book examines: Finance – the text explains conceptual building blocks before
• the role of foresight and its institutional counterpart in the applying them to current events and controversies. Key
modern world issues discussed include:
• the epistemology underlying foresight • the influence of transportation costs
• the need to extend foresight activity into wider spheres, • economies of scale and the new economic geography
including sustainable development • the evaluation of preferential trade agreements
• the role that foresight plays in planning processes • european Economic and Monetary Union
(including scenario planning).
• the integration of international financial markets
Much of the material in the book is based upon the
internationally known foresight course at the Manchester • international financial crises, China and other emerging
Business School’s Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) economies.
formerly PREST, which the author developed and directed Fully illustrated with tables and figures to allow students to
from 1999 to 2003. visualise the issues discussed, the lively prose gives this book
Selected Contents: Part 1: Systems and Foresight a refreshing approach. An accompanying website also
Introduction 1. Foresight and Systems Thinking: An provides context and coverage of the international financial
Appreciation 2. Foresight and Systems: Epistemology and crisis of October 2008, including the so-called ‘credit crunch’
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The Academy of Management Annals FORTHCOMING IN 2010

Volume One Finance in Asia
Edited by Arthur P. Brief, University of Utah, Salt
Institutions, Regulation and Policy
Lake City, USA and James P. Walsh, University of
Michigan, USA Qiao Liu, Paul Lejot, and Douglas Arner all at
University of Kong Kong
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Airline eCommerce Maritime Economics

Martin Stopford, Clarkson Research Studies, London
Michael Hanke, SkyHapi, Airline E-commerce
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part of the globe. Yet despite its
In 2005, US$106 billion was spent on online travel products
economic complexity, shipping retains
and services with air travel alone accounting for over US$65
much of the competitive cut and
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thrust of the “perfect” market of
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Internationalization, Technological
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in the EC and UK
Edited by Nicola De Liso, University of Lecce, Italy and
Riccardo Leoncini, University of Bologna, Italy Barry Rodger, Strathclyde University, UK and
This volume examines the fundamental dimensions of the
Angus MacCulloch, University of Lancaster, UK
recent evolution in developed economies: technological Competition law, at both the EC and
change, the so-called process of fragmentation and the UK levels, plays an important and
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FORTHCOMING IN 2010 FORTHCOMING

International Networking Large Emerging Markets
for Development Competitive Strategies
Fabienne Fortanier, University of Amsterdam, the Peter Enderwick, Auckland University of Technology,
Netherlands and Rob van Tulder, Rotterdam School of New Zealand
Management, the Netherlands The rise and continuing strong growth of emerging markets,
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strategies’ of developing countries. It provides insights into Brazil, Russia, India and China – offer both opportunities and
the effects of globalization on development and strategic challenges for international business.
lessons for policy makers. However, recently there has emerged a growing consensus
Selected Contents: Part 1: Introduction - Setting the that the increasing international competitiveness of these
Scene Introduction: Development in an Inter-Connected economies now presents major challenges for the world
World 2. The Impact of Global Actors on Development: A economy. These challenges are already evident in the form
Trade-Off between Costs and Benefits 3. An International of record commodity prices, rising food costs, growing
Network Approach Part 2: International Networks of outward investment and acquisition by LEM firms, increased
States Introduction: A Network Approach to International job insecurity and growing income inequality in developed
Relations 4. Bilateral and Regional Trade and Investment nations, and demand for a restructuring of international
Agreements 5. Bargaining in International Organizations: The institutions to reflect the shifting balance of economic power
World Bank, the IMF and the WTO 6. Informal State in the world economy. At the same time a stalling of world
Networks Aimed at Development: OPEC, Cairns, G77. trade talks, a growing recession in the West and increased
Conclusion: International Networks of States in Action reliance on selective protectionism are all impacting on the
Part 3: International Networks of Firms Introduction: A prospects for emerging economies.
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FDI and Development in the Future
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Vladimir Kvint, La Salle University, USA John B. Cullen, Washington State University, USA and
Despite the growing importance of K. Praveen Parboteeah, University of Wisconsin,
the global emerging market (GEM) Whitewater, USA
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The Global Emerging Market: environment. With a unique chapter
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recommendations on how to develop entry and exit
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David Charles Lewis, California State University, USA
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Business History decision-making, business processes, products, reputation,
advertising, communication, accounting and finance. This is
In this book, Anne Mayhew focuses on the stories a must-read for academics as well as practitioners concerned
surrounding the creation of Standard Oil and Wal-Mart, with this issue.
combining the accounts of economists with the somewhat
Selected Contents: 1. Introduction 2. From Rio to ‘Beyond
darker pictures painted by writers of fiction. Kyoto’: Synopsis of International Climate Policies 3. Beyond
2008: 216 x 138: 208pp Regulation: Voluntary Agreements and Partnerships 4. Carbon
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Control: Emissions Measurement, Targets and Reporting
eBook: 978-0-203-89438-5 5. Business Strategies for Climate Change 6. Carbon Trading
as (Compliance) Strategy 7. Innovation and Capabilities for
Climate Change 8. Dilemmas on the Way Forward
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The Routledge Companion to

Routledge Studies in International
International Business Coaching
Edited by Michel Moral, University of Paris VIII,
Business and the World Economy
France and Geoffrey Abbott, Institute of Executive
Coaching, Australia
An effective coach can help the Business and Management
business leader make sense of the
challenges and complexities of
Environment in Saudi Arabia
modern international business, Challenges and Opportunities for Multinational
unlocking the potential of both Corporations
leader and organization. This
important new Handbook offers the Abbas Ali, Elberly College of Business, Indiana
first comprehensive and detailed University of Pennsylvania, USA
introduction to the theory and Business and Management
practice of international business Environment in Saudi Arabia
coaching, drawing on the very latest provides insightful information to
academic research, as well as optimally guide western managers in
real-world examples of international best practice. conducting their operations in Saudi
This book provides practitioners and students with an Arabia. The book offers essential
innovative theoretical framework, which extends existing information on how to engage
coaching models to place coaching within cultural, effectively, manage business
organizational and group-team contexts. Contributors from activities, resolve cultural
around the world explore different perspectives and practices misunderstandings, and tackle issues
and offer practical tools to apply the theories and models to of group dynamics, human resource
the real-life business context. management, managing change and
development, and relations with the
The Routledge Companion to International Business
government and the general public.
Coaching is essential reading for all trainee business coaches,
all students of coaching theory and method, and for all 2008: 234x156: 274pp
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modern business coach.
Selected Contents: Introduction Section 1: International
Coaching Frameworks and Tools Section 2.1: Organizational The Political Economy of Oil and
Challenges and Opportunities: Individual
Section 2.2: Organizational Challenges and Opportunities:
Gas in Africa
Collective Conclusion The Case of Nigeria
2008: 246x174: 392pp
Soala Ariweriokuma, Nigerian National Petroleum
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eBook: 978-0-203-88679-3 Corporation

’A thorough study of the oil and gas industry in
Nigeria – a must-read for any potential investor.’
– Carole Nakhle, University of Surrey, UK
INSPECTION COPIES This book provides a thoroughly researched guide to the
Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry, providing students, potential
Textbooks marked ‘Available as an investors, academics and policy makers the opportunity to
Inspection Copy’ can be sent to lecturers get acquainted with various dimensions of the oil and gas
industry.
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International Trade Theory Theory and Practice of Triple Helix

A Critical Review Model in Developing Countries
Murray Kemp, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Issues and Challenges
Australia Edited by Mohammed Saad, University of the West of
A collection of essays on contemporary international trade, England, UK and Girma Zawdie
this book critiques the major theoretical components;
’This book should be read by anyone who wants to
including the Ricardian principle of comparative advantage
think theoretically and practically about the role of
and the recently developed normative analysis of
university-industry-government relations in innovation
international transfers.
and development’ – Theo Papaioannou, Development
2008: 234x156: 240pp Policy and Practice, The Open University, UK
Hb: 978-0-415-43765-3: £70.00
eBook: 978-0-203-92716-8 Contributing to the expanding literature on ’triple helix’
innovation focusing on developing countries, this volume
examines best practices from development countries and
Petroleum Taxation practical cases and experiences from Africa, Latin America
and Asia.
Sharing the Oil Wealth: A Study of Petroleum
June 2008: 229 x 152: 288pp
Taxation Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Hb: 978-0-415-47516-7: £75.00 US $150.00
Carole Nakhle, University of Surrey, UK

This book provides a framework of economic analysis which International Business and National
both governments and the petroleum industry can draw
upon in their negotiation of fiscal terms that offer a fair and War Interests
just basis of wealth allocation and encourage balanced oil Unilever between Reich and Empire, 1939-45
field development.
Ben Wubs, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
2008: 234x156: 288pp
Hb: 978-0-415-43379-2: £75.00 Series: Routledge International Studies in
eBook: 978-0-203-92789-2 Business History
This book ties together business history, the history of the
Contemporary Corporate Strategy Nazi economic administration and European history. It is
relevant to several disciplines, including international
Global Perspectives relations, economic and business history, European history
Edited by John Saee, Swinburne University of and political science.
Technology, Australia Selected Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Unilever in the 1930s
This book represents an eclectic 3. Univeler and Nazi Germany 4. War Preparations
collection of international research 5. Business as Unusual, 1939-1941 6. A Reichs Commissioner
articles and empirical studies on for the Unilever Group, 1941-1945 7. London’s Calling,
corporate strategy, intended to equip 1941-1945 8. The Aftermath 1945-1950 9. Conclusions,
readers with the latest knowledge to Appendix
understand its theoretical and 2008: 234x156: 272pp
operational complexity. Hb: 978-0-415-41667-2: £75.00 US $135.00
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International Business FORTHCOMING IN 2010

and Tourism Design Economies and the Changing
Global Issues, Contemporary Interactions World Economy
Edited by Tim Coles, University of Exeter, UK and
Innovation, Production and Competitiveness
C. Michael Hall, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
John Bryson, University of Birmingham, UK and
Series: Routledge International Series in Tourism,
Grete Rusten, University of Bergen, Norway
Business and Management
The book develops a comprehensive account of the
Whether it’s bungee jumping in relationship between design and competitiveness by
Queenstown or visiting the Guinness identifying and exploring the nature of design-based
factory in Dublin, where we travel competitive advantage. The concept of a design economy is
– and what we do when we get developed to describe countries that are increasingly creating
there - has changed significantly in competitive advantage based on design rather than price.
the past twenty years. This Design economies are explored through an analysis of
innovative textbook explores what is corporate strategies, the relationship between product and
possibly the most unrecognized of designer, design and designer biographies and design-
international service industries, centred regional and national policies.
placing tourism in the context of
Design has only recently been identified as a key competitive
contemporary globalization and
advantage and this book is the first to provide a
trade in services. It provides new
comprehensive account of the role of design in both
perspectives on tourism as a form of international business,
corporate and national competitiveness.
and the implications for firms, the state and individuals.
June 2010: 234x156: 256pp
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the key themes in each, it examines important topics such

as:
• the role of governance and regulation in tourism services FORTHCOMING
• the effects of increased global mobility on tourism Tourist Shopping Villages
entrepreneurship
Forms and Functions
• how tourism businesses are becoming internationalized
Laurie Murphy, Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna
• why other business sectors are increasingly interested
Moscardo and Philip Pearce, all at James Cook
in tourism.
University, Australia
Case studies are used throughout to highlight important
issues, from developments in the aviation industry to the rise Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism
of working holidays. This book gets to the core of a crucial This landmark volume - based on a two year research
service industry, and is essential reading for any researcher or program from a team of authors - examines the forms and
student of tourism or international business. functions of approximately fifty tourist shopping villages in
Selected Contents: Section 1: Framing International Business Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland,
and Tourism - Governance and Regulation Section 2: The Canada and the United States.
Internationalisation of Tourism Businesses Section 3: The Selected Contents: 1. Tourist Shopping Opportunities:
Internationalisation of Tourism: Practices and Processes Placing Tourist Shopping Villages in a Larger Context
Section 4: Tourism and Destinations in the Internationalisation 2. Tourist Shopping Experiences: The Shopper’s Perspective
of Business 3. A Conceptual Model of Sustainable Tourist Shopping Village
2008: 246x174: 304pp Design 4. The Importance of Location, Anchor Attractions and
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Entrepreneurs 5. Shopping Village Streetscapes, Landscapes
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and Servicescapes 6. Theming and Presentation 7. The
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8. Support Services and Facilities 9. Barriers, Challenges and
Information Needs 10. The Future of Tourist Shopping Villages
November 2009: 234x156: 192pp
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FORTHCOMING NEW
The Internationalisation of Takeovers and the European
Competition Rules Legal Framework
Brendan J. Sweeney, Monash University, Australia A British Perspective
Series: Routledge Research in Competition Law Jonathan Mukwiri, Buckinghamshire New
The widespread move towards more market-driven models of University, UK
political economy combined with the expanding Since the implementation of the European Directive on
internationalisation of business and commerce has led to a Takeover Bids, a European common legal framework governs
series of proposals for global competition rules. To date these regulation of takeovers in EU Members States. This book
proposals have been hotly contested. A critical issue is whether studies the European Community Directive on Takeover Bids,
some form of international rule-making is required, or whether first from a British perspective, but also considers the
soft law solutions are sufficient. Competition rules may be Directive in relation to the EU.
required to combat the damage done by global cartels and to Selected Contents: 1. Legal Framework of Takeover
diffuse the tensions created when more than one nation seeks Regulation 2. The Myth of Tactical Litigation in UK
to regulate the same conduct. Competition rules may also be Takeovers 3. EC Regulatory Objective I – Shareholders
required to protect the integrity of the world trading system. 4. Directors’ Duties and Takeover Regulation 5. Regulation of
International rule-making, however, presents its own problems, EC Cross-border Takeovers 6. EC Regulatory Objective II –
not the least of which is a concern with protecting national Harmonisation 7. Takeovers and Free Movement of Capital
sovereignty. May 2009: 234x156: 224pp
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international competition rules, and what form these laws
should take. Brendan Sweeney investigates various types of
competitive conduct with a view to determining the nature of
Tourism in China
the international problems they present and the possible Destination, Cultures and Communities
solutions. He takes examples from existing competition laws
Edited by Chris Ryan, Waikato Management School,
around the world, in particular the US and the EU both of
which have a long history of enforcing established competition
New Zealand and Gu Huimin, Beijing International
rules. He also examines existing unilateral, bilateral and Studies University, China
multilateral approaches. Based on this investigation, the book Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism
proposes a minimum set of global rules.
This book provides a voice to
This research work will be of great interest to postgraduates Chinese mainland academic
and scholars and specialists in competition law, trade law researchers and examines the nature
and the globalisation of business rules. of tourism research and tourism
Selected Contents: Part 1: Introduction 1. Introduction development in China. This
Part 2: The Nature and Importance of Anti-Competitive authoritative text on tourism in
Activities 2. Private Trade Barriers 3. Export Cartels China will be of interest to scholars
4. International Cartels 5. International Single Firm Conduct and students of tourism throughout
Part 3: Application of Existing Measures to the world.
Anti-Competitive Conduct 6. Unilateralism 7. Cooperation Selected Contents:
8. WTO Rules 9. Solutions Part 1: Destination Change and
August 2009: 234x156: 416pp Planning Part 2: Destinations and
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Cultural Representations
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Part 3: Community Participation and Perspectives
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22 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ASIAN BUSINESS
Tourism and Innovation Chinese Business

Michael C. Hall, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Landscapes and Strategies
and Allan Williams, London Metropolitan University, UK Hong Liu, University of Manchester, UK
Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, China has been the fastest growing
Tourism and Mobility economy in the world over the past
Tourism is often described as an twenty years, and its influence in the
industry with high growth rates, and global economic and political arena
it is subject to radical change in how is becoming increasingly stronger; it
it is produced and consumed. is expected that China will soon
However, there is still a relatively become the second largest trading
poor understanding of how such nation in the world.
changes are brought about – that is, Other books cover only part of this
through innovation. This book is the growing picture, and the analysis
first to provide a comprehensive and understanding of Chinese
review of innovation in tourism, enterprises and competitors has
while also considering how tourism been lacking until now. This key book provides a
itself contributes to innovative local, comprehensive, practical guide to business in China,
regional and national development featuring both theoretical/academic and practical
strategies. perspectives. With a strong focus on the ways in which
This is a groundbreaking volume which provides an language, traditional thought and stratagem culture
accessible introduction to a key but neglected topic. It influence how Chinese do business, this book offers a
provides a readable account of the multidisciplinary research complete view of industry structures and the competitive
on innovation and relates the emerging theoretical landscape, thus providing a framework for Western
framework to tourism. A clear conceptual framework is companies to develop successful business and marketing
complemented by fifty boxes which provide a range of strategies.
illustrative international case studies. Broad-ranging and informative, Chinese Business:
2008: 234x156: 280pp Landscapes and Strategies can be used as a textbook for
Hb: 978-0-415-41404-3: £90.00 US $180.00 undergraduates and postgraduates at business schools, as
well as a reference book for those on senior executive
programmes and for consultation on particular aspects of
MAJOR WORK: 5-VOLUME SET business in China.
Cross-Cultural Management Selected Contents: 1. Changing Business Landscape
2. Chinese Business Structure: Past and Present
Edited by Tim G. Andrews, University of Strathclyde,
3. Competitive Patterns of Chinese Companies 4. Rules of
UK and Richard Mead Game and Strategies for Western Businesses 5. Managing
Series: Critical Perspectives on Business and Channel Strategies 6. Mergers & Acquisitions 7. Prospects of
Management Future Competition
2008: 246x174: 224pp
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Perspectives on Business and Management, this is a five Pb: 978-0-415-40309-2: £27.99 US $54.95
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cross-cultural management.
April 2009: 234 x 156: 2356pp
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Editors: Chris Rowley, City University, London, UK
and Malcolm Warner, University of Cambridge, UK
Print ISSN 1360-2381 Online ISSN 1743-792X

ASIAN BUSINESS 23
NEW Working in Asia Series

China in the World Economy
Edited by Zhongmin Wu, Nottingham Trent
University, UK FORTHCOMING
Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
The Changing Face of Management
This book, based on extensive in China
original research by a wide range of
leading experts, examines many key Edited by Chris Rowley, Cass Business School, London
issues connected to China’s University, UK and Fang Lee Cooke, University of
economic growth and its impact. Manchester, UK
Subjects covered include: growth
The main aim of this book is to
and inequality; labour market
examine a range of areas of Chinese
reforms; technological innovations;
management in the context of the
employment, unemployment and
local political, economic and social
training; and the search for
traditions and the global economy.
ecologically sustainable economic
development. According to some commentators,
some elements of management are
Selected Contents: Introduction:
universal while other aspects are
China in the World Economy Zhongmin Wu Part 1: Three
unique to a given context. Moreover,
Decades of Economic Growth 1. Structural Changes and
much of what we know about
the Transition Process of China Alberto Bagnai and Christian A.
Mongeau Ospina 2. Do Sentiment Indicators Help to Assess Chinese management today is
and Predict Actual Developments of the Chinese Economy? drawn from studies conducted with
Aaron Mehrotra and Jouko Rautava 3. Supporting China’s quantitative methods and at macro
GDP with Ecologically Efficient Ultra-high Speed Freight level. Less is known of managers in China in managing
Transport Systems John Kidd and Marielle Stumm 4. Dynamic specific issues at work. This book adds to the existing body
Evolution of Regional Growth Disparity in China: Evidence of knowledge by analysing current key strategic, as well as
from 1978 to 2005 Ru Zhang 5. Growth, Inequality and functional areas and issues facing Chinese managers trying
Poverty in China Gopal Krishna Pal Part 2: Labour Market to compete more effectively in the global market. In
Reform 6. The Impact of Technology Adoption on addition, the ‘voice’ of local managers is heard.
Employment: Exploration from the Perspective of Selected Contents: 1. Introduction 2. HRM 3. Marketing
Manufacturing Industry in Transitional China Guangjie Ning 4. Managing Supply Chains 5. Finance 6. Changes and
7. Evaluating Job Training in Two Chinese Cities Benu Bidani, Restructuring 7. Public Sector 8. Entrepreneurship 9. MNCs
Niels-Hugo Blunch, Chor-ching Goh, and Christopher O’Leary 10. Management in Hong Kong 11. Conclusion
8. Job Search with Non-participation Teng Ge 9. Youth November 2009: 234x156: 256pp
Unemployment in Urban China Zhongmin Wu Hb: 978-0-415-46333-1: £95.00
Part 3: Sustainable Development and Policy 10. Openness Pb: 978-0-415-46332-4: £29.99
and Productivity in China M.J. Herrerias and Vicente Orts
11. Private Sector Development in Anhui Province – The
Impact of Regional Spillovers from Jiangsu Province Genia FORTHCOMING
Kostka 12. Does Public Ownership Really Help? - China’s TVE
Development and the Change of Ownership Structure Jiannan The Changing Face of Vietnamese
Guo 13. Developing a Corporate Social Responsibility in China Management
- The Impact of Government Regulations, Market Orientation
and Ownership Structure Riliang Qu 14. Technological Edited by Chris Rowley, Cass Business School, London
Entrepreneurship: Regional Variations and Impacts of University, UK and Quang Truong
Entrepreneurship Policy Gang Zhang, Xuebing Peng and Jun Li This book will examine a range of areas of Vietnamese
15. Efficient and Equitable Compensation of Agricultural Land management in the context of the local political, economic
Conversion: Theory and an Application for China Xiuqing Zou and social traditions and the global economy.
and Arie J. Oskam. Concluding Remarks
Selected Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Human Resource
March 2009: 234x156: 344pp
Management 3. Finance 4. Marketing 5. Operations
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6. Strategy 7. Investment/Foreign Direct Investment

8. Entrepreneurship/SME Development 9. Women and
Gender 10. Public Sector/SOE 11. Conclusion
Hb: 978-0-415-47604-1: £75.00

24 ASIAN BUSINESS
NEW The Changing Face of Korean

The Changing Face of Management Management
in Thailand Edited by Chris Rowley, Cass Business School, London
University, UK and Yongsun Paik, Loyola Marymount
Edited by Tim Andrews, University of Strathclyde, University, Los Angeles, USA
UK and Sununta Siengthai, Asian Institute of
Part of the successful Routledge
Technology, Thailand
‘Working in Asia’ series, The
In the decade following the Asian Changing Face of Korean
financial crisis of 1997-1998, the Management focuses on a country
management of organizations in that is predicted by some experts to
Thailand has undergone significant become the world’s third richest by
change and development. The 2025. South Korea, with its thriving
Changing Face of Management in telecommunications and automotive
Thailand examines in-depth the industries, and increasing trade links
development of management during with China, survived the 1997 Asian
this pivotal period in the country’s Economic Crisis better than most.
recent history. This important textbook explores the
The book draws together an key areas of management in this
impressive assortment of scholars, pivotal country in the region, including:
consultants and practitioners, whose • human resource management
experience and expertise significantly enhance our
• marketing
knowledge and understanding of this complex, multi-faceted
Asian economy. The book is divided into 3 main sections: • operations
• an examination of the political, economic, social and • finance
technological changes from 1997-2008 • strategy
• specialist chapters that contextualise these developments • overseas affiliates
from the marketing, HR and finance perspectives
• small firms and entrepreneurship
• concluding sections focusing on public sector
• women.
organizations, women managers, corporate governance, e-
communication and the ‘Thailand Brand’. Including case studies and interviews with front-line Korean
managers to enable a real ‘voice’ to emerge, and written by
June 2009: 234x156: 352pp
Hb: 978-0-415-44331-9: £95.00 native academics, this is a complete analysis of the current
Pb: 978-0-415-44332-6: £29.99 state of management structures in South Korea. It is
eBook: 978-0-203-87834-7 important reading for all students of business and
management interested in Asia.
Selected Contents: 1. Introduction Part 1: Functional
The Changing Face of People Areas 2. Human Resources 3. Marketing 4. Operations
Management in India 5. Finance 6. Strategy Part 2: Key Issues for
Management in South Korea 7. Public Sector 8. Small
Edited by Pawan S. Budhwar, Aston Business School, Firms/Entrepreneurship 9. Chaebols 10. Expatriates/Overseas
UK and Jyotsna Bhatnagar, Management Workers 11. Women in Management 12. Conclusion
Development Institute, India 2008: 234x156: 256pp
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resource practices in India, the Pb: 978-0-415-77401-7: £27.99
relevant literature on this subject eBook: 978-0-203-87195-9
remains scarce. This book seeks to
fill the critical gap in the literature by
providing a thorough understanding
of the changing face of Indian HRM
systems.
2008: 234x156: 336pp
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ASIAN BUSINESS 25
The Changing Face of Women FORTHCOMING

Managers in Asia Business Innovation in Asia
Edited by Chris Rowley, Cass Business School, London
Knowledge and Technology Networks from Japan
University, UK and Vimolwan Yukongdi, Central
Queensland University, Australia Dennis McNamara, Georgetown University, USA
This book examines the influence of Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
culture and tradition on The central concept of this volume, ’knowledge networks,’
organizational and management refers to interactive linkages around nodes of tacit and
practices and how these affect the codified knowledge embedded in Global Value Chains. Such
progress of women in management networks can be distinguished by the process or format of
in Asian economies. It explores information exchange, the organization of the networks
which organizational and within firms, and by target market or product.
management practices are universal,
and which are culture specific, and Selected Contents: 1. Business, Knowledge, and Networks
how these in turn affect the 2. Insulation versus Regional Integration 3. Commerce and
advancement / representation of the East Asian Community 4. National Interest versus Regional
women in the Asian region. Innovation 5. Electronics Sector: Global Modules and Local
Minds 6. Automotive Sector: Global Models and Local Minds
Selected Contents: 1. The Changing 7. Textiles and Fashion: Global Designs and Local Minds
Face of Women Managers in Asia: Issues and Challenges 8. Mapping Knowledge Networks
2. The Changing Face of Women Managers in China
July 2009: 234x156: 208pp
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5. The Changing Face of Women Managers in Malaysia
6. The Changing Face of Women Managers in Singapore
7. The Changing Face of Women Managers in South Korea FORTHCOMING
8. The Changing Face of Women Managers in Taiwan
9. The Changing Face of Women Managers in Thailand Changes in Japanese
10. The Changing Face of Women Managers in Vietnam Employment Practices
11. Conclusion
2008: 234x156: 288pp Beyond the Japanese Model
Hb: 978-0-415-43766-0: £90.00 Arjan Keizer, University of Bradford, UK
Pb: 978-0-415-43767-7: £28.99
eBook: 978-0-203-89246-6 Series: Routledge International Business in Asia
This book examines changing employment practices in
Japan, focusing on the position of the Japanese firm that is
confronted with the need to address the changing economic
circumstances while also maintaining some fit with the wider
set of institutions that govern the Japanese labour market.
Selected Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Not Without Lifetime
Employment 3. Economic Interpretations of Japanese
Employment Practices 4. The Inevitability of Change
Part 2: Developments at Specific Firms 5. The Prevalence
of Existing Practices 6. Modularised Production and New
Competition 7. Dealing with a Shrinking Market 8. The
Importance of Non-Regular Employment
Part 3: Interpretations of Change 9. Seikashugi: The
Transformation of Japanese Internal Labour Markets
10. Continued Duality in the Japanese Labour Market 11.
Understanding Employment Practices In- and Outside Japan
12. Epilogue
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26 ASIAN BUSINESS
Industrial Innovation in Japan China in the Wake of Asia’s

Edited by Takuji Hara, Norio Kambayashi and Financial Crisis
Noboru Matsushima, all at Kobe University, Japan Edited by Wang Mengkui, China Development
This new book gathers together a collection of case studies Research Foundation, Beijing, China
of innovation in various industries in modern Japan,
challenging accepted notions of Japanese innovation and
emphasizing new and diverse trends and practices. This book examines China’s response
Selected Contents: 1. Introduction Takuji Hara, Noboru to the Asian financial crisis of 1997,
Matsushima and Norio Kambayashi 2. The Social Shaping of both in its immediate aftermath and
Technological Paths: Antibiotics in Japan Takuji Hara in the years since. Based on research
3. Institutional Change and the Emergence of an Electronics conducted by the China
Transaction in the Japanese Manufacturing Industry: Beyond Development Research Foundation,
the Dichotomy of Technical Efficiency and Social Legitimacy in one of China’s leading think-tanks,
Institutions Noboru Matsushima, Mitsuhiro Urano and Takuya this book includes contributions from
Miyamoto 4. Technological Innovation Induced by Tacit senior policy makers in the Chinese
Scientific Knowledge: Research and Development in the Mirai government.
Semiconductor Project Yuji Horikawa 5. Development of the Selected Contents: Part 1: China’s
Carbon Fiber Business in Toray Katsuo Tohma 6. Reorganizing Macroeconomic Management
Mature Industry through Technological Innovation: De-Maturity after the Asian Financial Crisis
in Watchmaking Industry Junjiro Shintaku and Kotaro Kuwada 1. From Overcoming Deflation to Preventing Inflation Liu He
7. Innovation Impacts on the Digital Device Industry Munehiko 2. From Proactive to Sound Fiscal Policy: An Improvement to
Itoh 8. New Product Development beyond Internal Projects: A China’s Public Finance System Jia Kang 3. Renminbi Exchange
Case of Joint New Product Development Shin’ich Ishii Rates and Relevant Institutional Factors Yi Gang 4. China’s
9. Application of Japanese Production Methods to the Service Policy of Opening Up in the Decade After the Asian Financial
Sector Takashi Matsuo 10. Emerging Competitive Value in Use Crisis Long Guoqiang Part 2: China’s Financial System and
Materiality: The Negotiated Transformation of Business Reform of State-owned Enterprises after the Asian
Systems with Regard to the Online Securities Market in Japan Financial Crisis 5. Reform of State-owned Commercial
Kosuke Mizukoshi and Noboru Matsushima 11. Analysis of Banks: From Disposing of Non-performing Assets to
the Innovation Process Created through the Management of Institutional Reform Liu Chunhang 6. System Reform of
Business Incubators in the Japanese Content Industry Misanori China’s Capital Market Qi Bin and Huang Ming 7. Reform of
Takahashi 12. Industrial Innovation under the Influence of State-owned Enterprises: A Three-Year Disconnect from
Japanese Culture Norio Kambayashi Difficulties Leads to System Innovation Zhang Delin 8. China’s
2008: 234x156: 272pp Rural Reform and Development after the Asian Financial Crisis
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Han Jun Part 3: Restructuring China’s Social Welfare
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Zhang Li Part 4: Reflections on the Asian Financial Crisis
and China’s Opening up to the Outside 13. The 1997
Asian Financial Crisis: Review and Reflections Bai Chong-En
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China’s Rise in the World ICT Industry Chinese Business Enterprise

Industrial Strategies and the Catch-Up An Introduction
Development Model Hans Hendrischke, University of New South
Lutao Ning, University of Cambridge, UK Wales, Australia
Series: China Policy Series Chinese Business Enterprise examines practical business and
management issues in the context of China’s changing
China is the world’s largest ICT exporter, having overtaken institutional framework and the internationalization of
Japan, the European Union and the United States, and China’s economy. The author explains the general operating
China’s ICT industry is the largest manufacturing sector environment for business enterprises in China and examines
within the Chinese economy. This book examines how China issues such as the reforms to the Chinese economy,
has attained this leading position in one of the most capital increased marketization, foreign trade and business services,
and high technology intensive industries. as well as different forms of business enterprise (state-
Selected Contents: Part 1: Industrial and Trade owned, private, etc.)
Development: The Role of the State during Globalization With a series of case studies examining core business
1. Introduction 2. Trade and Market Liberalisation, Economic
functions such as research and development, operations
Growth, and Industrial Policies: The State Role in Economic
management, production, distribution, marketing and
Development Part 2: The Development Pathway of the
human resources within the Chinese context, this book
ICT Manufacturing Industry 1949-1993: Creation, Reform
provides a valuable guide to the main operational areas of
Rationales and Development Context 3. The Creation of
business enterprise in China including both domestic and
the Electronics Industry: Military Driven Development
1949-1978 4. The ’Opening Up’ Reform and State-led foreign funded enterprises.
Growth 1978-1993 Part 3: Making the ICT sector a ‘pillar’ Selected Contents: 1. China’s Economy and the State
industry: China’s Catching-up strategies since the early 2. Industries and Markets 3. Foreign Trade 4. Business
1990s 5. Big Business Strategy and Small and Medium Services 5. State-Owned Enterprise (SOEs) 6. Private
Enterprise Strategy 6. ’Attracting-in’ and ’Walking-out’ Trade Enterprises (Including Collective Enterprises) 7. Foreign
and Investment Strategy 7. The ’Breaking-Through’ Strategy Invested Enterprises 8. Research and Development
of China’s ICT Industry: Dynamic Technological Catching-up 9. Marketing 10. Production 11. Distribution 12. Controlling
and Challenges in Developing the Semiconductor Sector 13. Human Resources Management 14. Chinese Business
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Development Experience
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FORTHCOMING
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A Guide to Economic and Political Developments
Chinese Entrepreneurship in a
Ian Jeffries, University of Wales, Swansea, UK
Global Era
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Edited by Raymond Sin-Kwok Wong, University of Developments in Asia
California, Santa Barbara, USA
This book provides a detailed overview of contemporary
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Doing Business in India
Doing Business in China
Edited by Pawan S. Budhwar, Aston Business School,
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Aimed specifically at Western and economy, there is an urgent need for a comprehensive guide
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The authors guide the reader Selected Contents: Part 1: The Indian Business Context
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FORTHCOMING NEW
Economic Liberalisation and Turkey Expansion of Trade and FDI in Asia
Togan Sübidey, Bilkent University, Turkey Strategic and Policy challenges
Series: Routledge Political Economy of the Middle Edited by Julien Chaisse, World Trade Institute,
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The Everyday Impact of Economic

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Good Governance in China - A Way

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Hainan - State, Society, and Business Innovation in Japan

in a Chinese Province Emerging Patterns, Enduring Myths
Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard, Copenhagen Business School Edited by Keith Jackson, SOAS, University of London,
Asia Research Centre, Denmark UK and Phillipe Debroux, Soka University, Japan
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NEW FORTHCOMING
Law for Foreign Business and Management Training and
Investment in China Development in China
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Australia University of Cambridge, UK
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One of the critical issues facing both the Chinese
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FORTHCOMING Transforming Corporate Governance

Road Map of China’s Rise in East Asia
Edited by Curtis Milhaupt, Columbia University, USA,
Angang Hu, Center for China Study, Beijing
Kon-Sik Kim, Seoul National University, South Korea
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Ping Wang, University of Nottingham, UK

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