Handbook of Asian Management

Our understanding of management in Asia has not kept pace with the demands of managers and students. The Handbook of Asian Management provides in-depth critical reviews of central topics in strategy and organizational behavior research in Asian contexts.

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HANDBOOK OF ASIAN MANAGEMENT Edited by Kwok Leung City University of Hong Kong And

Steven White INSEAD, France and Singapore

KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS NEW YORK, BOSTON, DORDRECHT, LONDON, MOSCOW

eBook ISBN: Print ISBN:

1-4020-7932-X 1-4020-7754-8

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword John Child

vii

Preface Kwok Leung and Steven White

xiii

Part I. 1.

2.

Taking Stock and Charting a Path for Asian Management Research Kwok Leung and Steven White

3

Etic and Emic Approaches to Asian Management Research Jai B. P. Sinha

19

Part II. 3.

4.

5. 6.

7.

Introduction

Strategy

Towards the Development of Strategy Theory: Contributions from Asian Research Kulwant Singh

53

Context, Configuration and Capability: Organizational Design and Competitive Advantage in Asian Firms Michael Carney and Eric Gedajlovic

85

Firm Diversification in Asia Lu Yuan, Garry Bruton and Hailin Lan

129

The Asian Multinational Corporation: Evolution, Strategy, Typology and Challenges Nitin Pangarkar

155

Asian Entrepreneurship Research: A Profile and Assessment John E. Butler, Stephen Ko and Wai Chamornmarn

207

8.

The Double-Edged Sword of Organizational Culture in Asia: Toward Transnational Reflexive Dialogues Nobuyuki Chikudate 245

9.

Western and Asian Business Ethics: Possibilities and Problems Daryl Koehn and Alicia S.M. Leung 265

Handbook of Asian Management

vi

Part III. 10.

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Organization Behavior: East and West Oded Shenkar

295

11.

Keeping Others in Mind: The Very Social Cognition of Asian Managers 315 Zhixing Xiao and Steven K. Su

12.

Work Motivation in Asia: Review and Future Directions Chun Hui, Jessica Y. Y. Kwong and Cynthia Lee

349

Leadership Research in Asia: Developing Relationships Dean Tjosvold, Alfred Wong and Chun Hui

373

13. 14.

Intercultural Communication and Effective Decision Making: Contributions to Successful International Business Ventures 397 Richard W. Brislin and Brent R. Mac Nab

15.

In the Eye of the Beholder: Culture and the Perception of Organizational Justice Mara Olekalns

415

Conflict Management in Asia: A Dynamic Framework and Future Directions Catherine H. Tinsley and Susan E. Brodt

439

A New Perspective on Diversity and Group Dynamics in Asia Hun-Joon Park and Sang-Hyeon Sung

459

Human Resource Management in Asia: Understanding Variations in Human Resource Practices Using a Resource Exchange Perspective K. Yee Ng and Soon Ang

475

16.

17. 18.

Biographical Sketches

507

Author Index

515

Subject Index

539

FOREWORD

John Child Birmingham Business School Univ

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