scholarly journals Coping with Growth Transitions: The Case of Chinese Family Businesses in Singapore

2001 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wee-Liang Tan ◽  
Siew Tong Fock
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Growth Transitions ◽  
National Boundaries

Families control more than half of the corporations in East Asia (World Bank, 1999; World Bank, 1998). The contribution of family businesses to Asia's economic growth is predicated upon successfully growing their businesses. Many family businesses in East Asia, spanning countries such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia, are Chinese owned and managed. Some claim that these businesses will never develop into full-fledged multinational enterprises because of their cultural heritage (Redding, 1990). However, some Chinese family businesses have successfully made the transition. This paper presents an in-depth study of five Chinese family businesses in Singapore that have successfully made the transition in growth and size and across national boundaries and family generations. Their business empires extend into the Asia Pacific region. This paper highlights the key success factors of these five noteworthy family businesses that enabled them to make these growth transitions.

Family Business

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-76
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
North America ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

‘Internet Review’ identifies relevant and useful Internet-based information sources and reviews Websites related to entrepreneurship and innovation. This issue's article reviews interesting Websites on family business. The greatest part of the wealth of the UK and the USA lies with manager-owned or family-controlled businesses. Family businesses comprise over 75% of all businesses in the UK and 80–90% of those in North America. Chinese family businesses also play a major role in the economic development of China and South-east Asia.

scholarly journals Bay of Bengal‐East Asia‐Pacific Teleconnection in Boreal Summer

2019 ◽  
Vol 124 (8) ◽  
pp. 4395-4412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruowen Yang ◽  
Shu Gui ◽  
Jie Cao
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Boreal Summer

Regional Governance in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific

East Asia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 321-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasumasa Komori
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Regional Governance ◽  
Asia Pacific

scholarly journals Security expertise and international hierarchy: the case of ‘The Asia-Pacific Epistemic Community’

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 494-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Björn Jerdén
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Social Order ◽  
International Security ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Epistemic Community ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
The Political ◽  
Regional Stability ◽  
General Explanation

AbstractMany states partially relinquish sovereignty in return for physical protection from a more powerful state. Mainstream theory on international hierarchies holds that such decisions are based on rational assessments of the relative qualities of the political order being offered. Such assessments, however, are bound to be contingent, and as such a reflection of the power to shape understandings of reality. Through a study of the remarkably persistent US-led security hierarchy in East Asia, this article puts forward the concept of the ‘epistemic community’ as a general explanation of how such understandings are shaped and, hence, why states accept subordinate positions in international hierarchies. The article conceptualises a transnational and multidisciplinary network of experts on international security – ‘The Asia-Pacific Epistemic Community’ – and demonstrates how it operates to convince East Asian policymakers that the current US-led social order is the best choice for maintaining regional ‘stability’.

Institutional complexity and family business development: a case study of the Charoen Pokphand group

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Wang ◽  
Qiang Liang ◽  
Lihong Song ◽  
Erming Xu
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
Institutional Complexity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Equal Importance ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Dominant Period

Purpose With features of both “family” and “business,” family businesses must seek a balance between the emotional aspect of “family” and the economic aspect of “business” in its organizational and decision-making processes to ensure the sustainability of the family’s entrepreneurship. This study aims to focus on how internal institutional complexity combined evolves alongside the growth of the family business. Design/methodology/approach The research looks, from the perspective of institutional logic, into the Charoen Pokphand Group, which is an epitome of overseas Chinese family businesses and proceeds to build a model of family business growth in the context of institutional complexity. Findings The research finds that as a family business grows, institutional complexity inside the organization would change from aligned period to sustaining period and then to dominant period. Then further elucidates the process of proactive response in different stages of the development of a family business. Attaching equal importance to the cultivation of entrepreneurship and to the continuation of family values and culture is the crucial mechanism by which Chinese family businesses seek a balance between family logic and business logic. Originality/value This paper unveils the change of institutional complexity in the evolution of family businesses and the process of action of its agency as an organization, and simultaneously partly reveals the features of entrepreneurship that overseas Chinese family businesses have as they grew, which is of positive significance for exploring and building a path of growth unique to Chinese family businesses.

Wars and Rumours of War, 1918-1945: Japan, the West and Asia Pacific

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Buckley
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
General Public ◽  
British Literature ◽  
North China ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
The West

Supported by an in-depth Introduction and contextual analysis, this six-volume set complements Series I (1918-1937 – From Armistice to North China), addressing the history between 1938 and1945. Despite the widespread operation of war-time censorship and surveillance, publishers in the West and, to a lesser degree in East Asia, put out a range of material that remains of considerable value to later generations. Some of the texts selected are undeniably partisan but the quantity of the published material (and to some extent its quality) left the general public with a vast and varied archive of printed matter that deserves to be consulted and debated by today's researchers and students. Greater attention is given to American and British literature rather than Chinese or Japanese simply by virtue of the practical realities.

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