Business Relationships with East Asia: The European Experience (Routledge Advances in Asiapacific Business, Vol 4)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 8
List of tables......Page 10
Notes on contributors......Page 13
Introduction Jim Slater......Page 16
Europe and the Orient Express;the impact of East Asian trade on European economies Robert Hine and Peter Wright......Page 27
Korean investment in Europe: motives and choices Sang-Kun Nam and Jim Slater......Page 53
The application of international strategic alliances to enhance competitive advantage: the experience of leading Taiwanese firms Jocelyn Chen......Page 64
Italian firms in ASEAN countries: direct investment and non-equity linkages between Asian and Italian firms Corrado Molteni......Page 80
Is Europe missing the Asia boat? An overview of EU-Asia Pacific relations Gordon Robinson......Page 88
Globalization of European enterprises: the case of East Asia Wolfgang Klenner......Page 100
Opportunities for trade and investment in South Korea Sang-Kun Nam......Page 107
Levels of culture and Hong Kong organizations Sid Lowe......Page 125
Japanese product transplants in Asia and consumer choice Yong Gu Suh......Page 141
The internationalization process and control style of MNCs: the case of Korean electronics companies Yeon Hak Kim and Nigel Campbell......Page 151
The recent changes in PRC's economic development strategy and their impact on Foreign Direct Investment in China Chen Changzheng......Page 166
The economic restructuring of the state-owned enterprises in China and the implications for European investment Weihwa Pan and David Parker......Page 186
FDI policy and inward direct investment in China Xiaohong Wu and Roger Strange......Page 214
Financial centres in the Asia Pacific Region: the prospects for Taipei Yi-Cheng Liu and Roger Strange......Page 233
The European Union and East Asia: prospects for future economic co-operation Roger Strange......Page 250
Index......Page 267