Books in the Routledge International Business in Asia series

Examines cross-cultural management within multinational enterprises, focusing on how cultural differences influence the transfer of knowledge between different units within individual corporations. This book shows how knowledge is accepted differently in Europe and Asia and which factors have the strongest impact on efficient knowledge transfer.

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.

Examines the theory and practice of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in countries across Asia, including China, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and Bangladesh, providing Asian perspectives on this important issue. Arguing that Western CSR has enjoyed limited effectiveness, this book asks whether Asia can avoid the West's mistakes.

A comprehensive examination of the role of foreign direct investment in East Asia before and after the financial crisis of mid-1997.

This is a comprehensive examination of the role of foreign direct investment in East Asia before and after the financial crisis of mid-1997.

The idea of corporations exercising corporate social responsibility has spread from the West and is now firmly embedded in Asian countries and in Asian corporations. The latest trend in corporate social responsibility, evident also in Asia, is for corporations to apply corporate social responsibility to local communities and to those at the bottom of the social hierarchy. This book explores corporationsΓÇÖ social responsibility engagement with local communities in a range of Asian countries. It provides examples of corporate social responsibility in a wide range of industrial sectors, focuses extensively on "social enterprises" and on governmentsΓÇÖ and corporationsΓÇÖ schemes to encourage them, considers how relations with employees and with local workforces fit into the pattern of corporate social responsibility, and discusses the question as to how far corporations engage with local communities as a way of developing new markets for their products.