Introduction: Big business in Asia / Chris Rowley, Malcolm Warner -- Asian network firms: An analytical framework / Peter J. Buckley -- The conditional relevance of corporate governance advice in the context of Asian business systems / Gordon Redding -- Business goals and corporate governance / Geert Hofstede -- Big business in South Korea: The reconfiguration process / Chris Rowley, Johngseok Bae -- 'Late development' experience and the evolution of transnational firms in the People's Republic of China / Malcolm Warner, Ng Sek Hong, Xu Xiaojun -- Internal corporate governance discipline and the HRM system in large Japanese companies / Philippe Debroux -- From a 'barren rock' to the financial hub of East Asia: Hong Kong's economic transformation in the coordinating perspective / Fu-Lai Tony Yu -- Equity-for-debt swaps in Chinese big business: A case study of restructuring in one large state-owned enterprise / Russell Smyth, Junli Wang, Xin Deng -- The impact of the Asian financial crisis on human resource management in Malaysia / Wendy Smith, Asma Abdullah -- Globalization strategies of South Korean electronics companies after the 1997 Asian financial crisis / Seung-Ho Kwon, Dong-Khee Rhee, Chung-Sok Suh -- Business strategy, government and globalization: Policy and miscalculation in the Korean electronics industry / Robert Fitzgerald, Young Chan Kim -- Dynamic capabilities of Japanese and Korean enterprises and the 'Flying Geese' of international competitiveness / Pradeep Kanta Ray ... [et al.] -- Big business in Asia: Coverage, themes and prospects / Chris Rowley, Malcolm Warner

1. Business enterprises -- Asia
2. Competition -- Asia
3. Corporations -- Asia
4. Financial crises -- Asia
5. Asia -- Economic conditions -- 1945-