Taiwan heeft vele bezetters gekend. De Portugezen hebben er gezeten en daarna de VOC, het heeft lang bij China gehoord en vervolgens bij Japan, om na de Tweede Wereldoorlog verstrikt te raken in de Chinese Burgeroorlog, wat uitliep op een militaire dictatuur die tot ver in de jaren tachtig zou duren. De afgelopen decennia heeft het eiland zich opgewerkt tot een goed functionerende democratie en een onmisbare technologische supermacht. Maar de onafhankelijkheid van Taiwan wordt al decennia ...

This casebook demonstrates that the future of global business lies in how well the multinational landscape is charted and how the importance of Asian market leaders is deeply embedded in it. It offers international management students and researchers an extensive guide to the business history, strategy development, and foreign market entry modes used by emerging Asian multinationals. The cases focus on well-known companies such as Lenovo, Alibaba, Infosys, Huawei, Panasonic, and Rakuten. T...

Many people in the West portray Japan as being fixed in its ways, and unable to change, and consequently risking national decline and international loss of prestige. However, in fact, Japan is at present in a significant transition period, comparable to the Meiji Restoration of 1868 or the period immediately after the Second World War. This transition period comes with a mixture of events and situations which are difficult to interpret both for foreign as well as domestic commentators and ...