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Encyclopedia of International Asia-Pacific Business Series Shadows Across the Golden Land Economics and Global Trade Guanxi and Business Myanmar’s Opening, Foreign Influence and (In 3 Volumes) (3rd Edition) Investment by ( Institute of Editor-in-chief: Francisco L Rivera-Batiz by Yadong Luo (University of Miami, USA) Simon S C Tay International Affairs, Singapore) (, USA) This book delineates social and cultural principles Edited by Mariana Spatareanu (Rutgers University, and philosophies underlying guanxi dynamics, What are the political and economic challenges USA) & Can Erbil (Boston College, USA) along with guanxi’s social norms that have been facing Myanmar as it opens to the world? And long embedded in the Chinese society. Although what are the opportunities and responsibilities This three-volume Encyclopedia provides a guanxi is embedded in almost every part of social for the international community to influence and comprehensive and up-to-date overview of also invest in the country? the theory and evidence on the causes and life in China, companies demonstrate different consequences of global trade, and the theory and needs and capacity toward guanxi cultivation. This book aims to provide readers with an evidence on the economics of international trade, Chinese firms develop guanxi as a strategic assessment that integrates analysis with on- financial and monetary transactions. mechanism to overcome competitive and resource the-ground experience and insights, drawn from disadvantages by cooperating and exchanging closely engaging with Myanmar since the country It provides, first of all, a comprehensive set of favors with government authorities and other entries explaining the key theoretical concepts began to move toward democracy and open stakeholders. This book presents an integrative in international economics as well as the latest to the world. In order for readers to appreciate framework about guanxi development according empirical and simulation techniques used in emerging trends and developments, the book to institutional, strategic, and organizational the academic literature. In addition, various evaluates the efforts of the recent Thein Sein entries present the history behind — and the factors. It further articulates how foreign firms administration and current National League of controversies surrounding — the core current adaptively develop their own legitimate and Democracy government up to the present day. global trade and monetary institutions, from effective guanxi in China’s highly dynamic and It also identifies key events from the colonial the World Trade Organization to the European complex environment. period through to the decades when the country Monetary Union. Key Features was under military rule, cut off from much of the international community. The on-going crisis in The three volumes also provide a serious • The book is not merely novel but integrative, Myanmar’s Rakhine State and the controversial discussion of today’s central policy debates, showing a holistic picture of knowledge of including the impact of globalization on situation of the Rohingya are examined at length, guanxi, from social philosophies and cultural employment, wages and income distribution, the with an effort to contextualize these events in imposition of controls on international financial backgrounds to economic and social analysis wider challenges of geo-politics and national flows, the effects of tariffs and protectionist of guanxi, from organizational behaviour and reforms to rehabilitate the government and the policies, fixed versus flexible exchange rate practices to working guidance to build and economy. regimes, and the role of the multinational maintain guanxi The book presents readers with a clear view of enterprise on global growth, technical change and • This edition adds numerous updates on both income distribution, among many others. how the country might progress beyond current scholarly development and working practices obstacles, and highlights the opportunities that Undergraduate and graduate Readership: about guanxi. It also updates most minicase remain for those willing to engage constructively students, researchers and policymakers interested examples of the 2nd edition for the longer term in the opening of this frontier in globalization, international economics and economy and once-pariah state.. international finance. Readership: Students, managers and academics in economics, finance, operations research, Readership: Myanmar watchers and those with 1044pp May 2020 management and business sociology. a casual interest in the region. 978-981-120-053-3 (set) US$980 £860 Introductory Offer US$850 £750 426pp May 2020 150pp Jun 2020 till Jul 31, 2020 978-981-121-054-9 US$118 £105 978-981-3273-54-2 US$45 £40

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WSPC-ZJUP Series on World Scientific Reference on China’s Regional Development China’s Regional Asia-Pacific Trade Policies (In 2 Volumes) edited by Kym Anderson (University of Adelaide, Australia Economic Development & Australian National University, Australia) A Case Study of Wenzhou Key Features by Jinchuan Shi (Zhejiang University, • Each of the two volumes starts with a thorough China), et al. analysis of where protectionism had got to in This book studies the institutional East Asia and Australia by the early 1980s, and change and economic development then how it has changed in the 35 years or so in Wenzhou since China’s reform since then and opening-up. It concludes that the most important • Those policy changes in the past 3 or 4 decades characteristic of Wenzhou model is that the city is the first to have been generally liberalizing, but there are early signs of increasing promote industrialization and urbanization by privatization and agricultural protection in some emerging Asian economies. After analysing marketization in Zhejiang. This book also contains the stories the causes and effects of those recent worrying signs, alternative policy of the people of Wenzhou. measures for dealing with genuine social concerns are proposed • The authors of the studies in this reference work are among the world’s 364pp May 2020 most cited in this field 978-981-3279-58-2 US$128 £115 1544pp Feb 2020 Introductory 978-981-3274-66-2 (Set) US$545 £480 Offer Series on Chinese Economics Research Introductory Offer till Apr 30, 2020 US$495 £435 The Great Transformation Supply-side Structural Reform Advanced Research on Asian Economy and Economies of Other Continents - Vol 11 by Xiaohe Ma (Academy of Macroeconomic Research, China) Development Strategies of Open Economies Key Features Cases from Emerging East and Southeast Asia • Focuses on the supply-side by Frank S T Hsiao & Mei-Chu Wang Hsiao structural reform, elaborates (University of Colorado, Denver, USA) on how to implement it, how “The Pacific Basin is the region where economic dynamism is to better promote it, and most acutely observed in the world. The authors, identifying provides ideas and sugges- the short as well as long run nature of time series with their tions for those who are interested in this topic superb expertise in Asian economics, mathematical economics • Contributed by famous and influential researchers and econometrics, not only clarify the time series structures of in the field of economics from China interdependence among countries with international trade and investments, but also reveal the strategic interactions among macroeconomic policies of exports, foreign direct 196pp Apr 2020 investment and economic growth in East and Southeast Asian economies.” 978-981-120-933-8 US$88 £75 Koichi Hamada Fellow, Econometric Society Leadership Tuntex Emeritus Professor of Economics, Yale University Political-economic, Regional Business Dept. of Economics (Economic Growth Ctr, Koerner Ctr, Yale, CT. USA and Socio-Community Contexts 350pp Apr 2020 edited by T W Lim (Soka University, 978-981-120-540-8 US$118 £105 Japan) & Carol Ma (Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore) China’s Continued Reforms in a New Era Their Impact on Chinese Foreign Direct Investments and Key Features RMB Internationalization · First handbook on by Xugang Yu (Dentons Law Offices, China), et al. managing political interactions or/and understanding political This book studies the new economic and financial reforms China leadership theories and concepts is adopting to advance its economy, and the policies behind the · Useful for understanding the role of government in Chinese Outbound Direct Investment (ODI). The book explores businesses, local communities and societies in East the new wave of reforms, especially in the financial sector, Asia together with President Xi Jinping’s vision for a shared future for · Includes Asian perspectives on leadership and mankind together with his explanation on the “new Era”. In fact, conceptual and applied contents on the way China is entering a “New Era” and transforming its economy into political leadership influences business leadership a more sophisticated one, upgrading the industrial sector and introducing specific and in a country dedicated reforms in the SOEs (State Owned Enterprises) to render them more efficient and allow them to compete fairly at the international level. 200pp Apr 2020 978-981-121-322-9 US$88 £75 336pp Mar 2020 978-981-121-264-2 US$118 £105

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