Emerging Multiplicity

1. Introduction
Sten Söderman

Part I. Corporations and Governments are Making Major Adjustments to Realign their Positions with New Realities

2. Asia and its Actors, their Logics and the Challenges
Gordon Redding

3. Export-Led Growth in East Asia: Lessons for Europe’s Transition Economies
Ari Kokko

4. Organizational Learning Capacities of Policy-Making Systems for Financial System Recovery: The Case of Sweden with Some Suggestions for Japan
Kenji Suzuki

5. Levitt Emphasized Markets but Manufacturing Leads the Way
Fred Robins

Part II. Definition of How Success or Failure Occurs is Changing in the Face of Surrounding Technical and Informational Adjustments

6. Japanese Foreign Direct Investment and the Transformation of the East Asian Political Economy: Corporate Strategy in the Automotive Sector
Andrew J. Staples

7. Foreign Ownership, Human Capital and Earnings in the Japanese Labour Market
Hiroshi Ono

8. Gaining Societal Advantages in Emerging Markets: International Stakeholder Management in Malaysia
Hans Jansson

9. The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the Economic Development of ASEAN Economies
Hafiz Mirza, Axèle Giroud

Part III. China’s Recent Surge of Industrialization has Caused a Massive Global Redirection in the Movements of Capital, Labour and Technology

10. China’s Changing Role in Industrial Value Chains and Reverberations on Industrial Actors in Germany
Ulrich Jürgens, Rolf Rehbehn

11. Local Responsiveness of German Firms in International Joint Ventures in the PRC
Alexander T. Mohr, Jonas F. Puck

12. Foreign Direct Investment Communities and the Legitimation of Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiaries in China
Jiatao Li, Jing Yu Yang

13. The Changing Environment for Entrepreneurship Development: Private Business in the People’s Republic of China
Harald Dolles

Keywords: Business and Management, International Business, International Economics