1st Edition

Business Practices in Southeast Asia An interdisciplinary analysis of theravada Buddhist countries

By Scott A. Hipsher Copyright 2010
224 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This is an international business study of Theravada Buddhist Southeast Asia. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, the book examines business practices within a political, cultural, economic and religious context. It highlights those cultural and historical ties of the region which are shared because of a common religion. In analysing business environments, economics and government practices... Read more

1. Theravada Buddhist Southeast Asia  2. Theravada Buddhism  3. Cambodia  4. Laos  5. Thailand  6. Myanmar  7. Business Strategies in Theravada Buddhism Southeast Asia  8. Tactical Management: Human Resources, Management Style, and Leadership  9. Marketing, Finance, Labor Relations, Operational Management and Internationalization  10. Features of Firms in Theravada Buddhism Southeast Asia  11. Politics and Democracy  12. Trends and the Future

Biography

Scott A. Hipsher is currently associated with Anaheim University’s Akio Morita School of Business in Tokyo, Japan.  He is the author of Expatriates in Asia: Breaking Free from the Colonial Paradigm and The Nature of Asian Firms: An Evolutionary Perspective.

"The book should be commended for its two major contributions. First, it provides a good survey of a region that is often neglected in management and business studies...Second, the book touches on the two issues that are not commonly linked to one another - religion and business practices." - Dr Pavida Panamond, South East Asia Research, Vol 18. No 4 (December 2010)