1st Edition

The Rise of the Corporate Economy in Southeast Asia

By Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown Copyright 2006
406 Pages
by Routledge

406 Pages 106 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

416 Pages 106 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Rise of the Corporate Economy in Southeast Asia surveys the growth of large corporations in Southeast Asia, focusing in particular on corporate organization, methods of finance, the business environment and corporate governance. It details the different phases of corporate and financial development, particularly liberalization and globalization from the mid-1980s, the 1997 crisis, and... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Conglomerates in contemporary Indonesia: Concentration, Crisis and Restructuring  3. Irrational Exuberance: The Fatal Conceit of Financial Capitalism in Contemporary Indonesia  4. Indonesian Corporations, Cronyism and Corruption  5. Malaysian Banking: Organizational Control and Corporate Governance  6. Capital structure puzzle: the Hong Leong Group in Malaysia  7. Renong: Privatization Bliss and Globalization  8. The Emergence and Development of Singapore as an International/Regional Financial Centre  9. Dead Calm: State Entrepreneurship in Singapore: Prospects for Regional Economic Power  10. Thai Financial Institutions: Concentration, Crisis and Restructuring  11. The Power of Large Single Shareholding and Industrial Concentration in Thai Corporate Structure and Performance  12. Philippines Corporate and Financial Institutions: Straggling Continuity in an Erratic Environment  13. Lost in Translation: Reinterpreting the Corporate Order in South East Asia

Biography

Raj Brown is currently Reader in Business History at the School of Management of the Royal Holloway College London. She has previously held positions as Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and as Lecturer in Economic History at the London School of Economics. She is the author of The Indian Minority and Political Change in Malaya, 1945-1957 (1982), Capital and Entrepreneurship in South-East Asia (1994), and Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations (2000, and editor of the four volume Chinese Business Enterprise.