Special Issue on
"Strategic Dimensions of Organizational Change
and Restructuring in the Asia Pacific#1: Strategies
for Foreign Investors"
Journal of Organizational Change Management
(JOCM) Volume 11, Issue 4, 1998
Guest Editor/Regional Editor (Asia Pacific): Usha C. V. Haley
This cross-disciplinary special issue draws on varied
levels of analysis to explore organizational strategies
of change, and responses to new and diverse pressures,
in the rapidly churning Asia Pacific region. The changes
in the Asia Pacific have realigned coalitions and
redistributed benefits and costs among stakeholders.
In the last year, the steep devaluations
of local currencies against the US dollar
(from over 90 percent for the Indonesian rupiah to
over 20 percent for the Australian,
Singaporean and New Zealand dollars) have whetted
Western investors' interests in regional acquisitions.
Yet, old concerns of management, and mismanagement,
remain. Articles in the first part of this double issue
emphasize interpretation of phenomena, or of results,
and their implications for investors' strategies in the
Asia Pacific. The articles also discuss the effects of
some of the large-scale changes in the Asia Pacific on
organizational stakeholders; all propose implications for
successful and effective organizational strategies in the
Asia Pacific and suggestions for future research
on the region.
The Table of Contents include:
"Foreign Companies and Chinese Workers: Employee
Motivation in the People's Republic of China," by
Terence Jackson, Director of the Centre for Cross
Cultural Management Research, EAP European
School of Management and Mette Bak,
BASF, Shanghai
"Boxing with Shadows: Competing Effectively with the
Overseas Chinese and Overseas Indian Business
Networks in the Asian Arena," by George T. Haley,
Director of the Marketing and International Business
Programs, University of New Haven, and Usha C.V.
Haley, School of Management, New Jersey Institute of
Technology and Managing Business in Asia Program,
The Australian National University
"The Evolution of Multinational Firms from Asia:
A Longitudinal Study of Taiwan's Acer Group,"
by Peter Ping Li, California State University
"Virtual Singapores: Shaping International
Competitive Environments Through Business-
Government Partnerships," by Usha C.V. Haley,
School of Management, New Jersey Institute of
Technology and Managing Business in Asia Program,
The Australian National University
"Effective Leadership in Joint-Ventures in Vietnam:
A Cross-Cultural Perspective," by Truong Quang,
School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology,
Fredric William Swierczek, School of Management,
Asian Institute of Technology, and Dang thi Kim Chi,
International Monetary Fund, Ho Chi Minh City
Abstracts of articles in this issue, along with authors'
bios, editorial, full-text articles, and links to other
Asia Pacific WWW resources may be accessed
at the following URLs on the WWW:
http://www.mcb.co.uk/apmforum/opc/mcb5abs.htm
or (for faster access from the Americas)
http://www.apmforum.com/aplit/mcb5abs.htm
JOCM (Editor, Professor David Boje) publishes
qualitative,critical, and post-modern research
on organizational change. To access abstracts of JOCM
articles from 1994, and guidelines for submission to the
journal, please click on the journal's title at the above URLs --
or send an e-mail to the Regional Editor at
alamo@compuserve.com
or to the Editor at
dboje@nmsu.edu.
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Dr. Usha C. V. Haley
Associate Professor, School of Management
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, USA
&
Research Associate, Managing Business in Asia Program
The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
Internet:
alamo@compuserve.com Usha.Haley@anu.edu.au
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