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Asian Nations and Multinationals

Overcoming the Limits to Growth

  • Outlines the current landscape of Asia in geo-economic and geo-political terms
  • Offers solutions to known barriers to growth for Asian nations
  • Split into three parts on trade issues, agriculture, and firms, respectively

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
  2. Trade Issues and International Business Strategies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. Control and Coordination of Chinese Subsidiaries in France

      • Johannes Schaaper, Ni Gao
      Pages 29-45
  3. International Trade, Agriculture, Food Supply and Sustainable Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
    2. Asian Palm Oil Production and European Vegetable Oil Market: What Can We Learn in Terms of Sustainability?

      • Deborah Bentivoglio, Adele Finco, Giorgia Bucci, M. Bruna Zolin
      Pages 83-99
  4. Firms and Societies in Asia Facing New Challenges

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
    2. Impact of the Trump Administration on the Economies of the Greater China Region

      • Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan, Lucía Morales
      Pages 139-157
    3. Microfinance in Southeast Asia: The Case of Vietnam Over the Period 2005–2015

      • Long Bui-Thanh, Lucía Morales, Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan
      Pages 159-173
    4. Staffing of French MNCs in Asia: The Roles of Long-Term Expatriates Versus Short-Term Assignees

      • Bruno Amann, Jacques Jaussaud, Johannes Schaaper
      Pages 175-191
  5. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
    2. Overall Conclusion of the Book

      • Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan, Jacques Jaussaud, M. Bruna Zolin
      Pages 195-198
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 199-205

About this book

Although Asia has been the world engine of economic growth since World War II, growth rates have differed sharply among the countries of the region. Still, all Asian countries have experienced some degree of growth limitation. Japan is facing the crucial issue of a quickly aging and shrinking population, a situation that South Korea is bound to face in the near future too. China, which still enjoys relatively high growth rates, is dealing with an exhaustion of its export-led growth model based on low wages, as well as huge and unprecedented environmental problems. In addition, food supply is still a concern for most Asian countries in spite of huge increases in productivity in the agricultural sector, the main reason being that global demand for food products has been increasing at an even higher speed. 

This edited collection focuses on the policies – at the macroeconomic level – and strategies – at the micro-meso economic levels – that need to be deployed in orderto overcome the limits to growth in a post-global financial crisis and export-led growth context. It will be of interest to all scholars of economics, management and the political sciences who work on the economies of East Asia, and also to all those who work on the theme of 'transition economies'. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan

  • University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour, Pau, France

    Jacques Jaussaud

  • Ca Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy

    M. Bruna Zolin

About the editors

Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan is Jean Monnet Professor of Economics at the University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland and International Research Fellow at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

Jacques Jaussaud is Professor of Management at the University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour, France.

M. Bruna Zolin is Professor at Ca’ Foscari University, Department of Economics, Venice, Italy.


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