Overview
- Provides 12 business cases and insight as to their success in entrepreneurship across the Asia-Pacific where many new enterprises have been emerging successfully and growing rapidly in the 21th century
- Analyzes and compares these cases from the viewpoints of knowledge creation and value creation in the future business environment, and clarifies their commonalities and uniquenesses with respect to social, cultural and economic characteristics
- Provides many pictures (10+ photos and pictures in each chapter) for fast and reliable diagnosis
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Entrepreneurship in Manufacturing Industry
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Entrepreneurship in Services Industry
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Entrepreneurship in New Business and Social Innovation
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michitaka Kosaka received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics and physics from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1977 and 1984, respectively. He is currently an Emeritus Professor of JAIST (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) and a Guest Professor of Fudan University (China). He had been with Hitachi Ltd. for 31 years, especially with Systems Development Laboratory, where he was a general manager from 2001 to 2005. Then, he joined in JAIST in 2008, where he wasa dean of school of knowledge science from 2011 to 2014. His research covers knowledge science, service science, R&D management, financial information systems and stochastic control theory including Kalman filter. He is a fellow of IEEJ, a fellow of SICE and members of several institutes in Japan.
Ke Xing is a Program Director at School of Engineering, University of South Australia. He served as a member of Professional Development Committee at Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society (ALCAS) and is a standing committee member of Ecological Development Union International (EDUI) (Australia) (2011 to date). In his academic career, Dr Xing is particularly dedicated to incorporate social, economic, and environmental perspectives into tertiary engineering education and training programs to prepare graduates to become professional engineers with specialized knowledge and skills for achieving sustainability in engineering practice. In his research, he also has extensive projects and publications in the areas of resource-efficient product and service innovation, sustainable industry and community transformation, and low-carbon urban precinct system modeling. To date, he has authored over 80 research publications in books, refereed journals and international conference proceedings.
Hua Bai is currently a Ph. D. candidate at School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, China. She received her M.S. degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, US. Her research focuses on supply chain sustainability management, consumer recycling behavior and neuroeconomics based consumer decision making. She has many research achievements including 4 SCI/EI indexed papers and book chapters in the above mentioned field and serves as reviewer for refereed journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, The Service Industries Journal and etc.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Entrepreneurship in the Asia-Pacific: Case Studies
Editors: Jing Wang, Michitaka Kosaka, Ke Xing, Hua Bai
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9362-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9361-8Published: 08 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9364-9Published: 08 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-32-9362-5Published: 23 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 287
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 131 illustrations in colour