M-commerce Market in the Asia-Pacific Region
Asia-Pacific Winning Broadband Race
Alibaba.com
Beginning with $60,000 and a dream, Alibaba.com shot to the top in less than two years and is now the world’s largest online marketplace for international trade among small- and medium-sized enterprises. But just like the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, making it inside the cave is only the beginning of the adventure. Professor Ming Zeng describes Alibaba.com’s rise, explains the challenges … [ Read more ]
Content: Case Study | Author: Ming Zeng | Source: INSEAD | Subjects: International – Asia, Strategy | Company: Alibaba.com
Online Auction Revenue in Latin America
Mobile Growth in South Korea
recruit MBA zone
recruit MBA zone is designated to support the job search activities of Japanese/English bilingual MBAs outside Japan including those pre-MBAs as well as MBA holders.
Content: Career Information | Subject: International – Asia
Widespread DSL in Japan
Business Email Usage in Japan
E-Commerce in Japan
Internet Access Spending in the Asia-Pacific Region
E-Retail in South Korea
Governance in India and Around the Globe
India is not known for rigid corporate governance standards. Is software giant Infosys changing all that? A working paper by HBS professors Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu looks at how globalization may—or may not—foster convergence of corporate governance.
Content: Article | Authors: Krishna Palepu, Tarun Khanna | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Corporate Governance, International – Asia
Cellphone Sales Slip in Japan
Cable TV Subscribers in Japan
The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
This book addresses the generation-old question of why the Japanese are so successful in business. The authors, professors of management at Hitosubashi University, contend that Japanese firms are successful because they are innovative, that is, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. They identify two types of organizational knowledge: explicit knowledge, contained in procedures and manuals, and tacit … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Hirotaka Takeuchi, Ikujiro Nonaka | Subjects: International – Asia, Knowledge Management
What’s Next for India: Leading Change in an Age of Uncertainty
Can the world’s largest democracy hold on to its competitive advantage in information technology while meeting the basic needs of its population? That was the major question before participants of the sixth annual Wharton India Economic Forum, which formed part of the Wharton 2001 Global Business Forum. In contrast to past years, this year’s discussions seemed to be firmly grounded in bottom-line reality.
Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: International – Asia
The Keiretsu System: Cracking or Crumbling? (.pdf)
This excellent piece looks at Japan’s Keiretsu system – definitions, history, purposes, structure and future. If you don’t know much about the Keiretsu system, this is the article to read.
Content: Article | Author: Douglas Ostrom | Source: Japan Economic Institute | Subjects: Economics, International – Asia
The Panic Spreads
You can no longer safely shrug off Japan’s economic crisis. It just might drag the world into a depression.
Content: Article | Author: Benjamin Fulford | Source: Forbes | Subjects: Economics, International – Asia