Entrepreneurship and the internationalisation of Asian firms: an institutional perspective
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2002
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| Series: | New horizons in international business
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| adam_text | Contents
List of figures viii
List of tables ix
List of boxes xii
Preface and acknowledgements xiii
1. An institutional perspective on entrepreneurship in
international business 1
2. Transnational entrepreneurship in two contrasting Asian
contexts: Hong Kong and Singapore 49
3. City states and their global reach: outward investments from
Hong Kong and Singapore 103
4. Entrepreneurs in international business 151
5. Empowered managers: intrapreneurs in international
business 207
6. Conclusion: developing entrepreneurship in international
business 250
References 277
Index 305
vii
Figures
1.1 The institutional structuring of entrepreneurship in specific
national business systems 27
1.2 Transnational entrepreneurs and actor networks at different
spatial scales 35
1.3 A map of Hong Kong and Singapore 43
3.1 Sectoral distribution of Singapore s direct investment
abroad by host region, 1997 114
3.2 Ownership structure of parent companies in Singapore 120
3.3 Sectoral distribution of parent companies in Singapore 121
3.4 Turnover of parent companies in Singapore 122
3.5 Motives of transnational operations by host region 126
3.6 Mechanisms of overseas operations by companies from
Singapore 129
3.7 Mechanisms of control over foreign subsidiaries by
Singapore companies 132
4.1 Attributes of entrepreneurship described by transnational
entrepreneurs 158
5.1 The location of Singapore industrial parks in Wuxi and
Suzhou in Jiangsu Province, China 222
Tables
1.1 Entrepreneurship studies in the twentieth century 6
1.2 Entrepreneurship in international business studies 8
1.3 Different views of the entrepreneur 13
1.4 The embeddedness of business firms in their national
institutional and ideological structures 22
1.5 Summary table of data collected on Hong Kong and
Singaporean transnational corporations 44
2.1 Key macro economic indicators on Hong Kong and
Singapore, 1960 1999 52
2.2 Inward direct investments in Hong Kong by country of
origin, 1970 1998 54
2.3 Evolving comparative advantage and major strategies of
industrial development in Hong Kong, 1950 1999 56
2.4 Cumulative equity investments in Singapore by country of
origin, 1965 1997 59
2.5 Net investment commitments in manufacturing in
Singapore by country of origin, 1963 1999 60
2.6 Principal statistics for all establishments in all sectors by
number of persons engaged and percentage shares of small
and medium enterprises in Hong Kong, 1960 1998 64
2.7 Comparing business systems and entrepreneurship in
Hong Kong and Singapore 75
2.8 Local and foreign ownership of selected sectors in Hong
Kong,1960 1998 76
2.9 Local and foreign ownership of selected sectors in
Singapore, 1960 1998 77
2.10 Summary of divestments by Temasek Holdings in
Singapore 83
2.11 Principal statistics for all establishments in all sectors by
number of persons engaged and percentage shares of small
and medium enterprises in Singapore, 1960 1998 86
2.12 Financial markets and institutions in Hong Kong and
Singapore, 1960 1999 88
2.13 Number of establishments in all sectors and establishment
population ratios in Hong Kong and Singapore, 1960 1997 93
x List of tables
2.14 Distribution of the labour force by activity status in Hong
Kong and Singapore, 1957 1999 96
3.1 Estimated flows and stocks of foreign direct investment from
Hong Kong to selected host economies 107
3.2 Trade involving Hong Kong s outward processing in
Mainland China, 1990 1996 109
3.3 Cumulative outward direct investment from Singapore by
country, 1976 1997 110
3.4 Foreign equity investment of Singaporean firms by industrial
origin and activity abroad, 1990 1997 113
3.5 A partial list of top TNCs from emerging markets ranked by
sales, 1977 116
3.6 The top 25 TNCs from developing countries ranked by
foreign assets, 1997 118
3.7 Global geographies of transnational operations by
indigenous companies from Singapore and Hong Kong 123
3.8 Importance of different factors of globalisation assessed
by indigenous companies from Singapore by region 128
3.9 Modes of foreign entry by 204 indigenous companies from
Singapore by host country 131
3.10 Comparison of the characteristics of transnational
corporations from Hong Kong and Singapore 134
3.11 Composition of manufacturing exports of three Asian NIEs
in the US market, 1989 1992 138
3.12 Agencies of the Singapore state in the regionalisation effort 145
3.13 Assistance schemes and programmes of the Economic
Development Board of Singapore 148
4.1 Profiles of transnational entrepreneurs by gender and
designation 158
4.2 Influence of home country conditions on the establishment
of foreign operations by host region and transnational
entrepreneurs 170
4.3 Influence of host country conditions on the establishment of
foreign operations by host region and transnational
entrepreneurs 171
4.4 Influence of global conditions on the establishment of
foreign operations by host region and transnational
entrepreneurs 173
4.5 Mechanisms of establishing foreign operations and the role
of entrepreneurial vision by transnational entrepreneurs 174
4.6 Case studies of transnational entrepreneurs and their
entrepreneurial endowments/resources 188
List of tables xi
4.7 Competitive advantages in establishing foreign operations by
transnational entrepreneurs 195
4.8 Major problems faced and solutions adopted by indigenous
companies from Singapore by region 196
4.9 Attributes of entrepreneurship in overcoming problems in
foreign operations by transnational entrepreneurs 204
5.1 Case studies of transnational intrapreneurs from government
linked companies and their entrepreneurial endowments/
resources 218
5.2 Case studies of transnational intrapreneurs and their
entrepreneurial endowments/resources 220
6.1 Comparison of transnational entrepreneurs and
transnational intrapreneurs 256
6.2 Activities by the Trade Development Board to promote
Singapore s trade and investments outside Asia 1993 1998 272
Boxes
4.1 The global empire of Kwek Leng Beng and his Hong Leong
Group: transnational entrepreneurship and triangular
family networks 159
4.2 HKToys, personal networks, and Chinese entrepreneurship 176
4.3 SINFood, the Asian economic crisis, and changing modes
of foreign market entry 180
4.4 Managing traditional Chinese family firms across borders:
four generations of entrepreneurship in Eu Yan Sang 182
5.1 Teck Wah Paper: trust and intrapreneurship in a Chinese
family firm 210
5.2 Suzhou Singapore industrial park: political
entrepreneurship in China 223
5.3 Singapore Telecom: transnational entrepreneurship in a
government linked company 245
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