Description
This edited collection examines the changing contours of Korean management and business, presenting recent scholarly research into this important Asian economic player. As one of the original ‘Little Dragon’ or ‘Tiger’ economies, South Korea has grown and prospered since the early years of the 1960s, and is now home to several major word-class multinational companies, such as Hyundai and LG, Samsung. In turn, it has developed a distinctive style of management, which derives from a shared Asian heritage but is nonetheless unique to South Korea. The collection covers a variety of themes, topics and issues from a range of perspectives and fields in management and business studies.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Asia Pacific Business Review.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Chris Rowley and Malcolm Warner 2. Changing corporate culture over time in South Korea Cho, Yu, Joo and Chris Rowley 3. Explanations for Continued Gender Discrimination in South Korean Workplaces Patterson and Walcutt 4. International human resource management policies and practices of South Korean MNEs: a review of the literature Kang and Shen 5. Turnover intentions and organizational citizenship behaviours in Korean firms: the interactional effects of organizational and occupational commitment Kim and Chang 6. Antecedents and characteristics of informal relation-based networks in Korea: Yongo, Yonjul and Inmaek Horak 7. Realised absorptive capacity, technology acquisition and performance in international collaborative formations: an empirical examination in the Korean context Buckley and Park 8. Go big or stay home? Korean machinery firms, trade fair dynamics and export performance Kalafsky and Gress 9. Interstate competition in the US South for South Korean auto investments: a US perspective McDermott 10. Distance and divestment of Korean MNC affiliates: The moderating role of entry mode and experience Pattnaik and Lee 11. Conclusion Malcolm Warner and Chris Rowley
