Globalisation and SMEs in East Asia / edited by Charles Harvie and Boon-Chye Lee.

Papers presented at an international conference, organized by the International Business Research Institute of the University of Wollongong, Australia, held in Wollongong on June 16-17, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 The Study of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in East Asia 1 -- Charles Harvie and Boon-Chye Lee -- 2 The Asian Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Regional SMEs 10 -- Charles Harvie -- 3 SMEs in the Globalised Developing Economies: Some Asia-Pacific Examples 43 -- Henry Wan, Jr -- 4 SMEs in Southeast Asia: Issues and Constraints in the Pre- and Post-Crisis Environments 61 -- Henry Sandee -- 5 Trade Finance for East Asian SMEs and the Asian Financial Crisis 83 -- Donald G. Ross -- 6 Financing Issues: SME IPOs in China and Australia 95 -- Gurmeet S. Bhabra, John G. Powell, Jing Shi and Tian Ze -- 7 Small and Medium Enterprises: Evaluating Foreign Direct Investments in the Presence of Political Risk 116 -- Boon-Chye Lee and John G. Powell -- 8 The Role of SMEs in the Diffusion of Technology among East Asian Economies 131 -- Tim Turpin -- 9 Requirements for SME Information Technology 158 -- Craig Van Slyke, Christopher Conca and Kenneth Trimmer -- 10 Electronic Commerce and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in East Asia 190 -- Boon-Chye Lee -- 11 SMEs and Regional Labour Markets: Major Trends Since 1997 209 -- Peter van Diermen -- 12 From Miracle to Crisis and Beyond: The Role of Entrepreneurship and SMEs in Asia 225 -- Hock-Beng Cheah -- 13 Small Chinese Businesses after the Asian Crisis: Surviving and Reviving 253 -- Constance Lever-Tracy and David Ip -- 14 Connections, Culture and Context: Business Relationships and Networks in the Asia-Pacific Region 274 -- Liz Fulop and David Richards -- 15 Franchising: An Interdependent Alternative to Independent SMEs 298 -- Leo Paul Dana, Hamid Etemad and Richard W Wright.