The Routledge Companion to Asian Family Business

Ho-Don Yan is a Professor at the Department of Economics, Feng Chia University, Taiwan. He received his PhD in economics from the State University of New York at Albany. His research fields include open macroeconomics and entrepreneurship. Fu-Lai Tony Yu obtained his PhD from the University of New South Wales (ADFA). He taught at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Monash University (Australia) and Feng Chia University (Taiwan). He is currently Emeritus Professor of Economics at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. His research interests include entrepreneurship, small and medium-sized enterprises, Austrian economics, governmental economics and Asian business systems.

Part I Key Concepts

Governance and Family Entrepreneurship 1. Governance and Complexity in Family Firms: A Framework. 2. Industry 4.0 and Asian Family Entrepreneurship: A Career Perspective. 3. Unravelling Entrepreneurial Endeavour: H. S. Lee and the Birth of the Development and Commercial Bank in Malaysia. Longevity, Gender Gap, and Tacit Knowledge Innovation 4. Longevity and Disruption–Evidence from Japanese Family Businesses. 5. Analysis of Family Businesses from a Gender Perspective. 6. Tacit Knowledge Innovation, Generational Change and Enterprise Development: Chinese Family Businesses in Malaysia. Comparative Studies 7. Engaging Successors in Family Businesses: Case Studies in Finland and Thailand. 8. Chinese Business Culture and Corporate Networks: An Empirical Examination on Interlocking Directorates for Major Listed Firms in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. 9. Governance in Family Business: Australia and Sri Lanka. 10. Development and Predicaments of Entrepreneurship and Family Businesses in Russia.

Part II Cases

East Asia: China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. 11. Death Smiles at Us All: Changing Demographics and Succession-Induced Portfolio Entrepreneurship in a Chinese Family Business Group. 12. Property Rights and Family Business Succession: The Case of Yung Kee in Hong Kong. 13. Trans-generational Entrepreneurship and Survival of Japanese Family Businesses - The Interconnection with Regional Communities. 14. Implementing Agility in a Big Firm-driven Economy: Digital Disruption and Korea’s Retail Chaebol. 15. Family Business and Portfolio Entrepreneurship: The Case of Taiwan’s King Car Group. South-East Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Vietnam. 16. Enhancing Local Culinary Potential through Internationalization of Indonesian Family Business. 17. The Role of Social Capital in Business Resilience: A Case Study of Malaysian Family Business. 18. Understanding Family Business Succession in Myanmar: A Unified Systems Perspective. 19. Family Inertia as a Barrier to Digital Technology Adaptation by Small Philippine Family Businesses. 20. Achievements, Challenges and New Directions of Family Business in Vietnam. South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. 21. Adaptability with Resource Constraints and Globalization: Family Business Groups of Bangladesh. 22. Indian Family Firms in Emerging Digital Economy: An Analysis of Digital Technology Adoption. 23. Creating Value across Generations in Family Run Businesses in Nepal. 24. The Risk That Became True – Cases Study of a Pakistani Family Business Portfolio Diversification.