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Book SynopsisThe Pacific is a high growth region, comprising East Asian market economy states, North America, China, Australia and New Zealand. This book examines the area's rapidly expanding pattern of corporate competition and cooperation, which is assisting recoveries from the effects of the East Asian financial crises.
The authors argue that the uneven but dynamic integration in the Pacific region which was disrupted by the financial crises is continuing in ways that promise resumptions of higher interdependent growth when fundamental adjustments have been completed. They emphasize that the regional recovery could be assisted by innovative new efforts to promote wider ranging cooperation in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC), which is committed to regional trade and investment liberalization over the next decade.
Trade Review'. . . the volume provides a useful . . . exploration of key issues affecting the development of the Asia-Pacific region.' -- Mark Beeson, Asia Pacific Business Review
Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Pacific Integration and Globalization 2. East Asian Crises and Regional Economic Integration 3. Pacific Economic Integration and the ‘Flying Geese’ Paradigm 4. Pacific Market Integration 5. Multinational Enterprises in APEC 6. Corporate–Government Relations in the Pacific 7. Corporate Interaction, Direct Investment and Regional Cooperation in Industrializing Asia 8. Bank Loan Capitalism and Financial Crises 9. Pacific Collective Management Index
