CATALYST FOR CHANGE

Introduction (Thomas Menkhoff, Chay Yue Wah, Hans-Dieter Evers and Hoon Chang Yau); Ethnic Chinese as Trading Minority: Implications for Business and Society: The Sea as Paddy - The Making of Fujian as Transnational Place (Jessica Chong); Trade Routes, Trust and Tactics: Chinese Traders in Singapore (Thomas Menkhoff); What Chinese Am I? The Use of Heritage for Economic Imperatives in Developmental State Singapore (Daphnee Lee); Malaysian Chinese Business: Ethnicity and Knowledge Management (Chin Yee Whah); Evolving Chineseness, Ethnicity and Business: The Making of the Ethnic Chinese as a Market-Dominant Minority in Indonesia (Hoon Chang Yau); Generational Change in Chinese Indonesian SMEs (Juliette Koning); Chinese Guanxi, Chineseness and Changing Business Practices: Chinese Business Networks - A Hypothetical Dialogue (Thomas Menkhoff); Trading Networks of Chinese Entrepreneurs in Singapore (Thomas Menkhoff and Chalmers Labig); Managing Change in Asian Business - A Comparison Between Chinese-educated and English-educated Chinese Entrepreneurs in Singapore (Thomas Menkhoff, Ulrike Badibanga and Chay Yue Wah); Managing Change in Chinese Business - Challenges Ahead: Continuity and Change in Corporate Governance Among Ethnic Chinese Family Firms in Singapore (Tsui-Auch, Lai Si and Chow Yi Lin, Dawn); Improving Small Firm Performance Through Collaborative Change Management and Outside Learning: Trends in Singapore (Thomas Menkhoff and Chay Yue Wah); Brand Management in Chinese Family Business: The Case of Eu Yang San (Thomas Menkhoff and Willem Smit); Leadership, Knowledge Management and Learning in Chinese Business: Mindful Leadership - Asian Perspectives (Thomas Menkhoff, Jochen Reb, Hans-Dieter Evers, Chay Yue Wah, Charles Chow and Lee Cher Leng); Exploring Lee Kong Chian's Knowledge Leadership Style in Nam Aik Company (Shiyan Dai and Guocai Zhang); The Management of Organizational Learning in Chinese Business - Case Studies of Asian SMEs (Thomas Menkhoff); Case Studies: Strategic Entrepreneurship in Emerging Market Multinationals: Marco Polo Marine (Marleen Dieleman and Lee Yue-Jer); The Ciputra Group: Shaping the City in Asia (Marleen Dieleman); The Salim Group: The Art of Strategic Flexibility (Marleen Dieleman); Chinese Business as Learning Organization: The Case of Qian Hu Corporation Limited (Thomas Menkhoff); Asian Business in Local Contexts: Informal Banking and Early International Entrepreneurs: The Case of the Chettiars (Jayarani Tan and Wee-Liang Tan); The Internationalisation Chinese Firms - Evidence From the People's Republic of China (Hinrich Voss); Chinese and Malay Conceptions of Space and the Urbanisation of Malaysia (Hans-Dieter Evers).