Competing in the Global Economy: The Globalisation of Business Firms From Emerging Economies

Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. His research interests cover broadly theories and the geography of transnational corporations, Asian firms and their overseas operations and Chinese business networks in the Asia-Pacific region. He has conducted extensively research on Hong Kong firms in Southeast Asia and the regionalisation of Singaporean companies. He has published over 35 articles in internationally-refereed journals on such topics as economic globalisation, Asian firms and their overseas operations and Chinese business networks in the Asia-Pacific region. He is the author of Transnational Corporations and Business Networks: Hong Kong Firms in the ASEAN Region (Routledge, London, 1998) and co-editor of Globalization of Chinese Business Firms (Macmillan, London, 2000) and Globalisation and the Asia Pacific: Contested Territories, (Routledge, London, 1999).