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- Captures the contemporary landscape of international entrepreneurship in Japan and South East Asia
- Builds on the research and theory of international entrepreneurship
- Identifies key issues relating to entrepreneurship policy development and implementation
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Graduate School of Business Administration, Toyo Gakuen University, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
Kazuko Yokoyama, Sarah Louisa Birchley
About the authors
Professor Yokoyama is the Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, Toyo Gakuen University, Tokyo, Japan, where she supervises research in the field of human resource management in Japanese companies by drawing comparisons between Japanese-style employment management and the merit-based systems. Her recent research is concerned with Japanese self-initiated expatriate entrepreneurs working in Southeast Asia, where she conducted researches, visiting Hong Kong, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. Her recent publications include Working in South-east Asia, Pelican Publishing Co., 2017 and Yokoyama K. & S. L. Birchley (2018). Mindset and Social Entrepreneurship, Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, Vol 4, Issue 1, pp1-21, SAGE Publications. In her early career, Yokoyama worked a total of nine years in the UN Organizations, for Employment Department in ILO, Geneva, African Bureau of UNHCR, Geneva and Personnel Division of FAO, Rome.
Professor Birchley works in the Faculty of Business Administration and the Graduate School of Business Administration, Toyo Gakuen University, Tokyo, Japan. Her research interests include diaspora entrepreneurship, tourism entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education. She has recently completed a sabbatical as a Visiting Scholar at the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas at Austin and at Cardiff University, Wales. Her recent publications include Birchley, S.L. (2018). Heritage Tourism and Entrepreneurship: Cases from the Welsh Context. Proceedings of the International Tourism Congress 2018, Quito, Ecuador and Yokoyama K. & Birchley, S.L. (2018). Mindset and Social Entrepreneurship, Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, Vol 4, Issue 1, pp1-21, SAGE. From Wales, Sarah Louisa has been an expatriate in Japan since 2001 and is working to harness the energy and potentialof the Welsh diaspora in Asia and encourage business and entrepreneurs Transnational Entrepreneurship in South East Asia: Japanese Self-Initiated Expatriate Entrepreneurs
Chapter One: Perspectives on Transnational Entrepreneurship
1.1 Introduction
1.2. Positioning the Research
1.3. What is it exactly that are we exploring?
1.3.1. Entrepreneurship
1.3.2. Defining Transnational Entrepreneurship
1.4. Who is the Entrepreneur in this book?
1.4.1. Self-Initiated Expatriate Entrepreneurs
1.5. When and why is this a pertinent study?
1.6. How are we approaching transnational entrepreneurship?
1.7. The Study
Chapter Two: Entrepreneurship in the Japanese Context
2.1. Demographic Changes in Japan
2.2. Globalization and Internationalization in Japan2.3. Government Strategy
2.4. Human Resource Management Practices in Japan
2.5. Women in Japanese Society
2.6. Entrepreneurship in Japan
2.7. Career Education in Japan
2.8. Entrepreneurship Education in Japan
2.9. Japan, Culture and Entrepreneurship
Chapter Three: Japanese Self-Initiated Expatriate Entrepreneurs in South East Asia
3.1. The Context of South East Asia
3.2. Cambodia
3.2.1. Country Context
3.2.2. Cases
3.3. Vietnam
3.3.1. Country Context3.3.2. Cases
3.4. Myanmar
3.4.1. Country Context
3.4.2. Cases
3.5. Indonesia
3.5.1. Country Context
3.5.2. Cases
3.6. China
3.6.1. Country Context
3.6.2. Cases
3.7. Hong Kong
3.7.1. Country Context
3.7.2. Cases
3.8. Thailand
3.8.1. Country Context
3.8.2. Cases
3.9. The Philippines
3.9.1. Country Context
3.9.2. Cases
Chapter Four: Country Comparisons
4.1. General Findings
4.2. ConceptualizingJapanese Transnational Entrepreneurs in Asia.
4.2.1. Experience
4.2.1.1 Education
4.2.1.2. Workplace
4.2.1.3. Life
4.2.2. Motivation
4.2.3. Networks and Brokers
4.2.4. Knowledge
4.2.5. Mindset
4.2.6. Opportunity Recognition
4.2.7. Innovation and Creativity
4.2.8. Venture Creation and Financing
4.2.9. Identity
4.3. Self-determination theory (SDT)4.4. Summary of Chapter Four
Chapter Five: The Future of Japanese Transnational Entrepreneurs in South East Asia
5.1. Fostering the Next Generation of Japanese SIEEs
5.1.1. New Directions for Japanese HRM
5.1.2. New Directions for Entrepreneurship Education
5.1.3. New Directions for Career Education
5.1.4. Reflections on Doing Business South East Asia
5.2. On Becoming a Self-Initiated Expatriate Entrepreneur
5.2.1. Exploration Stage
5.2.2. Exposure to overseas
5.2.3. Familyand Lifestyle Choices5.2.4. Workplace & Career Choices
5.2.5. Developing Self-Efficacy
5.2.6. Key Business Decisions
5.3. Reflections on this study
5.3.1. Methods and conceptual frameworks
5.3.2. Future research directions
5.4. Closing Remarks hip in the region.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transnational Entrepreneurship in South East Asia
Book Subtitle: Japanese Self-Initiated Expatriate Entrepreneurs
Authors: Kazuko Yokoyama, Sarah Louisa Birchley
Series Title: Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9252-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9251-2Published: 11 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9254-3Published: 11 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-32-9252-9Published: 30 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2524-5023
Series E-ISSN: 2524-5031
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 220
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Small Business, Start-Ups/Venture Capital, Management, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Careers in Business and Management, Asian Business