Improving Small Firm Performance through Collaborative Change Management and Outside Learning: Trends in Singapore

• Main Authors: MENKHOFF, Thomas, CHAY, Yue Wah
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Asian Studies; Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3315; https://search.library.smu.edu.sg/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=SMU_ALMA2136422650002601&context=L&vid=SMU_NUI&search_scope=BooksandVideos&tab=booksandvideos&lang=en_US
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This empirical-exploratory article sheds light on the change management approaches used by Chinese owner-managers of small firms in Singapore and their openness toward strategic learning. The paper examines widespread common-sense assumptions that ethnic Chinese adopt mostly directive-coercive (auto...