Coping with Growth Transitions: The Case of Chinese Family Businesses in Singapore

Families control more than half of the corporations in East Asia. The contribution of family businesses to Asia's economic growth is predicated upon successfully growing their businesses. Many family businesses in East Asia, spanning countries such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, an...

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Main Authors: TAN, Wee-Liang, FOCK, Siew Tong
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spelling sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-47942018-07-10T04:46:40Z Coping with Growth Transitions: The Case of Chinese Family Businesses in Singapore TAN, Wee-Liang FOCK, Siew Tong Families control more than half of the corporations in East Asia. The contribution of family businesses to Asia's economic growth is predicated upon successfully growing their businesses. Many family businesses in East Asia, spanning countries such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia, are Chinese owned and managed. Some claim that these businesses will never develop into full-fledged multinational enterprises because of their cultural heritage (Redding, 1990). However, some Chinese family businesses have successfully made the transition.This paper presents an in-depth study of five Chinese family businesses in Singapore that have successfully made the transition in growth and size and across national boundaries and family generations. Their business empires extend into the Asia Pacific region. This paper highlights the key success factors of these five noteworthy family businesses that enabled them to make these growth transitions. 2001-06-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3798 info:doi/10.1111/j.1741-6248.2001.00123.x https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/4794/viewcontent/auto_convert.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Family-owned business enterprises family business succession Singapore Chinese family business Asian Studies Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations Strategic Management Policy
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
content_provider SMU Libraries
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language English
topic Family-owned business enterprises
family business succession
Singapore
Chinese
family business
Asian Studies
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
Strategic Management Policy
spellingShingle Family-owned business enterprises
family business succession
Singapore
Chinese
family business
Asian Studies
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
Strategic Management Policy
TAN, Wee-Liang
FOCK, Siew Tong
Coping with Growth Transitions: The Case of Chinese Family Businesses in Singapore
description Families control more than half of the corporations in East Asia. The contribution of family businesses to Asia's economic growth is predicated upon successfully growing their businesses. Many family businesses in East Asia, spanning countries such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia, are Chinese owned and managed. Some claim that these businesses will never develop into full-fledged multinational enterprises because of their cultural heritage (Redding, 1990). However, some Chinese family businesses have successfully made the transition.This paper presents an in-depth study of five Chinese family businesses in Singapore that have successfully made the transition in growth and size and across national boundaries and family generations. Their business empires extend into the Asia Pacific region. This paper highlights the key success factors of these five noteworthy family businesses that enabled them to make these growth transitions.
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author TAN, Wee-Liang
FOCK, Siew Tong
author_facet TAN, Wee-Liang
FOCK, Siew Tong
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title Coping with Growth Transitions: The Case of Chinese Family Businesses in Singapore
title_short Coping with Growth Transitions: The Case of Chinese Family Businesses in Singapore
title_full Coping with Growth Transitions: The Case of Chinese Family Businesses in Singapore
title_fullStr Coping with Growth Transitions: The Case of Chinese Family Businesses in Singapore
title_full_unstemmed Coping with Growth Transitions: The Case of Chinese Family Businesses in Singapore
title_sort coping with growth transitions: the case of chinese family businesses in singapore
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2001
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3798
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