As the business environment becomes more global and competitive, organizations need to pay more managerial attention to systematically encouraging business innovation. Singapore-based YCH Group, a leader in end-to-end supply chain solutions in the AsiaPacific region, has addressed the issue of stimulating business innovation. This article describes its experiences and offers three lessons for e...

An intense scholarly and public policy debate concerns the optimal design of political institutions for new democracies, particularly those facing deep ethnic or cultural cleavages. Drawing on a book-length study of political engineering in the AsiaPacific region, this paper surveys the differences between consociational and centripetal approaches to institutional design. After examining the ke...

This paper surveys recent literature on the design of international institutions and applies the insights from it to the prospects for regional economic cooperation in the AsiaPacific. The political and economic heterogeneity of the region has served the process of regional economic integration. But this heterogeneity has limited the extent of institutional development and contributed to well-k...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com neurological complications and cardiopulmonary diseases in young children [1-5]. In the past two decades, coxsackievirus A16 (CV-A16) and enterovirus 71 (EV-A71) have been the predominant etiologic agents of herpangina (HA) and hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) epidemics [5-7]. Several other enterovirus serotypes frequently co-circulate with EV-A7...

The creation of a region-wide economic agreement in Asia has become a hot topic among trade policymakers in the region. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2010 Summit Statement clearly states thatmembers should pursue a Free Trade Area of the AsiaPacific (FTAAP) by building on various ongoing regional cooperation frameworks including the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)+...

Reports that among the major current problems in AsiaPacific countries are those due to heat, heavy metals, organic solvents, pesticides, carcinogens, dusts, reproductive hazards, biological hazards, and psychosocial problems, including work stress. The relative importance differs from country to country. For most of the countries in the Asia-Pacific region surveyed, the information concerning ...

The Asia-Pacific region is a geographic source for emerging infectious diseases, including multidrug-resistant (MDR) organisms (MDROs) and pathogens with pandemic potential. Risks for emerging infectious diseases in this geographic region are complex and are presumed to include ecological, socioeconomic, and technological processes favorable to microbial transmission dynamics. In resource-limit...

The influence of managerial attitudes on corporate finance has become a topic of great interest. For example, Malmendier and Tate (2008) show that overconfident managers are more likely to conduct acquisitions. This research explores the impact of national business cultures on cross-border acquisitions. Business cultures can influence the ways managers cope with uncertainty and their subsequent...

Craig Knight, Asia-Pacific Digital Business and Customer Services Manager of Eastman Chemical Company, was given a mandate to sell Eastman’s philosophy for an integrated electronic supply chain, otherwise known as the Integrated System Solution (ISS), to its business partners in the region, and to encourage adoption. Having invested in a state-of-the-art technical architecture that would suppor...