The option for consumers to make payments for services and products via mobile telephones has created a dynamic new industry. High-Tech Entrepreneurship in Asia illustrates how small, entrepreneurial firms in Asia have devised and produced innovations crucial for this industry’s development.

The possession of key international technical standards in some technology-based sectors can provide considerable advantages for firms wishing to internationalize rapidly and early. Avaro, a start-up Korean company, developed and owned a critical standard in the emerging international mobile...

Cultural traits play a significant role in the determination of economic outcomes and institutions. This paper presents evidence from laboratory experiments on the cultural integration of individuals of Chinese ethnicity in Australia, focusing on social preferences, risk attitudes, and...

Cultural traits play a significant role in the determination of economic outcomes and institutions. This paper presents evidence from laboratory experiments on the cultural integration of individuals of Chinese ethnicity in Australia, focusing on social preferences, preferences for competition,...

Paul Verdin and Peter Williamson construct links between 'inward-looking' strategies by companies -- which are governed by their existing assets, capabilities and core competencies -- and 'outward-looking' strategies which emphasise a more traditional market-competitor analysis. Two aphorisms...

Mass customization -- making products tailor-made for each individual buyer, in which even the base components are varied -- sounds impossible. Yet it is a reality in Japan and represents a new Japanese competitive advantage. Roy Westbrook and Peter Williamson, reflecting on many visits to...

This article, by Alice de Koning, Paul Verdin and Peter Williamson contributes to the debate on corporate European integration. The focus of their research is on how the process of transition from fragmented, nationally-dependent organizations towards more integrated, European regional networks...

Beginning in 2005 over 12,000 industrial facilities throughout the European Union were granted allowances to emit carbon dioxide, the most common of greenhouse gases. A trade-able asset, these allocations will be but the first in what is likely to be an ever stricter limitation on greenhouse gas...