Entrepreneurship and SMEs in Southeast Asia / / ed. by Denis Hew Wei-Yen, Loi Wee Nee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Booth, Anne,; Freeman, Nick J.,; Hew, Denis,; Kanapathy, Vijayakumari,; Liang, Tan Wee,; Llanto, Gilberto,; Mendoza, Brenda,; Rodriguez, Edgard R.,; Sandee, Henry,; Shanmugaratnam, Tharman,; Supratikno, Hendrawan,; Tangkitvanich, Somkiat,; Urata, Shujiro,; Wengel, Jan ter,
• HerausgeberIn: Hew Wei-Yen, Denis,; Wee Nee, Loi,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 p.)

Economic development in Southeast Asia was until recently largely driven by multinational corporations and by strategies that favoured foreign direct investment. However, the financial crisis of 1997-98 and the subsequent regional economic slowdown in 2001 forced policy-makers to re-evaluate their e...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Foreword
• 1. Introduction: Entrepreneurship and SMEs in Southeast Asia’s Economic Development
• 2. Entrepreneurial Development: The Necessary Conditions
• 3. SMEs in Southeast Asia since the Asian Financial Crisis
• 4. Financing SMEs in Southeast Asia During the Crisis Period: The Cases of Thailand and Malaysia
• 5. An Overview of Donors’ Role in SME Development in Southeast Asia after the Crisis
• 6. Strengthening SMEs in Southeast Asia’s Agricultural Sector
• 7. The Development of SME Clusters in Indonesia
• 8. Entrepreneurship in Malaysia’s Electronics Industry: The Role of SMEs
• 9. Government’s Role in Developing Entrepreneurship and SMEs in the Philippines
• 10. SME Policies and SME Linkage Development in Singapore
• 11. SME Development in Thailand’s Automotive Industry
• 12. Developing Entrepreneurship and SMEs in Southeast Asia’s Transitional Economies