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Free Download Business and Management in Asia: Disruption and Change: Disruption and Change by Tobias Endress, Yuosre F. Badir
English | March 29, 2024 | ISBN: 9819993709 | 196 pages | MOBI | 3.20 Mb
This book focuses on "Disruption and Change" in the Asian region. In this context, managers and policymakers face a fast transformation of existing structures and business environments. From a business perspective, change is the adoption of business strategies, activities, and operations that meet the needs of the firm and its stakeholder today while protecting, sustaining, and enhancing the human and natural resources that will be needed in the future. Disruption refers to the radical changes in existing industries or markets due to technological innovation breakthroughs. There is a consensus among scholars and practitioners that organizations must manage the change well to flourish in a competitive business environment. Many business models need to be rethought to establish new ways to stay competitive. The book, with its practical examples, gives the reader impulses for new Asian’s approaches and encourages the readers to dare to think and act in new ways.

Free Download United Nations, "Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in Asia and the Pacific"
English | 2009 | pages: 131 | ISBN: 9211205786 | PDF | 1,8 mb
The study is focused on the impact food insecurity on the Asia-Pacific region and how to deal with it. Access to food and not the supply of food is central to food security. Thus, Governments need to develop and strengthen social protection programmes and improve the availability of food at the national and local levels. In the medium term, it is critical to support the revitalization of small-scale sustainable food production. The study examines the environmental, economic and social challenges that are the roots of the region.

Free Download Linda Yanti Sulistiawati, "Environmental Courts and Tribunals in Asia-Pacific: Best Practices, Challenges and the Way Forward "
English | ISBN: 9004522328 | 2024 | 344 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Environmental Courts and Tribunals in Asia-Pacific is an in-depth treatment of the features, best practices, challenges and future prospects for environmental courts and tribunals (ECTs) in the Asia-Pacific region. ECTs play an important role in improving environmental dispute resolution, access to environmental justice and environmental governance, but data and academic analysis on ECTs are very limited. This book fills that gap, with ten chapters authored by leading academics, judges and lawyers from multiple jurisdictions, including Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines and Sri Lanka, as well as pan-Asia-Pacific and global perspectives

Free Download John McKay, "Contemporary Asia: Continuities, Challenges and Transformations "
English | ISBN: 135046693X | 2024 | 264 pages | PDF | 5 MB
For the first time in the modern era, Asia is not dominated by an outside power. Is this the Asian Century? Will internal rivalries emerge between China, Japan and India? How will growing tensions between the United States and China shape the global economic, strategic and political system? Covering governance, culture, and society in East and South Asia, this book introduces: – Key economic developments, including the Asian economic miracle and the 1997/8 Financial Crisis – The central role of education, and the contentious debate about ‘Asian values’ – The rapid expansion of military spending in the region – The demography and geography of major nations and their forms of nationalism With further reading suggestions and discussion questions for every chapter, this is essential introductory reading for students of Asian Studies and interested general readers alike.

Free Download George Bryan Souza, "Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese in Maritime Asia, c.1585 – 1800: Merchants, Commodities and Commerce "
English | ISBN: 1472417003 | 2014 | 346 pages | EPUB | 1528 KB
This collection of 13 essays deals with a range of topics concerning Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese merchants, commodities and commerce in maritime Asia in the early modern period from c. 1585-1800. They are based on exhaustive research and careful analysis of diverse sets of archival materials found around the globe. Written by a leading authority on global maritime economic history and the history of European Expansion, each individual essay addresses a topic of fundamental importance to those interested in knowing more about what merchants did (with which resources and under what conditions) and how they did it, what were the commodities that were incorporated into local, regional, intra-regional and global economies, and what was the role and function of early modern maritime trade and commerce in economic development in general and especially in Asia in the early modern era, from c. 1585-1800. A number of them, in particular, relate the individual or collective merchant experience to specific European (Portuguese and Dutch) imperial projects and their contestation amongst themselves and their indigenous neighbours over portions of the period. Collectively, they form an exposition of a utilitarian view of human activity under a wide-ranging different set of circumstances and conditions but with similar patterns of behaviors and responses that are largely independent from ethnic, racial or religious stereotyping. The work therefore should raise new issues and avenues of research concerning these agents and objects in European Expansion, Asian and Global History.

Free Download Randall Peerenboom, "Human Rights in Asia: A Comparative Legal Study of Twelve Asian Jurisdictions, France and the USA"
English | 2006 | pages: 543 | ISBN: 0415360021, 0203008154 | PDF | 1,9 mb
Human Rights in Asia considers how human rights are viewed and implemented in Asia. It covers not just civil and political rights, but also social, economic and cultural rights.

Free Download Ming-Chang Tsai, "Global Exposure in East Asia: A Comparative Study of Microglobalization "
English | ISBN: 1409441466 | 2015 | 208 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In contrast to speculative, sweeping literature on globalization Global Exposure in East Asia grounds globalization theories in a detailed empirical analysis, providing a systematic investigation of what until now have been grand narratives of huge global phenomena. This book presents a micro-level explanation of globalization by examining individual global exposure and its influence in the values and perceptions of individuals, contending that individual and personal global experience, or ‘microglobalization’, is a key variable in understanding how modern mobile persons act and think in ways different from those who remain geographically immobile and constrained. Drawing on detailed empirical evidence from China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, Global Exposure in East Asia explores the structures of global exposure and their influences on values and identities in contemporary East Asia. A rich, comparative and grounded examination of modern theories of globalization, this book introduces an innovative perspective that highlights the significance of microglobalization in understanding quotidian lives in a context of ever expanding transnational exchanges and connectivities. As such, it will appeal to social scientists with interests in globalization, cosmopolitanism, mobility, migration and transnationalism, (national) identity and everyday life.

Free Download A. Tan, "Security Strategies in the Asia-Pacific: The United States’ "Second Front" in Southeast Asia"
English | ISBN: 0230116833 | 2011 | 271 pages | EPUB | 683 KB
This book argues that, given the existence of a discrete Malay archipelago security complex, it is a fallacy for the United States to approach this region primarily through the prism of global counter-terrorism

Free Download World’s ancient civilizations of Europe, Asia, Africa and America by Samuel Greenberg
English | August 4, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DC6V6BXS | 107 pages | EPUB | 8.02 Mb
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Free Download Southeast Asia-North Korea Relations: Drivers, Linkages, and Strategic Ambivalence
by Chiew-Ping Hoo, Shine Choi
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032435917 | 257 Pages | True PDF | 4.58 MB