vii Contents List of Tables x List of Figures xii Notes on the Contributors xiii Part 1 Introduction 1 Post-crisis Management Strategies in Asia: An Overview 3 Usha C. V. Haley Part 2 Post-crisis Corporate Strategies 2 Corporate Responses to the Asian Financial Crisis 17 Masaaki Kotabe and Shruti Gupta 3 Corporate Finance and its Impact on Corporate Strategy after the Bubble: Is the Long-term Strategy of Japanese Firms Really Changing? 34 Yasuhiro Arikawa and Hideaki Miyajima 4 Internet-based Strategies in Asia’s Post-crisis Emerging Economies 53 George T. Haley 5 Global Strategic Management of German MNCs in China: Patterns and Determinants of Sustainable Competitive Advantage in the Aftermath of the Asian Crisis 64 Brij N. Kumar, Yunshi Mao and Birgit Ensslinger 6 Kairos: Strategies Just in Time in the Asian Athletic Footwear Industry 81 Nancy E. Landrum and David M. Boje 7 The Realization of Meanings: Understanding Expatriates’ Needs in the Asian Post-crisis Environment 102 Xue Li, John B. Kidd and Frank-Jürgen Richter