Taiwanese Firms in Southeast Asia

Networking Across Borders

New Horizons in International Business series

Edited by Tain-Jy Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Taiwanese Firms in Southeast Asia provides a comprehensive review of Taiwan’s direct investment in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam. It also explores the motivation behind investment in Asia, Europe and the US.

‘Rather one of the merits of this book is that it brings up numerous issues calling for further research. This work has opened the way and set down a solid foundation for future research, for which I would like to express to the contributors of this study my fullest approval and gratitude.’
– Yukihito Sato, The Developing Economies

‘The strength of this book lies in the solid empirical data it presents, in the effectiveness of the network approach, and in the comparative perspective which makes it a useful reference for students interested in both FDI and business networking in East and Southeast Asia.’
– Hong Liu, China Information

‘To sum up, by bringing together a large amount of data that is all the more useful in that it is not always easy to get hold of, this work offers us a general and rather complete study of the movement of Taiwanese DI into Southeast Asia.’
– Peter Brown, China Perspectives