Trust and Antitrust in Asian Business Alliances

HOCK-BENG CHEAH School of Business, University of New South Wales, Canberra, AustraliaCHEI HWEE CHUA INSEAD, SingaporeDIETER ERNST East-West Center, HawaiiSIMON EVENETT World Trade Institute, SwitzerlandTONY FANG Assistant Professor, Stockholm University School of Business, SwedenANNA GOUSSEVSKAIA Research Fellow, Unit for the study of Innovation, Knowledge and Organisational Networks, Warwick Business SchoolRENÉ HAAK Deputy Director and Head of Business and Economics Section of the German Institute for Japanese Studies, TokyoYOKO ISHIKURA ICS, Graduate School of Internation Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University, TokyoPAWEL KOMENDER Simon, Kucher & Partners, TokyoJOHN BARRY KOTCH Graduate School of International Studies, KoreaGILL-CHIN LIM Professor of Asian Studies, Michigan State UniversityLOW SUI PHENG School of Design and Environment, National University of SingaporePHILIPPE RÉGNIER Director, Centre de Recherche sur L'Asie Moderne, GenevaGUNTHER STAHL INSEAD, SingaporeLIONEL STAPLEY IVAN TSELICHTCHEVDAVID WONG Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaMICHAEL YEOH Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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JOHN B. KIDD was educated in the UK and worked for several major UK organizations before returning to University scholarship. In the Universities of Birmingham and now Aston Business School his research focused on the development of IT use in SMEs; the management of projects; and the softer management issues that concern multi-national joint ventures. He has held visiting professorships in several European Universities, and in the China Europe International Business School, Shanghai. FRANK-JRGEN RICHTER is the Director in charge of Asia at the World Economic Forum, Geneva.