Transnational Entrepreneurship in South East Asia

Title.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Table of Contents.- Author Biographies.- List of Tables.- List of Figures.- Chapter One: Perspectives on Transnational Entrepreneurship.- Chapter Two: Entrepreneurship in the Japanese Context.- Chapter Three: Japanese Self-Initiated Expatriate Entrepreneurs in South East Asia.- Chapter Four: Country Comparisons.- Chapter Five: The Future of Japanese Transnational Entrepreneurs in South East Asia.- Reference list.- Index.

Professor Yokoyama is the Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, Toyo Gakuen University, Tokyo, Japan, where she supervises research in the field of human resource management in Japanese companies by drawing comparisons between Japanese-style employment management and the merit-based systems. Her recent research is concerned with Japanese self-initiated expatriate entrepreneurs working in Southeast Asia, where she conducted researches, visiting Hong Kong, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. Her recent publications include Working in South-east Asia, Pelican Publishing Co., 2017 and Yokoyama K. & S. L. Birchley (2018). Mindset and Social Entrepreneurship, Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, Vol 4, Issue 1, pp1-21, SAGE Publications. In her early career, Yokoyama worked a total of nine years in the UN Organizations, for Employment Department in ILO, Geneva, African Bureau of UNHCR, Geneva and Personnel Division of FAO, Rome.






Professor Birchley works in the Faculty of Business Administration and the Graduate School of Business Administration, Toyo Gakuen University, Tokyo, Japan. Her research interests include diaspora entrepreneurship, tourism entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education. She has recently completed a sabbatical as a Visiting Scholar at the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas at Austin and at Cardiff University, Wales. Her recent publications include Birchley, S.L. (2018). Heritage Tourism and Entrepreneurship: Cases from the Welsh Context. Proceedings of the International Tourism Congress 2018, Quito, Ecuador and Yokoyama K. & Birchley, S.L. (2018). Mindset and Social Entrepreneurship, Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, Vol 4, Issue 1, pp1-21, SAGE. From Wales, Sarah Louisa has been an expatriate in Japan since 2001 and is working to harness the energy and potentialof the Welsh diaspora in