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Impact of the Asian Crisis on Capitalism in Post-crisis Asian Business Environments

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The Asian crisis of 1997 has already had powerful national, regional and global consequences. At the present time, three years later, regional recovery is well underway although the possibility of an aftershock cannot be entirely ruled out. Yet the crisis caused more disruption in the East Asian region than any other economic event of the past 50 years.

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  1. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

    Usha C. V. Haley

  2. World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland

    Frank-Jürgen Richter

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Robins, F. (2002). Impact of the Asian Crisis on Capitalism in Post-crisis Asian Business Environments. In: Haley, U.C.V., Richter, FJ. (eds) Asian Post-crisis Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230595835_16

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