TY - BOOK ID - 30963388 TI - Business Groups in East Asia PY - 2006 SN - 0191536954 1423757335 1281154512 9786611154516 9780191536953 9780199287345 0199287341 PB - Oxford OUP Oxford DB - UniCat KW - Conglomerate corporations KW - Financial crises KW - East Asia KW - Economic conditions KW - Chaebols KW - Conglomerate mergers KW - Conglomerates (Corporations) KW - Corporations, Conglomerate KW - Keiretsu KW - Mergers, Conglomerate KW - Asia, East KW - Asia, Eastern KW - East (Far East) KW - Eastern Asia KW - Far East KW - Consolidation and merger of corporations KW - Corporations KW - Industrial concentration KW - Competition KW - Orient UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30963388 AB - The 1997 Asian Crisis principally affected Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Korea, as well as other East Asian countries heavily dependent on intra-regional trade. Banks and other financial institutions quickly become insolvent, and heavily indebted industrial firms went bankrupt. Many of these firms were affiliated with the business groups of this region, yet most groups did not immediately collapse, indeed they proved remarkably robust, some surviving and even prospering.This book examines these East Asian business groups and their subsequent restructuring following the Asian Crisis. East ER -