TY - BOOK ID - 7686964 TI - The rhythm of strategy : a corporate biography of the Salim Group of Indonesia PY - 2007 SN - 9053560335 9786611191139 1281191132 9048501040 9789048501045 9789053560334 9781281191137 PB - [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Chinese -- Indonesia. KW - Conglomerate corporations -- Indonesia. KW - Corporations, Chinese -- Indonesia. KW - Family-owned business enterprises -- Indonesia. KW - Salim group. KW - Industrial Management KW - Management KW - Business & Economics KW - Conglomerate corporations KW - Family-owned business enterprises KW - Chinese KW - Corporations, Chinese KW - Salim Group. KW - Chinese corporations KW - Business enterprises, Family-owned KW - Family business KW - Family businesses KW - Family enterprises KW - Family firms KW - Chaebols KW - Conglomerate mergers KW - Conglomerates (Corporations) KW - Corporations, Conglomerate KW - Keiretsu KW - Mergers, Conglomerate KW - Business enterprises KW - Consolidation and merger of corporations KW - Corporations KW - Industrial concentration KW - Competition UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7686964 AB - The Rhythm of Strategy provides a richly documented analysis of the Salim Group, one of the largest family conglomerates in Southeast Asia. Set up by Liem Sioe Liong, a Chinese emigrant, the Salim Group evolved from a small trading venture in colonial Java into one of the largest diversified businesses on the Asian continent. While the Salim Group is generally reluctant to provide information on its strategy to the general public, this volume proposes that the conglomerate's strategy oscillates between a business model built on connections and a professional model adapted to markets. Dismissing the view that the group is a typical Chinese ethnic firm-in which the cultural values of the founding family influences corporate behavior-The Rhythm of Strategy argues that the group's strategy made sense in the evolving institutional context of Indonesia, which is characterized by high transaction costs, corruption, political risk, and ample business opportunities to cater to a large and rapidly growing consumer base. ER -