(p. xviii) Abbreviations
(p. xviii) Abbreviations
AAIT Anglo American Investment Trust | |
ADA Anil Dhirubhai Ambani | |
ADR American depository receipt | |
AFTA ASEAN Free Trade Area | |
ANC African National Congress | |
ASEAN Association of South East Asian Nations | |
BAT British American Tobacco | |
BEE Black Economic Empowerment | |
BEEC Black Economic Empowerment Commission | |
BGT Business Groups in Taiwan | |
BIBF Bangkok International Banking Facilities | |
BIS Bank of International Settlements | |
BMB Bangkok Metropolitan Bank | |
BMV Mexican Securities Exchange | |
BNDE Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico | |
BNDES Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (National Bank for Economic and Social Development) | |
BOI Board of Investment | |
BOT Bank of Thailand | |
CCIS China Credit Information Service | |
CDRAC Corporate Debt Restructuring Advisory Committee | |
CEO chief executive officer | |
CMHN Consejo Mexicano de Hombres de Negocios (Mexican Council of Businessmen) | |
CMPC Compania Manufacturera de Papeles y Cartones | |
COPEC Compañía de Petróleos de Chile SA | |
CPO Certificados de Praticipación Ordinarias | |
CRC Central Retail Corporation | |
CSMAR China Stock Market and Accounting Research Database | |
CSN Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional | |
CUL Cambridge University Library | |
CVM Comissão de Valores Imobiliários | |
DBCM De Beers Consolidated Mines | |
EAEA East Asian Economic Association | |
EGAT Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand | |
EU European Union | |
FASB Financial Accounting Standards Board | |
FDI foreign direct investment | |
(p. xix) FIG financial–industrial groups | |
FVB Federale Volksbeleggings | |
GDP gross domestic product | |
GHQ General Headquarters | |
GHL Guildhall Library | |
GTC general trading company | |
HCI heavy and chemical industries | |
HCLC Holding Company Liquidation Commission | |
HHI Herfindahl–Hirschman index | |
IASC International Accounting Standards Committee | |
IC integrated circuit | |
IDC Industrial Development Corporation | |
IMF International Monetary Fund | |
IPO initial public offering | |
ISA Israel Securities Authority | |
ISI import substitution industrialization | |
ISIC International Standard of Industrial Classification | |
ITRI Industrial Technology Research Institute | |
JEL Journal of Economic Literature | |
JMA Jardine Matheson Archives | |
JSE Johannesburg Stock Exchange | |
KMT Kuomintang | |
LG Lucky‐Goldstar | |
LSE London Stock Exchange | |
M&A mergers and acquisitions | |
MAS Monetary Authority of Singapore | |
MBR market to book value ratio | |
MERCOSUR Mercado Común del Sur | |
MNE multinational enterprise | |
MRTP Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices (Act) | |
NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement | |
NDVR Non‐Voting Depository Receipts | |
NEDB National Economic Development Board (later NESDB) | |
NEIO New Empirical Industrial Organization | |
NLI Nippon Life Insurance | |
NSBC National Statistics Bureau of China | |
OBM own brand manufacture | |
ODFI outward direct foreign investment | |
ODM own design and manufacture | |
OEC Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development | |
OEM original equipment manufacture/manufacturer/manufacturing | |
PACs Persons Acting in Concert | |
PEIF private equity investment fund | |
POSB Post Office of Singapore Bank | |
PPVA post‐production value added | |
PTT Petroleum Authority of Thailand | |
R&D research and development | |
(p. xx) RDP Reconstruction and Development Program | |
ROA return on assets | |
SAIC State Administration for Industry and Commerce | |
SASAC State‐Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council | |
SBDC Small Business Development Corporation | |
SCAP Supreme Command of the Allied Powers | |
SFE stochastic frontier estimation | |
SIC Standard Industrial Classification | |
SME small and medium enterprise | |
SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies | |
SOE state‐owned enterprise | |
SSRN Social Science Research Network | |
SVS Chilean Superintendence of Securities | |
TASE Tel Aviv Stock Exchange | |
TEV township and village enterprise | |
TNC transnational corporation | |
TSD Thailand Securities Depository (TSD) | |
TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation | |
UAC United Africa Company | |
UERT Unión Explosivos Río Tinto | |
UMC United Microelectronics Corporation | |
VGG Valor Grandes Grupos | |
WSOE wholly state‐owned enterprise | |
WTO World Trade Organization |