High technology and globalization challenges facing overseas Chinese entrepreneurs.

Introduction

From the extremity of World War II until the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 the economies of East Asia, from Vietnam to Taiwan, grew rapidly (Aggarwal, 1999) As the financial crisis extremityed the region settled back into steady, albeit slower growing Much of that economic activity is traceable to the commercial activities of a single ethnic group--the Overseas Chinese (Backman, 1995; Chen, 2001; Weidenbaum and Hughes, 1996) (1) Overseas Chinese are of Chinese seemly but live outside of Mainland China. (2) Historically, of that kind individuals played important, if not dominant parts in the East Asian economies of Indonesia, Malaysia, The