title: Global Strategies for Asian Businesses: Practical Steps for Your Business Road Map
author: Anthony H.K. Lai
description: Anthony has been in the banking and financial services industry for more than two decades. He started his career in the UK with Arthur Andersen. He subsequently joined the financial services sector in the area of corporate finance, focusing on mergers and acquisitions (M&A). He also assisted private companies to go public via initial public offerings (IPO). Shortly after returning to Asia, Anthony had the opportunity to experience first hand, the Asian Financial Crisis. He helped his clients to maneuver the downturn through M&A and restructuring deals. Subsequently, Anthony rode the dot-com wave (boom and bust) and assisted in the IPOs of technology companies. Anthony headed regional teams at investment banks including Barclays Capital, Royal Bank of Scotland and Deutsche Bank in investment banking, regional restructuring and integration initiatives. Currently, Anthony is in the Treasury business segment of a Singapore bank. Anthony spent his formative years in the UK since his boarding school days and subsequently graduated from the University of Warwick, UK. He has also completed an executive education program in Products and Services Innovation by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Sloan School of Management and Emeritus.
zlib_text: (C) Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
  
  Rien T. Segers (ed.)Multinational Management10.1007/978-3-319-23012-2_1
  
  # Introduction
  
  Rien T. Segers1, 2
  
  (1)
  
  International Business School, Hanze University OAS, Groningen, The
  Netherlands
  
  (2)
  
  Clingendael Netherlands Institute of International Relations, The Hague, The
  Netherlands
  
  Rien T. Segers
  
  Email: [m.t.m.segers@pl.hanze.nl](mailto:m.t.m.segers@pl.hanze.nl)
  
  Abstract
  
  Asia will soon reshape the global economic landscape. This undoubtedly will
  result in a change in the global power center--both soft and hard--from the
  West to the East. In global business, interactions between Asia and the West
  will most likely intensify. The West will encounter Asian values more than
  before in a working environment. In this book, we want to emphasize that
  hundreds of Asian companies will reach out to the world and enter the global
  market. At this moment, most of these new companies are relatively unknown in
  the West. The message of thi