Corporate Governance and the Global Reach of Chinese Family Firms in Singapore

Acknowledgments

We wish to thank the Korea Economic Research Institute and the Institute of Economic Research, Seoul National University, for kindly inviting the first author to present the paper at the Symposium on Corporate Governance and Restructuring in East Asia held in Seoul National University, South Korea, 25 August 2000. Constructive comments from the discussant, Young-Ryeol Park, and Kwang Sun Chung, Usha Haley, Keun Lee, Young Lee, and other conference participants are gratefully acknowledged. Although every effort has been made to incorporate their suggestions, we are solely responsible for any shortcomings of this paper.

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