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Building bridges, carving niches : an enduring legacy / Grace Loh, Goh Chor Boon, Tan Teng Lang.
Lippincott Library HG3300.67 .O96 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loh, Grace.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tan, Chin Tuan.
- Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation--History.
- Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation.
- Banks and banking, Chinese--Singapore.
- Banks and banking, Chinese.
- Bankers--Singapore--Biography.
- Bankers.
- History.
- Singapore.
- Local Subjects:
- Tan, Chin Tuan.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 280 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- A ground breaking book chronicling the rise of the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) from its humble beginnings in the days of the Great Depression to its distinguished status among the world's top 500 banks. Recounts the unique business model that combined Chinese values with Western Management and transformed it from a dialect-based family concern into a modern innovative institution. Study also based on private collection of Tan Sri TanChin Tuan, who was instrumental in the transformation of the traditional family bank into a modern economic institution.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195940059
- OCLC:
- 47118726
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