Yong Yen Nie

Assistant Professor, Kyoto University

family business, institutions, Entrepreneurial History, Commodities, Industrialization, International Business, East Asia, East Asian modern business history
Business Historians at Business Schools

I study entrepreneurship in emerging economies from a historical perspective. My research focuses on Southeast Asia, a region that was colonized by Western imperial powers. I am interested to know how a cosmopolitan society of local and migrant entrepreneurs interacted and adapted to shifting ideas of nation-state and the economy in the colonial and postcolonial era. My recent publication: “Crafting a Postcolonial (Inter)National Identity: Malaysian Pewter Company Royal Selangor’s Branding Strategies (1970–1992).” Enterprise & Society, 2022, 1–31. doi:10.1017/eso.2022.30.

Recent Conference Participation

2025 BHC meeting: Presenter, "The Singapore Girl: Idealizations of Work and National Identity in Postcolonial Singapore, 1970s–2000s"
2022 BHC Meeting : Presenter, "From Craft to Industry and Back: Malaya’s Role in Maintaining Tin’s Relevance to Early Industrialization (1930s–1960s)"