Prof. Dr. Murray Hunter

Who rules Singapore?

The only true mercantile state in the world

The story of Singapore is an intriguing one. It's about how an island at the bottom of the Malay Peninsula developed into a modern city state and...

Australia in the "Asian Century" or is it Lost in Asia?

Australia maintains a delusion of reality China and the US - The Australian dilemma.

The Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard released a long awaited white paper Australia in the Asian Century yesterday, which has been "wowed" by...

Who Really Rules Australia?: A tragic tale of the Australian People

An inconvenient question The question of "who rules Australia?" is always answered with pet ideas and different theories. We can see symbols of...

The SMRT Labour Dispute: Symptoms of a dirty business

Corporate greed, old authoritarian hangovers, and demographic changes in the foreign labour industry

Late last month 171 Chinese national bus drivers who were employed by the Singapore Government controlled bus and underground railway company SMRT...

Do Asian Management Paradigms Exist? A look at four theoretical frames.

Interest in Asian business and management practices developed during the Japanese business emergence in the 1980s. The rise of the Asian tigers in...

ASEAN Nations need indigenous innovation to transform their economies but are doing little about it

With the exception of Singapore, which can be considered a developed city-state, most members of ASEAN are still developing nations, with a few still...

From Europe, to the US, Japan, and onto China

The evolution of the automobile

The pre-automobile era Even though the railways existed in Britain, Europe, and America by the late 1880s, most road transport was still...

Lessons from the Invention of the airplane and the Beginning of the Aviation Era

No other concept had been dreamed about more than the ability of man to undertake powered flight. Ever since the Greek Mythology of Icarus and...

Missed Opportunities for ASEAN if the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) fails to start up in 2015

ASEAN potential as a major trade player Although the pundits state that the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) and ASEAN Economic community (AEC) will...

Perpetual self conflict

Self awareness as a key to our ethical drive, personal mastery, and perception of entrepreneurial opportunities

This paper considers the nexus between the environment, self and reality, and the influence upon ethics, entrepreneurial opportunity, and...

Samsara and the Organization

A person’s perception continually ebbs and flows on a daily basis with changes in intelligence, knowledge and understanding, based on the type of...

The Arrival of Petroleum, Rockefeller, and the Lessons He taught Us

Before the arrival of petroleum there were a number of different fuels that could be used for light and power. Coal became an important fuel in...

The five types of thinking we use

The human brain has evolved over many millions of years. Our brain cells, neurotransmitters, synapses, and processes are not much different from...

Where do entrepreneurial opportunities come from?

An opportunity is a gap in the market where there is the potential to do something different and create value (Wickham 2004). This represents a...

People tend to start businesses for the wrong reasons

People undertaking strategic analysis or some type of strategic planning to develop ideas and strategies for a new potential business could not be...

One Man, Multiple Inventions: The lessons and legacies of Thomas Edison

Looking at entrepreneurship & innovation through biographies There are so many different interactive forces impacting upon both the individual...

Knowledge, Understanding and the God Paradigm

The existence or non-existence of God has become an exercise in semantics. On one side we have the theologians espousing “God” as the...

Do Confucian Principled Businesses Exist in Asia?

Confucius was born with the name K’ung Ch’iu in the Lũ Kingdom of China in 551 BC, and was in later life called K’ung Fu-Tzu (Master Kung)...

Integrating the philosophy of Tawhid – an Islamic approach to organization

World events and media portrayal of Islam over the last few decades has projected negative images, which are based on a total misunderstanding of...

How we create new ideas

Have you ever thought where do our ideas come from? How do we develop entrepreneurial ideas from random concepts in our mind? At the cognitive level...

How motivation really works

Motives push people to perceive, think and act in specific ways that attempt to satisfy needs. Motives often stay unconscious in a person, as the...

How emotions influence how we see the world

Cognition as a discipline has emerged over the last sixty years with the brain as a computer metaphor, leaving the study of emotion to behavioral...

How feudalism hinders community transformation and economic evolution

Isn’t equal opportunity a basic human right?

The Olympic Opening Ceremony last Friday night was a spectacular extraordinaire under the direction of Danny Boyle of “Slumdog Millionaire” fame....

Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunities: What’s wrong with SWOT?

SWOT analysis is one of the most commonly used strategic planning tools around the world. However SWOT’s origins are unclear and ambiguous. The...

What’s with all the hype – a look at aspirational marketing

Our realities are about what we dream and would like it to be rather than what it is. Aspirational brand strategy is concerned with creating the...

The Continuum of Psychotic Organisational Typologies

This paper discusses the influence on our perceptions from the basic psychotic disposition of organizations. Cognitive distortion is influenced by...

The Evolution of Business Strategy

Before the 1960s, strategy was referred to as “generalship”, “the art of war” and being concerned about managing army campaigns. Strategy was...

Do we have a creative intelligence?

There is no conclusive agreement about what the concept of intelligence really is. Some concepts of intelligence focused upon achievement, i.e., how...

The environment as a multi-dimensional system: Taking off your rose coloured glasses

The Pudong area of Shanghai where the World Financial centre and other spectacular buildings reside on the East-side of the Huangpu River has...

Imagination may be more important than knowledge: The eight types of imagination we use.

Imagination is the ability to form mental images, phonological passages, analogies, or narratives of something that is not perceived through our...

Groupthink may still be a hazard to your organization

Groupthink is a very popular term used in literature carrying with it very negative connotations. The word is usually used to describe decisions and...

There is no such person as an entrepreneur

Over the years a large number of personality traits have been explored and reported upon. Early work by McClelland in the 1960s postulated that the...

Generational Attitudes and Behaviour

It can be clearly seen that generational attitudes have influence upon thinking and behavior. A generation can be considered a segment of the...

Entrepreneurship is just a stage in the enterprise lifecycle

Most new businesses commence with someone seeing an opportunity and developing the resulting idea into a visualized product, service, or event in the...