Entrepreneurship and the internationalisation of Asian firms : an institutional perspective 1. An institutional perspective on entrepreneurship in international business 2. Transnational entrepreneurship in two contrasting Asian contexts : Hong Kong and Singapore 3. City states and their global reach : outward investments from Hong Kong and Singapore 4. Entrepreneurs in international business 5. Empowered managers : intrapreneurs in international business 6. Conclusion : developing entrepreneurship in international business. This book applies an institutional perspective on transnational entrepreneurship to empirical investigations of transnational corporations (TNCs) from Hong Kong and Singapore. Henry Wai chung Yeung argues that significant variations in institutional structures of home countries explain variations in the entrepreneurial endowments of prospective transnational business networks. This is illustrated by empirical data from two in depth studies of over 300 TNCs from Hong Kong and Singapore and over 120 of their foreign affiliates in Asia