“…Third, a significant number of scholars (see for example, Amante, 1998;Andrews & Chompusri, 2005;Rowley, 1998;Rowley & Benson, 2002;Warner, 1998Warner, , 2002 have examined the convergence-divergence thesis in the Asian context. Though, over the last decade or so, research evidence has helped to supplant the convergence view, recent investigations in the Asian region (see Warner, 2000Warner, , 2002 emphasize the notion of "soft convergence" as an outcome of globalization.…”