Changing Asian business systems : globalization, socio-political change, and economic organization /
edited by Richard Whitley, Xiaoke Zhang.
- xii, 448 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the comparative analysis of changing business systems in Asia / Richard Whitley and Xiaoke Zhang -- Part I. Changes and continuities in Asian business systems. Changing business systems in East Asia : continued diversity between, and varied changes in, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan / Richard Whitley -- Institutions, dominant coalitions, and firms : comparing how Japan and Korea responded to deregulation, globalization, and competition in the telecommunications industry / Glenn Morgan and Izumi Kubo -- Systems of corporate governance in East Asia : continued divergence despite global pressure / Christina L. Ahmadjian -- Changes in Japanese and South Korean employment practices : lessons on the character of institutional change and of business systems / Arjan Keizer -- Business system evolution and the indigenization of multi-national enterprise practice transfers in Thailand and Myanmar : an 'emic' perspective / Tim G. Andrews, Khin Thi Htun, and Khongphu Nimanandh -- Part II. Socio-political structuring of Asian business systems. Change with continuity : Asian capitalism in transition / Gary G. Hamilton and Solee Shin -- State structures and business system changes in East Asia / Richard W. Carney -- Change and continuity in corporate governance structures : a study of Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore / Lai Si Tsui-Auch, Jun Jie Yang, and Toru Yoshikawa -- Socio-political structures and market organization in regional industrial systems / Xiaoke Zhang -- Financial reform and change in Asian business systems / Leslie Young -- Part III. Business systems, institutions, and innovation strategies. Compressed development, business systems, and innovation : the importance of timing and agency in economic and institutional development and change / D. Hugh Whittaker, Timothy J. Sturgeon, and Lei Song -- Entrepreneurial communities and the state : the emergence of Korea's on-line gaming industry / Steve Casper and Cornelia Storz -- How variations in business systems affect the innovativeness of Chinese firms : historical background, framework, and case studies / Jiajia Liu and Andrew Tylecote -- Innovation systems, strategies, and corporate performance in China and South Korea / Dennis McNamara -- Conclusion : Asian business systems -- changes, causes, and consequences / Xiaoke Zhang and Richard Whitley.
"This book brings together scholars from different disciplines to examine the evolving patterns of economic organisation across Northeast and Southeast Asia against the backdrop of market liberalisation, political changes and periodic economic crises since the 1990s. More specifically, it provides an interdisciplinary account of variations, continuities and changes in the institutional structures that shape business systems and practices and govern innovation patterns, together with analyses of their impact on established systems of economic coordination and control. In line with this analytical focus, the project has three different yet interrelated objectives. In the first place, building on the comparative business systems framework, it elucidates the nature and properties of business system changes and continuities in Asia since the 1990s. Second, it develops novel theoretical propositions concerning the primary causes of these changes and continuities, representing a collective effort to theorise the changing varieties of Asian economic organisation. Finally, it explores the causal pathways through which the changing institutional structures governing business systems have shaped and reshaped innovation strategies and trajectories across the national, sectoral and firm levels of analysis."--Publisher's description.