Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems

Much of the existing literature within the "varieties of capitalism " (VOC) and "comparative business systems " fields of research is heavily focused on Europe, Japan, and the Anglo-Saxon nations. As a result, the field has yet to produce a detailed empirical picture of the institutional structures of most Asian nations and to explore to what extent existing theory applies to the Asian context.

The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems aims to address this imbalance by exploring the shape and consequences of institutional variations across the political economies of different societies within Asia. Drawing on the deep knowledge of 32 leading experts, this book presents an empirical, comparative institutional analysis of 13 major Asian business systems between India and Japan. To aid comparison, each country chapter follows the same consistent outline. Complementing the country chapters are eleven contributions examining major themes across the region in comparative perspective and linking the empirical picture to existing theory on these themes. A further three chapters provide perspectives on the influence of history and institutional change. The concluding chapters spell out the implications of all these chapters for scholars in the field and for business practitioners in Asia.

The Handbook is a major reference work for scholars researching the causes of success and failure in international business in Asia.

List of contents

• 1: Michael A. Witt and Gordon Redding: Introduction


• PART I ASIAN BUSINESS SYSTEMS


• 2: Michael A. Witt and Gordon Redding: China: Authoritarian Capitalism


• 3: Gordon Redding, Gilbert Y. Y. Wong, and William K. W. Leung: Hong Kong: Hybrid Capitalism as Catalyst


• 4: Lawrence Saez: India: From Failed Developmental State Towards Hybrid Market Capitalism


• 5: Andrew James Rosser: Indonesia: Oligarchic Capitalism


• 6: Michael A. Witt: Japan: Coordinated Capitalism Between Institutional Change and Structural Inertia


• 7: Edo Andriesse: Laos: Frontier Capitalism


• 8: Michael Carney and Edo Andriesse: Malasia: Personal Capitalism


• 9: Mari Kondo: The Philippines: Inequality-Trapped Capitalism


• 10: Richard W. Carney: Singapore: Open State-Led Capitalism


• 11: Michael A. Witt: South Korea: Plutocratic State-Led Capitalism Reconfiguring


• 12: Taiwan: SME-Oriented Capitalism in Transition


• 13: Akira Suehiro and Natenapha Wailerdsak: Thailand: Post-Developmentalist Capitalism


• 14: Quang Truong and Chris Rowley: Vietnam: Post-State Capitalism


• PART II THEMES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE


• 15: Michael Carney: Business Groups in Asia: An Institutional Perspective


• 16: Christina L. Ahmadjian: Corporate Governance and Business Systems in Asia


• 17: Gordon Redding, Michael Harris Bond, and Michael A.Witt: Culture and the Business Systems of Asia


• 18: Stephen J. Frenkel and Kyoung-Hee Yu: Employment Relations and Human Resource Management in Asia: Explaining Patterns in Asian Societies


• 19: Leslie Young: Financial Systems in Asia: Where Politics Meets Development


• 20: Axèle Giroud: MNEs in Asian Business Systems


• 21: Arnoud De Meyer: National RandD Systems and Technology Development in Asia


• 22: Arie Y. Lewin and Xing Zhong: The Co-evolution of Global Sourcing of Business Support Functions and the Economic Development of Asian Emerging Economies


• 23: Peter Ping Li and Gordon Redding: Social Capital in Asia: Its Dual Nature and Function


• 24: Richard W. Carney and Michael A. Witt: The Role of the State in Asian Business Systems


• 25: Shige Makino and Daphne W. Yiu: A Survey of Strategic Behaviour and Firm Performance in Asia


• PART III EVOLUTIONARY TRAJECTORIES


• 26: Regina M. Abrami: Pictures of the Past: Historical Influences in Contemporary Asian Business Systems


• 27: Solee Shin and Gary G. Hamilton: Beyond Production: Changing Dynamics of Asian Business Groups


• 28: Richard Whitley: Change and Continuity in East Asian Business Systems


• PART IV CONCLUSIONS


• 29: Michael A. Witt and Gordon Redding: Asian Business Systems: Implications and Perspectives for Comparative Business Systems and Varieties of Capitalism Research


• 30: Gordon Redding and Michael A. Witt: Asian Business Systems: Implications for Managerial Practice

About the author

Michael A. Witt is a Professor of Asian Business and Comparative Management at the Singapore campus of INSEAD. He is the General Editor of Asian Business & Management, an SSCI-listed journal on business and management in the Asian context. He is an Associate in Research at the Reischauer Institute at Harvard University, and for 2011/12, he held a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers to conduct research at the Free University Berlin. His other books include The Future of Chinese Capitalism, with Gordon Redding (OUP, 2007), Changing Japanese Capitalism (CUP, 2006), and an eight-volume edited compilation of seminal contributions on Asian business and its institutional context, Major Works in Asian Business and Management (SAGE, 2012). He has published many articles in leading journals, including the Socio-Economic Review, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and Asian Business & Management.

Gordon Redding is based at INSEAD in Singapore, teaching Asian business. He holds an Emeritus Professorship at the University of Hong Kong where he taught for twenty-four years, and where he founded and directed the business school. He is also Secretary-General of the HEAD Foundation in Singapore, a think-tank devoted to regional issues of social capital and development via higher education. His books include The Working Class Manager (Saxon House), Spirit of Chinese Capitalism (de Gruyter), The Enterprise and Management in East Asia (Centre of Asian Studies), edited with Stewart Clegg and Dexter Dunphy, Capitalism in Contrasting Cultures (de Gruyter), edited with Stewart Clegg, International Cultural Differences (Dartmouth), and Cross-Cultural Management (Elgar) with Bruce Stening. A long collaboration with Peter Berger resulted in the co-editing of The Hidden Form of Capital (Anthem).

Summary

Much of the existing literature within the "varieties of capitalism " (VOC) and "comparative business systems " fields of research is heavily focused on Europe, Japan, and the Anglo-Saxon nations. As a result, the field has yet to produce a detailed empirical picture of the institutional structures of most Asian nations and to explore to what extent existing theory applies to the Asian context.

The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems aims to address this imbalance by exploring the shape and consequences of institutional variations across the political economies of different societies within Asia. Drawing on the deep knowledge of 32 leading experts, this book presents an empirical, comparative institutional analysis of 13 major Asian business systems between India and Japan. To aid comparison, each country chapter follows the same consistent outline. Complementing the country chapters are eleven contributions examining major themes across the region in comparative perspective and linking the empirical picture to existing theory on these themes. A further three chapters provide perspectives on the influence of history and institutional change. The concluding chapters spell out the implications of all these chapters for scholars in the field and for business practitioners in Asia.

The Handbook is a major reference work for scholars researching the causes of success and failure in international business in Asia.

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The individual chapters are excellently written ... Whether as a reference or a first step into this interesting and eclectic school of thought, the Handbook will prove a useful tool.

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The individual chapters are excellently written ... Whether as a reference or a first step into this interesting and eclectic school of thought, the Handbook will prove a useful tool. Francis E. Hutchinson, Journal of Southeast Asian Economics

Product details

• Authors: Gordon Redding, Michael A. Witt, Michael A. (Professor of Asian Business and Witt, Michael A. Redding Witt
• Assisted by: Gordon Redding (Editor), Redding Gordon (Editor), Michael A. Witt (Editor), Witt Michael A. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2013
• EAN: 9780199654925
• ISBN: 978-0-19-965492-5
• No. of pages: 752
• Series: Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management; Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; Management und Managementtechniken, Entwicklungsökonomie und Schwellenländer, Asia, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, Business / Economics / Finance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, International business, Business studies: general, Political Economy