Changing Asian Business Systems: Globalization, Socio-Political Change, and Economic Organization
Richard Whitley and Xiaoke Zhang
Abstract
This book examines the changing patterns of economic organization across Northeast and Southeast Asia against the backdrop of market liberalization, political changes and periodic economic crises since the 1990s. 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. It makes important contributions to current theoretical and policy debates on the comparative analys ... More
This book examines the changing patterns of economic organization across Northeast and Southeast Asia against the backdrop of market liberalization, political changes and periodic economic crises since the 1990s. 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. It makes important contributions to current theoretical and policy debates on the comparative analysis of socio-economic institutions and dominant forms of economic organization by: (1) mapping recent changes in the major business systems of Northeast and Southeast Asian economies; (2) developing a range of causal propositions about how changing institutions and socio-political coalitions are affecting the nature of Asian business organizations; and (3) illustrating the causal pathways through which changing business systems have shaped the development of innovation patterns and strategies in the region.
Keywords:
changing business systems,
East Asia,
institutional change,
socio-political coalitions,
innovation strategies,
internationalization and dominant national business systems
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198729167 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2016 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198729167.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Richard Whitley, editor
Emeritus Professor of Organisational Sociology, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
Xiaoke Zhang, editor
Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester
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