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The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems

The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems

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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780199654925
  • Published In: January 2014
  • Format: Hardback , 752 pages
  • Jurisdiction: Asia, China, Hong Kong ? Disclaimer:
    Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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  • First book to explore business systems across the entire region from India to Japan
  • Positioned within "Varieties of Capitalism" (VoC) and "comparative business systems" approach
  • Up-to-date empirical analyses of Asian business systems
  • Allows comparative approach to the region to identify similarities and differences in the region, and implications for theory and practice

Much of the existing literature within the 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.

Readership: Academics, researchers, and graduate students in International Business, Asia Studies, Business Systems, and Development.

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 R&D 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

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).

 

Contributors: 
Regina Abrami, Senior Lecturer, the Political Science Department, Senior Fellow in the Management Department, the Wharton School of Business, and Director of the Global Program of the Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA 
Christina L. Ahmadjian, Professor of Management, the Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
Edo Andriesse, Assistant Professor, the Department of Geography, Seoul National University, Korea
Michael Harris Bond, Visiting Chair Professor of Psychology, the Department of Management and Marketing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Michael Carney, Professor, the Department of Management, the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Richard W. Carney, Fellow, The Australian National University, Australia
Arnoud De Meyer, President, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Gary G. Hamilton, Professor, the Department of Sociology and The Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, USA
Axèle Giroud, Reader in International Business, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Stephen J. Frenkel, Professor of Organisation & Employment Relations, the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Australia
Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Distinguished Research Fellow and Director, the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Mari Kondo, Professor, the Graduate School of Business, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
Zong-Rong Lee, Associate Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Institute of Sociology, Taipei, Taiwan
William Leung, the Founding Partner of William KW Leung & Co., Solicitors, Hong Kong
Arie Y. Lewin, Professor of Strategy and International Business, the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, USA
Peter Ping Li, Professor of Chinese Business Studies, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Shige Makino, Professor and Chairman, the Department of Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Gordon Redding, Professor of Asian Business and Comparative Management, INSEAD, Singapore, and the Secretary General of the Head Foundation, Singapore
Andrew James Rosser, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, the University of Adelaide, Australia
Chris Rowley, Professor, Cass Business School, City University, London, UK, and Director, Research and Publications, HEAD Foundation, Singapore
Lawrence Saez, Professor in the Political Economy of Asia, the Department of Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK
Solee I. Shin, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, the University of Washington, USA
Akira Suehiro, Professor, the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan
Quang Truong, Emeritus Professor, the Maastricht School of Management, The Netherlands
Natenapha Wailerdsak Yabushita, Lecturer, Thammasat Business School, Bangkok, Thailand
Richard Whitley, Emeritus Professor of Organizational Sociology, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK
Michael A. Witt, Professor of Asian Business and Comparative Management, INSEAD, Singapore, and Associate in Research, the Reischauer Institute, Harvard University, USA
Gilbert YY Wong, Associate Professor, the School of Business, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Daphne W. Yiu, Associate Professor, the Department of Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Leslie Young, Wei Lun Professor of Finance, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Kyoung-Hee Yu, Lecturer, the Australian School of Business, the University of New South Wales, Australia
Xing Zhong, Research Associate, the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, USA

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