The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems

by Michael A. Witt (Editor), Gordon Redding (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191626555
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	01/30/2014
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	752
File size:	12 MB
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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).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction by Michael A. Witt and Gordon Redding

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

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

Chapter 4 The Business System of India by Lawrence Saez

Chapter 5 The Business System of Indonesia by Andrew Rosser

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

Chapter 7 The Business System of Laos by Edo Andriesse

Chapter 8 The Business System of Malaysia by Michael Carney and Edo Andriesse

Chapter 9 The Business System of the Philippines by Mari Kondo

Chapter 10 The Business System of Singapore by Richard W. Carney

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

Chapter 12 Taiwan: SME-Oriented Capitalism in Transition by Zong-Rong Lee and Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao

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

Chapter 14 The Business System of Vietnam by Quang Truong and Chris Rowley

Chapter 15 Business Groups in Asia: An Institutional Perspective by Michael Carney

Chapter 16 Corporate Governance and Business Systems in Asia by Christina L. Ahmadjian

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

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

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

Chapter 20 MNEs in Asian Business Systems by Ax le Giroud

Chapter 21 National R&D Systems and Technology Development in Asia by Arnoud De Meyer

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 28 Change and Continuity in East Asian Business Systems by Richard Whitley

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

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