Changing Asian Business Systems

Globalization, Socio-Political Change, and Economic Organization

Richard Whitley editor Xiaoke Zhang editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:25th Feb '16

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Changing Asian Business Systems cover

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.

ISBN: 9780198729167

Dimensions: 240mm x 163mm x 31mm

Weight: 810g

464 pages