Changing Asian Business Systems Globalization, Socio-Political Change, and Economic Organization

Richard Whitley, Emeritus Professor of Organisational Sociology, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester,Xiaoke Zhang, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester

Richard Whitley is Emeritus Professor of Organizational Sociology at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Recent authored and edited books include: Capitalisms and Capitalism in the Twenty First Century (2012); Reconfiguring Knowledge Production (2010); Business Systems and Organizational Capabilities (2007); Changing Capitalisms? (2005); The Multinational Firm (2001); Divergent Capitalisms (1999) (all published by Oxford University Press), and The Changing Governance of the Sciences (2007) (Springer); Competing Capitalisms (2002) (Edward Elgar). In 1998-99 he served as the Chair of the European Group for Organizational Studies and in 1999-2000 was the President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-economics. In 2007 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.


Xiaoke Zhang is a Professor at Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester. His major research interests are in political economy and comparative management studies, with a regional focus on East Asia. Before he joined Manchester Business School, he worked and taught at the Universities of Amsterdam and Nottingham. His publications include East Asian Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2012), The Political Economy of Capital Market Reforms in Southeast Asia (Palgrave Macmillan 2011), International Financial Governance under Stress (Cambridge University Press 2003), and The Changing Politics of Finance in Korea and Thailand (Routledge 2002).

Introduction: The Comparative Analysis of Asian Business Systems, Richard Whitley and Xiaoke Zhang
Part One: Changes, Variations and Continuities in Asian Business Systems
1. Changing Business Systems in East Asia: Continued diversity between, and varied change within, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, Richard Whitley
2. Change with Continuity: Asian Capitalism in Transition, Gary G. Hamilton and Solee Shin
3. Systems of Corporate Governance in East Asia: Continued Divergence Despite Global Pressure, Christina L. Ahmadjian
4. Changes in Japanese and South-Korean employment practices: Lessons on the endogenous character of institutional change and the character of business systems, Arjan Keizer
5. Business system evolution and the indigenization of MNE practice transfers in Thailand and Myanmar: An 'emic' perspective, Tim G. Andrews, Khin Thi Htun and Khongphu Nimanandh
Part Two: Socio-Political Structuring of Asian Business Systems
6. State Structures and Business System Changes in East Asia, Richard W. Carney
7. Change and Continuity in Corporate Governance Structures: A Study of Korea, Malaysia and Singapore, Lai Si Tsui-auch, jun Jie Yang, and Toru Yoshikwa
8. Financial Reform and Change in Asian Business Systems, Leslie Young
9. Socio-Political Structures and Market Organization in Greater China, Xiaoke Zhang
10. Institutions, Dominant Coalitions and Firms: Comparing how Japan and Korea responded to Deregulation, Globalization and Competition in the Telecommunications Industry, Glenn Morgan and Izumi Kubo
Part Three: Business Systems, Institutions and Innovation Strategies
11. Compressed Development and Timing in East Asian Business Systems, D. Hugh Whittaker, Timothy J. Sturgeon, and Lei Song
12. Industry Emergence and Institutional Change: Explaining competitiveness in On-line computer games in Korea and Japan, Steve Casper and Cornelia Storz
13. Institutions, Sectors and Innovation: The Impact of Changing Political-Economic Contexts on Dominant Business Systems and Innovation Patterns in China, Jiajia Liu and Andrew Tylecote
14. Innovation Systems, Strategies and Corporate Performance in China and South Korea, Dennis McNamara
Conclusion: Asian Business Systems: Changes, Causes and Consequences, Richard Whitley and Xiaoke Zhang