Business Groups in the West The Evolutionary Dynamics of Big Business

Asli M. Colpan is Associate Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Graduate School of Management and Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan. She was the Alfred Chandler Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School in 2016. Her research interests include corporate strategy, corporate governance and business history. Her work has been published in such journals as Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Management Studies, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Strategic Management Journal, Business History and Corporate Governance: An International Review. She is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Business Groups, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. In 2010 she was awarded the Tachibana Prize for the most outstanding female scholar at Kyoto University.

Takashi Hikino is Mizuho Securities Endowment Professor at the Graduate School of Management at Kyoto University. His research interests include business history, industrial organization and corporate governance. His recent publications include Big Business and Wealth of Nations, Cambridge University Press, 1997 (co-edited with Alfred D. Chandler and Franco Amatori), Competing Policies for Competitiveness: Microeconomic Policies During the Golden Age of Capitalism, Oxford University Press, 1998 (co-edited with Hideaki Miyajima and Takeo Kikkawa), and The Global Chemical Industry in the Age of the Petrochemical Revolution Cambridge University Press, 2006 (co-edited with Louis Galambos and Vera Zamagni) and Oxford Handbook of Business Groups, Oxford University Press, 2010 (co-edited with Asli M. Colpan and James R. Lincoln).

Part I. Concepts and Arguments
1. Introduction: Business Groups Re-examined, Asli M. Colpan and Takashi Hikino
2. The Evolutionary Dynamics of Diversified Business Groups in the West: History and Theory, Asli M. Colpan And Takashi Hikino
3. Politics, Institutions, and Diversified Business Groups: Comparisons Across Developed Countries, Ben Ross Schneider, Asli M. Colpan and Weihuang Wong
4. Business Groups as Networks, James R. Lincoln and Matthew Sargent
Part II: National Experiences of Business Groups
Group 1. Historical Frontrunners in Europe
5. Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence, Geoffrey Jones
6. Belgium: The Disappearance of Large Diversified Business Groups, Marco Becht
7. The Netherlands: The Overlooked Variety of Big Business, Abe De Jong and Ferry De Goey
8. Germany: An Engine of Modern Economic Growth, Harm Schroter
9. France: A Complement to Multidivisional Enterprises, Youssef Cassis
Group 2. Catch-up Nations in Europe
11. Sweden: Tradition And Renewal, Mats Larsson and Tom Petersson
12. Italy: Enduring Logic and Pervasive Diffusion, Andrea Colli and Michelangelo Vasta
12. Spain: Regulation and Ideology as Drivers for Transformation, Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra
13. Portugal: Changing Environment and Flexible Adaptation, Alvaro Ferreira Da Silva and Pedro Neves
Group 3. Western Offshoots
14. The United States Before the Mid-20th Century: Strange Career of Business Groups in Economic Development, Takashi Hikino and Marcelo Bucheli
15. The United States Since the 1960s: Evolving Forms, Strategy, and Performance, David J. Collis, Bharat Anand and J. Yo-Jud Cheng
16. Australia: From Family Networks to Boom and Bust Groups, Simon Ville
17. Canada: The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall Again, Randall Morck and Gloria Tian