The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups (Oxford Handbooks)

Business groups - large, diversified, often family-controlled organizations with pyramidal ownership structure, such as the Japanese zaibatsu, the Korean chaebol and the grupos economicos in Latin America - have played a significant role in national economic growth, especially in emerging economies. Earlier variants can also be found in the trading companies, often set up in Britain, which operated in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Business groups are often criticized as premodern forms of economic organization, and occasionally as symptomatic of corrupt 'crony capitalism', but many have shown remarkable resilience, navigating and adjusting to economic and political turbulence, international competition, and technological change. This Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of business groups around the world. It examines the adaptive and competitive capabilities of business groups, and their evolutionary dynamics. 16 individual country chapters deal with business groups from Asia to Africa, the Middle East to Latin America, while overarching chapters consider the historical and theoretical context of business groups. With contributions from leading experts, The Oxford Handbook of business groups provides a comprehensive, empirically and theoretically rich guide for scholars and policy-makers.

Business & Money

Lincoln, James R.

Colpan, Asli M.

Hikino, Takashi

International

Oxford University Press

Book by Lincoln, James R., Kalleberg, Arne L.

Culture, Control and Commitment: A Study of Work Organization and Work Attitudes in the United States and Japan

Kalleberg, Arne L.

Economics

Cambridge University Press

This book uses quantitative and historical methods to trace the evolution of the Japanese economy's business network from the prewar period to the end of the century. It addresses whether the controversial "keiretsu" enterprise groupings have outlived their usefulness and are withering away in the face of deregulation, globalization, and market liberalization. While concluding that these relationships are still central to Japanese business, the book also notes that they are much more subordinated to the strategies of individual enterprises than was true of the prewar network economy.

Japan's Network Economy: Structure, Persistence, and Change (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 24)

Gerlach, Michæl L.

This book uses quantitative and historical methods to trace the evolution of the Japanese economy's business network from the prewar period to the end of the century. It addresses whether the controversial "keiretsu" enterprise groupings have outlived their usefulness and are withering away in the face of deregulation, globalization, and market liberalization. While concluding that these relationships are still central to Japanese business, the book also notes that they are much more subordinated to the strategies of individual enterprises than was true of the prewar network economy.

This book documents the conventional wisdom that Japanese workers displayed significantly more commitment to their organizations than did American workers. But as the authors point out in their new prologue, the world is very different from when this survey of U.S. and Japanese manufacturing firms first appeared; the latter are now moving closer to the American "market individualist" model. Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1990.

Culture, Control and Commitment: A Study of Work Organization and Work Attitudes in the United States and Japan (Foundations of Sociology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Percheron Press/Eliot Werner Publications

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The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups (Oxford Handbooks)

Culture, Control and Commitment: A Study of Work Organization and Work Attitudes in the United States and Japan

Culture, Control and Commitment: A Study of Work Organization and Work Attitudes in the United States and Japan

Japan's Network Economy: Structure, Persistence, and Change (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 24)

Japan's Network Economy: Structure, Persistence, and Change (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 24)

Culture, Control and Commitment: A Study of Work Organization and Work Attitudes in the United States and Japan (Foundations of Sociology)