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

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. Contributors to this volume - Christina Ahmadjian, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo Tim Andrews, Thammasat University, Bangkok Lai Si Auch-Tsui, Nanyang University, Singapore R. Carney, Australian National University S. Casper, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont Gary Hamilton, University of Washington Khin Thi Htun, Myanmar Women Entrepreneurs Association, Yangon, Myanmar Arjan Keizer, University of Manchester Izumi Kubo, Meiji University, Tokyo Jia-Jia Liu, University of Manchester Dennis McNamara, George Washington University Glenn Morgan, Cardiff University Khongphu Nimanandh, Chiang Mai University Solee Shin, Lund University Lei Song, Peking University Cornelia Storz, University of Frankfurt Tim Sturgeon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Andrew Tylecote, University of Sheffield Richard Whitley, University of Manchester Hugh Whittaker, University of Oxford Leslie Young, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Beijing Jun Jie Yang, Nankai University, Tianjin Toru Yoshikawa, Singapore Management University Xiaoke Zhang, University of Manchester