Overview

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.

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Author:   Asli M. Colpan (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University) ,  Takashi Hikino (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University) ,  James R. Lincoln (Professor, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 4.90cm , Length: 24.70cm
Weight:   1.444kg
ISBN:  

9780199660520

ISBN 10:   0199660522
Pages:   828
Publication Date:   26 July 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Asli M. Colpan, Takashi Hikino and James R. Lincoln: Introduction Part I: Overview 2: Asli M. Colpan and Takashi Hikino: Foundations of business groups: Toward an integrated framework 3: Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan: Business Groups in historical perspectives 4: Hideaki Miyajima and Shinya Kawamoto: Business groups in prewar Japan: Historical formation and legacy Part II: National Experiences of Business Groups Group 1: Asia 5: James R. Lincoln and Masahiro Shimotani: Business networks in post-war Japan: Whither the keiretsu? 6: Hicheon Kim: Business groups in South Korea 7: Chi-Nien Chung and Ishtiaq P. Mahmood: Business groups in Taiwan 8: Keun Lee and Young Sam Kang: Business groups in China 9: Akira Suehiro and Natenapha Wailerdsak: Business groups in Thailand 10: Lai Si Tsui-Auch and Toru Yoshikawa: Business groups in Singapore 11: Jayati Sarkar: Business groups in India Group 2: Latin America 12: Eduardo Fracchia, Luiz Mesquita and Juan Quiroga: Business groups in Argentina 13: Dante M. Aldrighi and Fernando Postali: Business groups in Brazil 14: Fernando Lefort: Business groups in Chile 15: Taeko Hoshino: Business groups in Mexico 15: Fernando Lefort: Business Groups in Chile Group 3: Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Africa 16: Konstantin Kosenko and Yishay P. Yafeh: Business groups in Israel 17: Asli M. Colpan: Business groups in Turkey 18: Sergei Guriev: Business groups in Russia 19: Andrea Goldstein: Business groups in South Africa Part III: Economic, Socio-Political, and Managerial Underpinnings of Business Groups 20: Tarun Khanna and Yisyah Yafeh: Business groups in emerging markets: Paragons or parasites? 21: Randall Morck: The Riddle of the great pyramids 22: Richard Langlois: Economic institutions and the boundaries of business groups 23: Ben Ross Schneider: Business groups and the state: The politics of expansion, restructuring and collapse 24: Brian Boyd and Robert E. Hoskisson: Corporate governance of business groups 25: Behlul Usdiken: The kin and the professional top leadership in business groups 26: Andrew Delios and Xufei Ma: Diversification strategy and business groups 27: Mauro Guillen: Capability building in business groups 28: Mike Hobday and Asli M. Colpan: Technological innovation and business groups

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