The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups

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
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9780199552863


Pages:   828
Publication Date:   05 August 2010
Format:   Hardback
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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: 17.70cm , Height: 5.20cm , Length: 25.00cm
Weight:   1.574kg
ISBN:  

9780199552863


ISBN 10:   019955286
Pages:   828
Publication Date:   05 August 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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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 Part II: National Experiences of Business Groups4: Hideaki Miyajima and Shinya Kawamoto: Business groups in prewar Japan: Historical formation and legacy 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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Asli M. Colpan is Associate Professor and Mizuho Securities Chair in Strategy and International Business at the Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University. She is also Adjunct Associate Professor of the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies at Colombia University. Her research interests include corporate strategy, corporate governance, and especially the evolution of large enterprises in industrial and emerging economies. Her work has been published in Industrial and Corporate Change, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and Asian Business and Management. Takashi Hikino is Associate Professor of Business and Industrial Organization at the Graduate School of Economics and the Graduate School of Management at Kyoto University. 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). James R. Lincoln is Mitsubishi Professor of International Business and Finance in the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. His primary research interests include organizational design and innovation, Japanese management, and inter-organizational networks. He is the author of Culture, Control and Commitment: A Study of Work Organization and Work Attitudes in the U.S. and Japan, (with Arne L. Kalleberg), Cambridge University Press, 1990, and Japan's Network Economy: Structure, Persistence and Change, Cambridge University Press, 2004 (with Michael L. Gerlach).

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