New book announcement: We are pleased to announce the publication of The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups by Oxford University Press.
The Ox ford H a ndbook of Business Groups - Comprehensive, empirically and theoretically rich guide to Business Groups around the world
- 16 individual country chapters deal with Business Groups from Asia to Africa, the Middle East to Latin America
- Overarching chapters consider the historical and theoretical context of Business Groups
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 business organization, and occasionally as symptomatic of '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.
Asli M. Colpan, Takashi Hikino & James R. Lincoln (Eds.). 2010. The <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oxford</st1:place></st1:city> Handbook of Business Groups. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Oxford</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> Press.
For the table of contents and more information, please refer to: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199552863.do
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*** *** *** *** *** *** *** Asli M. Colpan Associate Professor Mizuho Securities Chair Graduate School of Management Kyoto University Tel.Fax 81-75-753 3517 Email colpan@gsm.kyoto-u.ac.jp *** *** *** *** *** *** ***