Edited by Asli M. Colpan, Takashi Hikino and James R. Lincoln
Business Groups - large, diversified, often family-controlled organizations, such as the Japanese keiretsu and the Korean chaebol - 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 focuses on 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 regional experts, The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups
provides a comprehensive, empirically and theoretically rich guide for scholars and policy-makers.
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: Business Groups in historical perspectives
Part II: National
Experiences of Business Groups
4. 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
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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