Divergent Capitalisms: The Social Structuring and Change of Business Systems

This Book Presents The Comparative Business Systems Framework For Describing And Explaining The Major Differences In Economic Organization Between Market Economies In The Late-twentieth Century. This Framework Identifies The Critical Variations In Coordination And Control Systems Across Forms Of Industrial Capitalism, And Shows How These Are Connected To Major Differences In Their Institutional Contexts. Six Major Types Of Business System Are Identified And Linked To Different Institutional Arrangements. Significant Differences In Post-war East Asian Business Systems And The Ways In Which These Are Changing In The 1990s Are Analysed Within This Framework, Which Is Also Extended To Compare The Path-dependent Nature Of The New Capitalisms Emerging In Eastern Europe. Varieties Of Capitalism -- The Nature Of Business Systems And Their Institutional Structuring -- The Social Structuring Of Firms' Governance Systems And Organizational Capabilities -- The Social Structuring Of Work Systems -- Globalization And Business Systems -- Divergent Capitalisms In East Asia: The Post-war Business Systems Of South Korea And Taiwan -- Continuity And Change In East Asian Capitalisms -- Path Dependence And Emergent Capitalisms In Eastern Europe: Hungary And Slovenia Compared -- Enterprise Change And Continuity In A Transforming Society: The Case Of Hungary. Richard Whitley. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [275]-294) And Index.