The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups

• 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 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?

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).

an important new study Geoffrey Owen, Financial Times

an important new study Geoffrey Owen, Financial Times