This book brings together scholars from different disciplines to examine the evolving patterns of economic organisation across China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Singapore, against the backdrop of market liberalisation, political changes and periodic economic crises since the 1990s.

PART ONE: CHANGES, VARIATIONS AND CONTINUITIES IN ASIAN BUSINESS SYSTEMS ; PART TWO: SOCIO-POLITICAL STRUCTURING OF ASIAN BUSINESS SYSTEMS ; PART THREE: BUSINESS SYSTEMS, INSTITUTIONS AND INNOVATION STRATEGIES

Richard Whitley is Emeritus Professor of Organizational Sociology at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Recent authored and edited books include: Capitalisms and Capitalism in the Twenty First Century (2012); Reconfiguring Knowledge Production (2010); Business Systems and Organizational Capabilities (2007); Changing Capitalisms? (2005); The Multinational Firm (2001); Divergent Capitalisms (1999) (all published by Oxford University Press), and The Changing Governance of the Sciences (2007) (Springer); Competing Capitalisms (2002) (Edward Elgar). In 1998-99 he served as the Chair of the European Group for Organizational Studies and in 1999-2000 was the President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-economics. In 2007 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. Xiaoke Zhang is a Professor at Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester. His major research interests are in political economy and comparative management studies, with a regional focus on East Asia. Before he joined Manchester Business School, he worked and taught at the Universities of Amsterdam and Nottingham. His publications include East Asian Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2012), The Political Economy of Capital Market Reforms in Southeast Asia (Palgrave Macmillan 2011), International Financial Governance under Stress (Cambridge University Press 2003), and The Changing Politics of Finance in Korea and Thailand (Routledge 2002).