Asli M. Colpan is Associate Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Graduate School of Management and Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan; and Visiting Associate Professor at Koç University, Turkey. Previously she was the Alfred Chandler visiting scholar at Harvard Business School and visiting scholar at the Department of Political Science at MIT. Her research interests include corporate strategy, corporate governance, and especially the evolution of large enterprises in developed and emerging economies. Her work has been published in such journals as Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Business History and Corporate Governance: An International Review. She co-edited (with Takashi Hikino and James Lincoln) The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups (Oxford University Press, 2010). Takashi Hikino is Mizuho Securities Endowed Chair Professor at the Graduate School of Management at Kyoto University, Japan; and Visiting Professor at Koç University, Turkey. His major publications include Big Business and Wealth of Nations (co-edited with Alfred D. Chandler and Franco Amatori, Cambridge University Press, 1997), Competing Policies for Competitiveness: Microeconomic Policies During the Golden Age of Capitalism (co-edited with Hideaki Miyajima and Takeo Kikkawa, Oxford University Press, 1998), The Global Chemical Industry in the Age of the Petrochemical Revolution (co-edited with Louis Galambos and Vera Zamagni, Cambridge University Press, 2006), and The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups (co-edited with Asli Colpan and James Lincoln, Oxford University Press, 2010).

• Part I. Concepts and Arguments 1: Asli M. Colpan and Takashi Hikino: Introduction: Business Groups Re-examined 2: Asli M. Colpan And Takashi Hikino: The Evolutionary Dynamics of Diversified Business Groups in the West: History and Theory 3: Ben Ross Schneider, Asli M. Colpan and Weihuang Wong: Politics, Institutions, and Diversified Business Groups: Comparisons Across Developed Countries 4: James R. Lincoln and Matthew Sargent: Business Groups as Networks Part II: National Experiences of Business Groups Group 1. Historical Frontrunners in Europe 5: Geoffrey Jones: Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence 6: Marco Becht: Belgium: The Disappearance of Large Diversified Business Groups 7: Abe De Jong and Ferry De Goey: The Netherlands: The Overlooked Variety of Big Business 8: Harm Schröter: Germany: An Engine of Modern Economic Growth 9: Youssef Cassis: France: A Complement to Multidivisional Enterprises Group 2. Catch-up Nations in Europe 11: Mats Larsson and Tom Petersson: Sweden: Tradition And Renewal 12: Andrea Colli and Michelangelo Vasta: Italy: Enduring Logic and Pervasive Diffusion 12: Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra: Spain: Regulation and Ideology as Drivers for Transformation 13: Alvaro Ferreira Da Silva and Pedro Neves: Portugal: Changing Environment and Flexible Adaptation Group 3. Western Offshoots 14: Takashi Hikino and Marcelo Bucheli: The United States in Historical Perspectives: The Strange Career of Business Groups in Industrial Development 15: David Collis, Bharat Anand and J. Yo-Jud Cheng.: The United States in Contemporary Perspectives: Evolving Forms, Strategy and Performance 16: Simon Ville: Australia: From Family Networks to Boom and Bust Groups 17: Randall Morck and Gloria Tian: Canada: The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall Again

This is exciting original research from 12 modern Western nations, documenting the co-evolution of business groups with their ambient institutional contexts. The work makes clear that we should not think of business groups as anachronisms of the process of economic development, rather they both react to and shape the surrounding context, and therefore are likely very persistent organizational forms. This volume is of great value to scholars and policymakers alike.

Asli M. Colpan is Associate Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Graduate School of Management and Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan; and Visiting Associate Professor at Koç University, Turkey. Previously she was the Alfred Chandler visiting scholar at Harvard Business School and visiting scholar at the Department of Political Science at MIT. Her research interests include corporate strategy, corporate governance, and especially the evolution of large enterprises in developed and emerging economies. Her work has been published in such journals as Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Business History and Corporate Governance: An International Review. She co-edited (with Takashi Hikino and James Lincoln) The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups (Oxford University Press, 2010). Takashi Hikino is Mizuho Securities Endowed Chair Professor at the Graduate School of Management at Kyoto University, Japan; and Visiting Professor at Koç University, Turkey. His major publications include Big Business and Wealth of Nations (co-edited with Alfred D. Chandler and Franco Amatori, Cambridge University Press, 1997), Competing Policies for Competitiveness: Microeconomic Policies During the Golden Age of Capitalism (co-edited with Hideaki Miyajima and Takeo Kikkawa, Oxford University Press, 1998), The Global Chemical Industry in the Age of the Petrochemical Revolution (co-edited with Louis Galambos and Vera Zamagni, Cambridge University Press, 2006), and The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups (co-edited with Asli Colpan and James Lincoln, Oxford University Press, 2010).

• Part I. Concepts and Arguments 1: Asli M. Colpan and Takashi Hikino: Introduction: Business Groups Re-examined 2: Asli M. Colpan And Takashi Hikino: The Evolutionary Dynamics of Diversified Business Groups in the West: History and Theory 3: Ben Ross Schneider, Asli M. Colpan and Weihuang Wong: Politics, Institutions, and Diversified Business Groups: Comparisons Across Developed Countries 4: James R. Lincoln and Matthew Sargent: Business Groups as Networks Part II: National Experiences of Business Groups Group 1. Historical Frontrunners in Europe 5: Geoffrey Jones: Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence 6: Marco Becht: Belgium: The Disappearance of Large Diversified Business Groups 7: Abe De Jong and Ferry De Goey: The Netherlands: The Overlooked Variety of Big Business 8: Harm Schröter: Germany: An Engine of Modern Economic Growth 9: Youssef Cassis: France: A Complement to Multidivisional Enterprises Group 2. Catch-up Nations in Europe 11: Mats Larsson and Tom Petersson: Sweden: Tradition And Renewal 12: Andrea Colli and Michelangelo Vasta: Italy: Enduring Logic and Pervasive Diffusion 12: Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra: Spain: Regulation and Ideology as Drivers for Transformation 13: Alvaro Ferreira Da Silva and Pedro Neves: Portugal: Changing Environment and Flexible Adaptation Group 3. Western Offshoots 14: Takashi Hikino and Marcelo Bucheli: The United States in Historical Perspectives: The Strange Career of Business Groups in Industrial Development 15: David Collis, Bharat Anand and J. Yo-Jud Cheng.: The United States in Contemporary Perspectives: Evolving Forms, Strategy and Performance 16: Simon Ville: Australia: From Family Networks to Boom and Bust Groups 17: Randall Morck and Gloria Tian: Canada: The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall Again

This is exciting original research from 12 modern Western nations, documenting the co-evolution of business groups with their ambient institutional contexts. The work makes clear that we should not think of business groups as anachronisms of the process of economic development, rather they both react to and shape the surrounding context, and therefore are likely very persistent organizational forms. This volume is of great value to scholars and policymakers alike.

Asli M. Colpan is Associate Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Graduate School of Management and Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan; and Visiting Associate Professor at Koç University, Turkey. Previously she was the Alfred Chandler visiting scholar at Harvard Business School and visiting scholar at the Department of Political Science at MIT. Her research interests include corporate strategy, corporate governance, and especially the evolution of large enterprises in developed and emerging economies. Her work has been published in such journals as Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Business History and Corporate Governance: An International Review. She co-edited (with Takashi Hikino and James Lincoln) The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups (Oxford University Press, 2010). Takashi Hikino is Mizuho Securities Endowed Chair Professor at the Graduate School of Management at Kyoto University, Japan; and Visiting Professor at Koç University, Turkey. His major publications include Big Business and Wealth of Nations (co-edited with Alfred D. Chandler and Franco Amatori, Cambridge University Press, 1997), Competing Policies for Competitiveness: Microeconomic Policies During the Golden Age of Capitalism (co-edited with Hideaki Miyajima and Takeo Kikkawa, Oxford University Press, 1998), The Global Chemical Industry in the Age of the Petrochemical Revolution (co-edited with Louis Galambos and Vera Zamagni, Cambridge University Press, 2006), and The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups (co-edited with Asli Colpan and James Lincoln, Oxford University Press, 2010).

• Part I. Concepts and Arguments 1: Asli M. Colpan and Takashi Hikino: Introduction: Business Groups Re-examined 2: Asli M. Colpan And Takashi Hikino: The Evolutionary Dynamics of Diversified Business Groups in the West: History and Theory 3: Ben Ross Schneider, Asli M. Colpan and Weihuang Wong: Politics, Institutions, and Diversified Business Groups: Comparisons Across Developed Countries 4: James R. Lincoln and Matthew Sargent: Business Groups as Networks Part II: National Experiences of Business Groups Group 1. Historical Frontrunners in Europe 5: Geoffrey Jones: Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence 6: Marco Becht: Belgium: The Disappearance of Large Diversified Business Groups 7: Abe De Jong and Ferry De Goey: The Netherlands: The Overlooked Variety of Big Business 8: Harm Schröter: Germany: An Engine of Modern Economic Growth 9: Youssef Cassis: France: A Complement to Multidivisional Enterprises Group 2. Catch-up Nations in Europe 11: Mats Larsson and Tom Petersson: Sweden: Tradition And Renewal 12: Andrea Colli and Michelangelo Vasta: Italy: Enduring Logic and Pervasive Diffusion 12: Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra: Spain: Regulation and Ideology as Drivers for Transformation 13: Alvaro Ferreira Da Silva and Pedro Neves: Portugal: Changing Environment and Flexible Adaptation Group 3. Western Offshoots 14: Takashi Hikino and Marcelo Bucheli: The United States in Historical Perspectives: The Strange Career of Business Groups in Industrial Development 15: David Collis, Bharat Anand and J. Yo-Jud Cheng.: The United States in Contemporary Perspectives: Evolving Forms, Strategy and Performance 16: Simon Ville: Australia: From Family Networks to Boom and Bust Groups 17: Randall Morck and Gloria Tian: Canada: The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall Again

This is exciting original research from 12 modern Western nations, documenting the co-evolution of business groups with their ambient institutional contexts. The work makes clear that we should not think of business groups as anachronisms of the process of economic development, rather they both react to and shape the surrounding context, and therefore are likely very persistent organizational forms. This volume is of great value to scholars and policymakers alike.