Divergent Capitalisms

Richard Whitley is Professor of Organizational Sociology at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. He has also held visiting academic appointments at the International University of Japan (1993), University of Hong Kong (1988), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris (1987), University of Amsterdam (1982), St Anthony's College, Oxford (1981), and the Inter-University Graduate School of Management, Delft, The Netherlands (1977, 1979).

• PART I: INTRODUCTION ; 1. Varieties of Capitalism ; PART II: THE COMPARATIVE BUSINESS SYSTEMS FRAMEWORK ; 2. The Nature of Business Systems and their Institutional Structuring ; 3. The Social Structuring of Firms' Governance Systems and Organizational Capabilities ; 4. The Social Structuring of Work Systems ; 5. Globalization and Business Systems ; PART III: THE DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS IN EAST ASIA AND EASTERN EUROPE ; 6. Divergent Capitalisms in East Asia: The Development of the Post-War Business Systems of South Korea and Taiwan ; 7. Continuity and Change in East Asian Capitalisms ; 8. Path Dependence and Emergent Capitalisms in Eastern Europe: Hungary and Slovenia Compared ; 9. Enterprise Change and Continuity in a Transforming Society: The Case of Hungary

for those interested in the workings of the interconnected world and notions of globalisation, this book provides a valuable perspective on the parallel emergence of diverse forms of economic organisation.