List of Figures ................................................. x
List of Tables ............................................... xiii
Abbreviations ............................................... xviii
Notes on Contributors ......................................... xxi
1 Introduction ................................................. l
Asli M. Colpan, Takashi Hikino, and James R. Lincoln
PART I THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
2 Foundations of Business Groups: Towards an Integrated
Framework ................................................... 15
Asli M. Colpan and Takashi Hikino
3 Business Groups in Historical Perspectives .................. 67
Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan
PART II NATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF BUSINESS GROUPS
Group 1. Asia
4 Business Groups in Prewar Japan: Historical Formation
and Legacy .................................................. 97
Hideaki Miyajima and Shinya Kawamoto
5 Business Networks in Postwar Japan: Whither the Keiretsu? .. 127
James R. Lincoln and Masahiro Shimotani
6 Business Groups in South Korea ............................. 157
Hicheon Kim
7 Business Groups in Taiwan .................................. 180
Chi-Nien Chung and Ishtiaq P. Mahmood
8 Business Groups in China ................................... 210
Keun Lee and Young-Sam Kang
9 Business Groups in Thailand ................................ 237
Natenapha Wailerdsak and Akira Suehiro
10 Business Groups in Singapore ............................... 267
Lai Si Tsui-Auch and Toru Yoshikawa
11 Business Groups in India ................................... 294
Jayati Sarkar
Group 2. Latin America
12 Business Groups in Argentina ............................... 325
Eduardo Fracchia, Luiz Mesquita, and Juan Quiroga
13 Business Groups in Brazil .................................. 353
Dante M. Aldrighi and Fernando A.S. Postali
14 Business Groups in Chile ................................... 387
Fernando Lefort
15 Business Groups in Mexico .................................. 424
Taeko Hoshino
Group 3. The Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Africa
16 Business Groups in Israel .................................. 459
Konstantin Kosenko and Yishay Yafeh
17 Business Groups in Turkey .................................. 486
Asli M. Colpan
18 Business Groups in Russia .................................. 526
Sergei Guriev
19 Business Groups in South Africa ............................ 547
Andrea Goldstein
PART III. ECONOMIC, SOCIOPOLITICAL, AND, MANAGERIAL
UNDERPINNINGS OF BUSINESS GROUPS
20 Business Groups in Emerging Markets: Paragons or
Parasites? ................................................. 575
Tarun Khanna and Yishay Yafeh
21 The Riddle of the Great Pyramids ........................... 602
Randall Morck
22 Economic Institutions and the Boundaries of Business
Groups ..................................................... 629
Richard N. Langlois
23 Business Groups and the State: The Politics of Expansion,
Restructuring, and Collapse ................................ 650
Ben Ross Schneider
24 Corporate Governance of Business Groups .................... 670
Brian K. Boyd and Robert E. Hoskisson
25 The Kin and the Professional: Top Leadership in Family
Business Groups ............................................ 696
Behlül Üsdiken
26 Diversification Strategy and Business Groups ............... 717
Andrew Delios and Xufei Ma
27 Capability Building in Business Groups ..................... 743
Mauro F. Guillén
28 Technological Innovation and Business Groups ............... 763
Mike Hobday and Asli M. Colpan
Index ......................................................... 783
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