We present an institutional comparison of 13 major Asian business systems—China, Hong
Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan …

Much of the existing literature within the" varieties of capitalism"(VOC) and" comparative
business systems" fields of research is heavily focused on Europe, Japan, and the Anglo …

Among a vast literature on the Asian economies, the book proposes a distinctive approach,
inspired by régulation theory, to understand the current transformations of the Asian …

In the 1980s the performance of Japan's economy was an international success story, and
led many economists to suggest that the 1990s would be a Japanese decade. Today …

Although heterogeneity in the performance of firms is a well-established stylized fact, we still
lack full understanding of its origins and the reasons why it persists. Instead of assuming that …

While Western industrialized societies have almost gained a canonical status within political
economy approaches (Blyth, 2003), Asian economies and their internal diversities have …

In the context of a wave of retail foreign direct investment and increasing recognition across
many disciplines of the profound developmental implications of transnational retail within the …

This paper examines the varieties of capitalism thesis for its implications for strategy and
strategic management. It considers the grounds for an integrated approach to strategic …

This chapter provides an in-depth and renewed political economy analysis of state-business
nexuses in Malaysia through a less familiar institutionalist theoretical framework. The …

This paper contributes to the literature that empirically analyzes the evolution of productivity
dispersion at the firm level and its determinants. We investigate the case of Japanese firms …