| Business Systems in East Asia: Firms, Markets and Societies Revised Edition Contributor(s): Whitley, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803987404 ISBN-13: 9780803987401 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $79.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Infrastructure - Business & Economics | International - General |
| Dewey: 338.709 |
| LCCN: 92050229 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.82 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this major contribution to comparative-international business Richard Whitley compares and contrasts the dominant characteristics of firms and markets in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, relating these to their particular social, political and economic contexts. At the level of the firm he looks at such areas as management styles and structures, decision-making processes, owner-employee relations, and patterns of company growth and development. He also discusses market development, customer, supplier and inter-firm relations, and the roles of the financial sectors and the state in market and industry development. The book also examines the ways in which key social institutions in each country ha |
Contributor Bio(s): Whitley, Richard: - Richard Whitley is Professor of Organizational Sociology at the Manchester Business School, Manchester University. He is the author of Business Systems in East Asia: Firms, Markets and Societies (Sage, 1992). |