Capitalism in Contrasting Cultures

Frontmatter -- Introduction: Capitalism in Contrasting Cultures / Clegg, Siewart R. / Gordon Redding, S. -- Part I Capitalism's Cultures - Lessons from Asia? -- 'Post-Confucianism', Social Democracy and Economic Culture / Clegg, Stewart R. / Higgins, Winton / Spybey, Tony -- Beyond Bureaucracy: Towards a Comparative Analysis of Forms of Economic Resource Co-ordination and Control / Gordon Redding, S. / Whitley, Richard D. -- The Network Structures of East Asian Economies / Hamilton, Gary G. / Zeile, William / Kim, Wan-Jin -- The Embodiment of Industrial Culture in Bureaucracy and Management / Wilks, Stephen -- Centrifugal Versus Centripetal Growth Processes: Contrasting Ideal Types for Conceptualizing the Developmental Patterns of Chinese and Japanese Firms / Tam, Simon -- Part II Regulation and De-Regulation -- Corporate Governance: A Ripple on the Cultural Reflection / Tricker, Robert I. -- Accounting: The Private Language of Business or an Instrument of Social Communication? / Standish, Peter E. M. -- Deregulation and Degradation in Managerial Work / Lewis, Malcolm / McGregor, Alan -- Part III Blockages and Breakthroughs in Organizational Adaptation -- Efficiency, Ideology and Tradition in the Choice of Transactions Governance Structures: The Case of China as a Modernizing Society / Boisot, Max / Child, John -- Organizational Change and Stability in Japanese Factories: 1976-1983 / Marsh, Robert M. / Mannari, Hiroshi -- Japanese Influences on British Industrial Culture / Wilkinson, Barry / Oliver, Nick -- The Dwarves of Capitalism: The Structure of Production and the Economic Culture of the Small Manufacturing Firm / Marceau, Jane -- Part IV Culture's Consequences: Values in Action -- The Cash Value of Confucian Values / Bond, Michael Harris / Hofstede, Geert -- Ethnicity and Religion in the Development of Family Capitalism: Seui-Seung-Yahn Immigrants from Hong Kong to Scotland / Acton, Thomas A. -- Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in the USA and Asia / Woolsey Biggart, Nicole -- Notes on Contributors -- Index