Networks, Markets, and the Pacific Rim: Studies in Strategy (Japan Business and Economics Series)

W. Mark Fruin

ISBN 10: 0195117204 / ISBN 13: 9780195117202

Editore: Oxford University Press, 1998

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326pp. Former-university library copy with associated library stamps and labels. Hard cover, no jacket. No highlighting or annotations to text.

Codice articolo 941649

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• Titolo: Networks, Markets, and the Pacific Rim: Studies in Strategy (Japan Business and Economics Series)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195117204
• ISBN 13: 9780195117202
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Jacket

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Riassunto

This volume explores the wide diversity in the kinds of networks that have been established between firms in Japan and the Pacific Rim. Editor W. Mark Fruin shows how networks in Japan and Korea are more prescribed and standardized than those found in the United States. For example, Toyota's satellite organizational system is more flexible, open-ended, and market-conforming than General Motors divisional organization. But less market-conforming networks can also arise. In China, for example, networks have arisen because of the unpredictable nature of markets.

The contributors to this volume utilize new ideas and data to formulate an understanding of the importance of networks to the success of Asian firms. The book's postmodern approach--seeking not a single model but rather a variety of models of equally probable validity--makes it a unique resource for scholars and professionals in the field.

Contenuti

• 1: W. Mark Fruin: Analyzing Networks and Markets: An Introduction
• 2: Howard E. Aldrich and Tomoaki Sakano: Unbroken Ties: Comparing Personal Business Networks Cross-Nationally
• 3: Toshihiro Kanai: Entrepreneurial Networking Organizations: Cases, Taxonomy, and Paradoxes
• 4: Jeffrey Broadbent and Yoshito Ishio: The "Embedded Broker" State: Social Networks and Political Organization in Japan
• 5: Toshio Yamagishi and Midori Yamagishi: Trust and Commitment as Alternative Responses to Social Uncertainty
• 6: You-tien Hsing: The Work of Networks in Taiwan's Export Fashion Shoe Industry
• 7: Hiroyuki Odagiri: Education as a Source of Network, Signal, or Nepotism: Managers and Engineers During Japan's Industrial Development
• 8: Theodore C. Bestor: Making Things Clique: Cartels, Coalitions and Institutional Structure in the Tsukiji Wholesale Seafood Market
• 9: Gary G. Hamilton: Patterns of Asian Network Capitalism: The Cases of Taiwan and South Korea
• 10: Paul Sheard: Japanese Corporate Boards and the Role of Bank Directors
• 11: Jeffrey H. Dyer: To Sue or Keiretsu: A Comparison of Partnering in the United States and Japan
• 12: W. Mark Fruin: The Visible Hand and Invisible Assets: Managed Competition and Network Organization at a Toshiba Electronics Factory
• 13: AnnaLee Saxenian: The Limits of Autarky: Regional Networks and Industrial Adaptation in Silicon Valley and Route 128
• 14: Michael L. Gerlach and James R. Lincoln: Structural Analysis of Japanese Economic Organizations: A Conceptual Framework