Changing Asian Business Systems
Globalization, Socio-Political Change, and Economic Organization
Edited by Richard Whitley and Xiaoke Zhang
Author Information
Richard Whitley, Emeritus Professor of Organisational Sociology, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester,Xiaoke Zhang, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester
Richard Whitley is Emeritus Professor of Organizational Sociology at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Recent authored and edited books include: Capitalisms and Capitalism in the Twenty First Century (2012); Reconfiguring Knowledge Production (2010); Business Systems and Organizational Capabilities (2007); Changing Capitalisms? (2005); The Multinational Firm (2001); Divergent Capitalisms (1999) (all published by Oxford University Press), and The Changing Governance of the Sciences (2007) (Springer); Competing Capitalisms (2002) (Edward Elgar). In 1998-99 he served as the Chair of the European Group for Organizational Studies and in 1999-2000 was the President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-economics. In 2007 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.
Xiaoke Zhang is a Professor at Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester. His major research interests are in political economy and comparative management studies, with a regional focus on East Asia. Before he joined Manchester Business School, he worked and taught at the Universities of Amsterdam and Nottingham. His publications include East Asian Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2012), The Political Economy of Capital Market Reforms in Southeast Asia (Palgrave Macmillan 2011), International Financial Governance under Stress (Cambridge University Press 2003), and The Changing Politics of Finance in Korea and Thailand (Routledge 2002).
Contributors:
Christina Ahmadjian, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
Tim Andrews, Thammasat University, Bangkok
Lai Si Auch-Tsui, Nanyang University, Singapore
R. Carney, Australian National University
S. Casper, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont
Gary Hamilton, University of Washington
Khin Thi Htun, Myanmar Women Entrepreneurs Association, Yangon, Myanmar
Arjan Keizer, University of Manchester
Izumi Kubo, Meiji University, Tokyo
Jia-Jia Liu, University of Manchester
Dennis McNamara, George Washington University
Glenn Morgan, Cardiff University
Khongphu Nimanandh, Chiang Mai University
Solee Shin, Lund University
Lei Song, Peking University
Cornelia Storz, University of Frankfurt
Tim Sturgeon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrew Tylecote, University of Sheffield
Richard Whitley, University of Manchester
Hugh Whittaker, University of Oxford
Leslie Young, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Beijing
Jun Jie Yang, Nankai University, Tianjin
Toru Yoshikawa, Singapore Management University
Xiaoke Zhang, University of Manchester