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This volume aims to explore the long-term evolution of different varieties of large enterprises in today's developed economies. It focuses on the economic institution of business groups and attempts to comprehend the factors behind their rise, growth, struggle, and resilience; their behavioral and organizational characteristics; and their roles in national economic development. The volume seeks to enhance the scholarly and policy-oriented understanding of business groups in developed economies by bringing together state-of-the-art research on the characteristics and contributions of large enterprises in an evolutionary perspective.
While business groups are a dominant and critical organization model in contemporary emerging economies and have lately attracted much attention in academic circles and business presses, their counterparts in developed economies have not been systematically examined. This book aims to fill this gap in the literature and is the first scholarly attempt to explore the evolutional paths and contemporary roles of business groups in developed economies from an internationally comparative perspective. In doing so, it argues that business groups actually rose to function as a critical factor of industrial dynamics in the context of Second Industrial Revolution in the late nineteenth century. They have adapted their characteristic roles and transformed to fit to the changing market and institutional settings. As they flexibly co-evolve with the environment, the volume shows that business groups can remain as a viable organization model in the world's most advanced economies today.
Contents
Part I. Concepts and Arguments
1: Asli M. Colpan and Takashi Hikino: Introduction: Business Groups Re-examined
2: Asli M. Colpan And Takashi Hikino: The Evolutionary Dynamics of Diversified Business Groups in the West: History and Theory
3: Ben Ross Schneider, Asli M. Colpan and Weihuang Wong: Politics, Institutions, and Diversified Business Groups: Comparisons Across Developed Countries
4: James R. Lincoln and Matthew Sargent: Business Groups as Networks
Part II: National Experiences of Business Groups
Group 1. Historical Frontrunners in Europe
5: Geoffrey Jones: Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence
6: Marco Becht: Belgium: The Disappearance of Large Diversified Business Groups
7: Abe De Jong and Ferry De Goey: The Netherlands: The Overlooked Variety of Big Business
8: Harm Schröter: Germany: An Engine of Modern Economic Growth
9: Youssef Cassis: France: A Complement to Multidivisional Enterprises
Group 2. Catch-up Nations in Europe
11: Mats Larsson and Tom Petersson: Sweden: Tradition And Renewal
12: Andrea Colli and Michelangelo Vasta: Italy: Enduring Logic and Pervasive Diffusion
12: Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra: Spain: Regulation and Ideology as Drivers for Transformation
13: Alvaro Ferreira Da Silva and Pedro Neves: Portugal: Changing Environment and Flexible Adaptation
Group 3. Western Offshoots
14: Takashi Hikino and Marcelo Bucheli: The United States in Historical Perspectives: The Strange Career of Business Groups in Industrial Development
15: David Collis, Bharat Anand and J. Yo-Jud Cheng.: The United States in Contemporary Perspectives: Evolving Forms, Strategy and Performance
16: Simon Ville: Australia: From Family Networks to Boom and Bust Groups
17: Randall Morck and Gloria Tian: Canada: The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall Again
