W. Mark Fruin (ed.)

Networks, Markets, and the Pacific Rim

Studies in Strategy
Herausgeber: Fruin, W. Mark

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 675g
• ISBN-13: 9780195117202
• ISBN-10: 0195117204
• Artikelnr.: 22448803

Inhaltsangabe

* 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