Business Systems in East Asia: Firms, Markets and Societies

by Richard Whitley (Author)

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd; New edition edition (August 28, 1992)
ISBN-13: 978-0803987401

In this major contribution to comparative-international business Richard Whitley compares and contrasts the dominant characteristics of firms and markets in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, relating these to their particular social, political and economic contexts.

At the level of the firm he looks at such areas as management styles and structures, decision-making processes, owner-employee relations, and patterns of company growth and development. He also discusses market development, customer, supplier and inter-firm relations, and the roles of the financial sectors and the state in market and industry development.