The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems

The strength of this section is that the various chapters follow a template - inspired by the ABS framework - that seeks to set out the principal institutional characteristics of each country as they are perceived to affect the workings of business groups. [...]each chapter has a section on issues such as the role of the state; structure of the financial system; patterns of ownership; prevalent firm structures; and labour. [...]the various sections would have benefited from using standard statistics such as: tax revenue as a proportion of GDP (the role of the state); the size of the bank sector, bond market and stock market as a proportion of financial assets (the financial system); and the market value of the largest corporations (ownership and corporate governance). The second section consists of eleven thematic chapters that explore how business systems across Asia are characterized or affected by different issues. [...]there are discussions of topics such as: the composition and structure of business groups; corporate governance; financial systems; multinational corporations; research and development policy; and offshoring.