Beyond the firm : business groups in international and historical perspective / edited by Takao Shiba and Masahiro Shimotani.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Shiba, Takao, 1950-

Shimotani, Masahiro, 1944-2022.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Business History (22nd : 1995)

Series:

Fuji conference series ; 2.

Fuji conference series ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trusts, Industrial--Congresses.

Trusts, Industrial.

Trusts, Industrial--History--20th century--Congresses.

Industrial concentration--Congresses.

Industrial concentration.

Industrial concentration--History--20th century--Congresses.

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Summary:

Special attention has been devoted in recent years to the distinctive features of Japanese economic organization, and in particular the ways in which firms in Japan have created alternatives to arm's length markets or vertically integrated hierarchies. This book brings together contributions from international scholars presenting analysis and evidence of these phenomenon. How have these business alliances evolved? Are they a particularly Japanese or Asian phenomenon? Are there historical comparisons in Europe and America? What distinguishes 'corporate complexes', 'corporate groups' and 'assembler supplier relationships'? In so doing the book both provides valuable historical detail, raises questions for conventional theories of the firm, offers insight into the resilient international competitiveness of Japanese companies and into the varying institutional characteristics of different business systems and cultures.

Contents:

Introduction / Masahiro Shimotani and Takao Shiba

1. The History and Structure of Business Groups in Japan / Masahiro Shimotani

2. Diversification Process and the Ownership Structure of Samsung Chaebol / Chul-Kyu Kang

3. From Zaibatsu to Corporate Complexes / Kunio Suzuki

4. Structure and Strategy of Belgian Business Groups (1920-1990) / Ginette Kurgan-Van Hentenryk

5. Growth via Politics: Business Groups Italian-Style / Franco Amatori

6. Business Groups in the German Electrical Industry / Wilfried Feldenkirchen

7. A Path to the Corporate Group in Japan: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and its Group Formation / Takao Shiba

8. 'Japanese-Style' Supplier Relationships in the American Auto Industry, 1895-1920 / Susan Helper and David Hochfelder

9. The Subcontracting System and Business Groups: The Case of the Japanese Automotive Industry / Hirofumi Ueda

10. The Organizational Logic of Business Groups: Evidence from the Zaibatsu / Michael L. Gerlach.

Credits:

Papers originally presented at the 22nd Internatiional Conference on Business History.

Notes:

"The eleven chapters of the present volume were originally papers presented at the 22nd International Conference on Business History ... and was held on 5-8 January 1995"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198290608

9780198290605

OCLC:

36947956