Eastern Asian Enterprise Structures and the Comparative Analysis of Forms of Business Organization
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Organization Studies
- Vol. 11 (1) , 047-74
- https://doi.org/10.1177/017084069001100105
Abstract
The economic success of different forms of business organization in East Asian countries emphasizes the variety of viable enterprise structures and suggests the need for a comparative analysis of how they develop and operate in different societal contexts. Major differences between East Asian business 'recipes' include the range of activities that are authoritatively coordinated, their patterns of development, the ways in which they are organized and controlled and the organization of inter enterprise relations. These differences suggest eight major dimensions on which dominant enterprise structures in different societies can be compared and how their development can be linked to major social institu tions.Keywords
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