PART ONE: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Explaining Asian Economic Organization - Nicole Woolsey Biggart
Toward a Weberian Institutional Perspective
On the Limits of a Firm-Based Theory to Explain Business Networks - Nicole Woolsey Biggart and Gary G Hamilton
The Western Bias of Neoclassical Economics
Varieties of Hierarchies and Markets - Gary G Hamilton and Robert C Feenstra
An Introduction
PART TWO: CAPITALISM IN EAST ASIA
Explaining Asian Business Success - Nicole Woolsey Biggart and Gary G Hamilton
Theory No. 4
Market, Culture, and Authority - Gary G Hamilton and Nicole Woolsey Biggart
A Comparative Analysis of Management and Organization in the Far East
Organizational Isomorphism in East Asia - Marco Orrú, Nicole Woolsey Biggart and Gary G Hamilton
Patterns of Interfirm Control in Japanese Business - Marco Orrú, Gary G Hamilton and Mariko Suzuki
Institutionalized Patrimonialism in Korean Busines - Nicole Woolsey Biggart
Organization and Market Processes in Taiwan¿s Capitalist Economy - Gary G Hamilton
PART THREE: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS NETWORKS
The Institutional Analysis of Capitalist Economies - Marco Orrú
Institutional Cooperation in Japanese and German Capitalism - Marco Orrú
The Institutional Logic of Small-Firm Economies in Italy and Taiwan - Marco Orrú
Dirigiste Capitalism in France and South Korea - Marco Orrú

East Asia's dynamic entrance into the global economy has provided a fruitful avenue for research in economic sociology. In this perceptive and timely volume, the authors theorize Asian capitalism and analyze the economic organization of East Asia.

Presenting differing dimensions of a Weberian perspective, the authors first provide a theoretical grounding, then consider capitalism in East Asia comparatively, and finally contrast the economies of East Asia and Europe. The book shows how radically different social and cultural institutions can lead to economies that are organized in remarkably similar ways.