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Globalization and the Renewal of Asian Business Networks

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How are Asia's business networks responding to the growing integration of the region into the global economy? To address the question the paper identifies two distinct types of Asian business network originating in two different institutional contexts. It is argued that these original contexts have imprinted upon dominant firms' governance structures and influence their preferred networking mode. Consequently, the renewal of business networks reflects the pressures of globalization and the governance structures of the dominant organizational forms in the networks. Two types of network (global commodity chains and family business groups) are described and the global pressures for change bearing upon them outlined.

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Carney, M. Globalization and the Renewal of Asian Business Networks. Asia Pacific J Manage 22, 337–354 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-005-4114-z

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