Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Making Sense of the Contemporary Firm and Prefiguring Its Future 1
4. PART ONE. Portraits from Three Regions
5. CHAPTER 2. The Capitalist Firm in the Twenty-First Century: Emerging Patterns in Western Enterprise 33
6. CHAPTER 3. Ambiguous Assets for Uncertain Environments: Heterarchy in Postsocialist Firms 69
7. CHAPTER 4 Japanese Enterprise Faces the Twenty-First Century 105
8. PART TWO. Commentaries
9. CHAPTER 5. The Durability of the Corporate Form 147
10. CHAPTER 6. The Future of the Firm from an Evolutionary Perspective 161
11. CHAPTER 7. Firms (and Other Relationships) 186
12. CHAPTER 8. Welcome to the Seventeenth Century 200
13. CHAPTER 9. Conclusion: The Futures of Business Organization and Paradoxes of Change 210
14. References 245
15. Index 271