The Dwarves of Capitalism: The Structure of Production and the Economic Culture of the Small Manufacturing Firm

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Introduction: Capitalism in Contrasting Cultures 1
3. Part I Capitalism’s Cultures — Lessons from Asia?
4. ‘Post-Confucianism’, Social Democracy and Economic Culture 31
5. Beyond Bureaucracy: Towards a Comparative Analysis of Forms of Economic Resource Co-ordination and Control 79
6. The Network Structures of East Asian Economies 105
7. The Embodiment of Industrial Culture in Bureaucracy and Management 131
8. Centrifugal Versus Centripetal Growth Processes: Contrasting Ideal Types for Conceptualizing the Developmental Patterns of Chinese and Japanese Firms 153
9. Part II Regulation and De-Regulation
10. Corporate Governance: A Ripple on the Cultural Reflection 187
11. Accounting: The Private Language of Business or an Instrument of Social Communication? 215
12. Deregulation and Degradation in Managerial Work 249
13. Part III Blockages and Breakthroughs in Organizational Adaptation
14. Efficiency, Ideology and Tradition in the Choice of Transactions Governance Structures: The Case of China as a Modernizing Society 281
15. Organizational Change and Stability in Japanese Factories: 1976-1983 315
16. Japanese Influences on British Industrial Culture 333
17. The Dwarves of Capitalism: The Structure of Production and the Economic Culture of the Small Manufacturing Firm 355
18. Part IV Culture’s Consequences: Values in Action
19. The Cash Value of Confucian Values 383
20. Ethnicity and Religion in the Development of Family Capitalism: Seui-Seung-Yahn Immigrants from Hong Kong to Scotland 391
21. Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in the USA and Asia 409
22. Notes on Contributors 429
23. Index 435