The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups

by James R. Lincoln, Takashi Hikino, Asli M. Colpan

Business Groups--large, diversified, often family-controlled organizations, such as the Japanese keiretsu and the Korean chaebol--have played a significant role in national economic growth, especially in emerging economies. Earlier variants can also be found in the trading companies, often set
up in Britain, which operated in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Business Groups are often criticized as premodern forms of economic organization,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019955286X
• ISBN13: 9780199552863
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 752 Pages