{"product_id":"networks-markets-and-the-pacific-rim","title":"Networks, Markets, and the Pacific Rim","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespite the negative press Asian economies have received in connection with the recent financial crisis, their record of spectacular growth over the past few decades remains irrefutable. In an effort to provide a rich, textured analysis of these economies, editor W. Mark Fruin presents a collection of essays that explores the wide range of network organizations that have been established in the Pacific Rim.      Conventional studies of economic\n\u003cbr\u003eorganization have tended to center on  markets and hierarchies, the two forms of organization most common in the West.   But today the world moves too quickly and too unpredictably for the idealized\n\u003cbr\u003eorganizations of microeconomic theory to keep up.  It is no accident that the region that has generated the world's most explosive economic growth is also the region where network organizations--sets of independent actors who cooperate frequently for mutual advantage--are most pervasive. Rapid economic, social,  and technical changes favor the formation of network organizations, and vice versa.      The contributors to this volume identify and elucidate four basic types of networks:\n\u003cbr\u003enaturally occurring networks, market replacing networks, hierarchy replacing networks, and market enhancing networks.  They show how all of these have been shaped by the history, government, legal\n\u003cbr\u003esystem, and culture of each country under consideration.  These network organizations allow the authors to compare and contrast network forms in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States according to features such as degrees of formalization, rule definition, and market conformance.      The works collected here make an important contribution to a networks-markets- hierarchies framework that  recognizes and emphasizes the diversity of organizational forms and\n\u003cbr\u003ebehaviors.  A unique resource for scholars and professionals in the fields of management and economics, this book enables a complex analysis of one of the world's fastest growing and most theoretically\n\u003cbr\u003echallenging regions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156589048046,"sku":"9780195117202","price":331.74,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780195117202.jpg?v=1706235852","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/networks-markets-and-the-pacific-rim","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}