Global Shifts: Implications for Business, Government and Labour

Global Shifts: Implications for Business, Government and Labour

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
SASE's 24th annual meeting
June 28-30, 2012
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Network Q - Asian Capitalisms

 

In addtition to its 17 exciting networks, we are delighted to announce the arrival of a new network on Asian Capitalisms organized by Tobias ten Brink (Max Planck Institute), Sebastien Lechevalier (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Boy Lüthje (Frankfurt Institute of Social Research), and Cornelia Storz (University of Frankfurt).

The basic idea of this first area network within SASE is to make Asia a central field of investigation for theories of institutional change and diversity of capitalism.

Comparative capitalism (CC) theories and concepts still have to be applied to Asia and tested within specific institutional configurations. In terms of CC approaches, open questions are the apparent lack of coherence and immense heterogeneity of capitalist production and regulation and the related institution building in the case of China, the different speed of institutional change in Japan and Korea despite seemingly similar institutional arrangements, the specific institutional structures of city states as Hong Kong and Singapore, the rapid integration of different models and levels of economic development within the “China Circle”, particularly between the P. R. China and Taiwan, idiosyncratic industrial specialization based on textile, IT or services such as call centers that requires a renewed analysis of institutional comparative advantage, as well as the interaction of various modes of capitalist growth at very different levels of development within the regional context.