1st Edition

Mafioso, Big Business and the Financial Crisis The State-business Relations in South Korea and Japan

By Ingyu Oh Copyright 1999
227 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

227 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1999, this book explores the question of is the business organisation a result of efficiency or is it a result of a state-business organisation a result of a state-business interaction? This question being in the context of the Korean chaebol system and the Japanese Keiretsu system; this book explores the political and economic growth and then the following down fall of these... Read more

1. Introduction.  2. The Chaebol and the Keirestsu : The Futility of Organizational Explanations.  3. Explaining the Rise of the Mafioso States in East Asia.  4. The South Korean State and the Chaebol.  5. The Japanese State and the Keiretsu.  6. Reforming the Chaebol and the Keiretsu.  7. Conclusion.

Biography

Ingyu Oh