PART ONE: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES Explaining Asian Economic Organization - Nicole Woolsey Biggart Toward a Weberian Institutional Perspective On the Limits of a Firm-Based Theory to Explain Business Networks - Nicole Woolsey Biggart and Gary G Hamilton The Western Bias of Neoclassical Economics Varieties of Hierarchies and Markets - Gary G Hamilton and Robert C Feenstra An Introduction PART TWO: CAPITALISM IN EAST ASIA Explaining Asian Business Success - Nicole Woolsey Biggart and Gary G Hamilton Theory No. 4 Market, Culture, and Authority - Gary G Hamilton and Nicole Woolsey Biggart A Comparative Analysis of Management and Organization in the Far East Organizational Isomorphism in East Asia - Marco Orru, Nicole Woolsey Biggart and Gary G Hamilton Patterns of Interfirm Control in Japanese Business - Marco Orru, Gary G Hamilton and Mariko Suzuki Institutionalized Patrimonialism in Korean Busines - Nicole Woolsey Biggart Organization and Market Processes in Taiwan's Capitalist Economy - Gary G Hamilton PART THREE: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS NETWORKS The Institutional Analysis of Capitalist Economies - Marco Orru Institutional Cooperation in Japanese and German Capitalism - Marco Orru The Institutional Logic of Small-Firm Economies in Italy and Taiwan - Marco Orru Dirigiste Capitalism in France and South Korea - Marco Orru