Witt, Michael A., Kabbach de Castro, Luiz Ricardo, Amaeshi, Kenneth, Mahroum, Sami, Bohle, Dorothee and Saez, Lawrence (2018) 'Mapping the business systems of 61 major economies: a taxonomy and implications for varieties of capitalism and business systems research.' Socio-Economic Review, 16 (1). pp. 5-38.
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Abstract
Efforts to build a universal theory of the world’s business systems require empirical grounding in an understanding of the variety that need explaining. To support such theorizing, we analyzed the institutional structures of 61 major economies, accounting for 93.5% of 2013 world GDP at purchasing power parity. We found nine main types of business systems: Highly Coordinated, Coordinated Market, Liberal Market, European Peripheral, Advanced Emerging, Advanced City, Arab Oil-Based, Emerging, and Socialist Economies. Our findings illustrate the need to go beyond the Varieties of Capitalism and Business Systems frameworks; provide empirical support for the CME versus LME dichotomy for part of the OECD; identify some of the business systems proposed recently as sub-types of larger clusters; indicate that institutional diversity may increase with development level; and cast doubt on the notions of state-led and family-led capitalism as types of business systems. Our discussion further suggests numerous avenues for theory development and empirical research.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > Department of Politics & International Studies Legacy Departments > Faculty of Law and Social Sciences > Department of Politics and International Studies |
| ISSN: | 1475147X |
| Copyright Statement: | © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press and the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwx012 |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Mar 2017 14:15 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/23770 |
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