Date: 2018
Type: Article
Mapping the business systems of 61 major economies : a taxonomy and implications for varieties of capitalism and business systems research
Socio-economic review, 2018, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 5-38
WITT, Michael A., KABBACH DE CASTRO, Luiz Ricardo, AMAESHI, Kenneth, MAHROUM, Sami, BOHLE, Dorothee, SAEZ, Lawrence, Mapping the business systems of 61 major economies : a taxonomy and implications for varieties of capitalism and business systems research, Socio-economic review, 2018, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 5-38
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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.
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Published: 05 April 2017
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/59929
Full-text via DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwx012
ISSN: 1475-1461; 1475-147X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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