Dennis McNamara received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University, and serves as Park
Professor of Sociology and Korean Studies at Georgetown University. He has publishedextensively on the political economy of East Asian society. He continues a regular round oflecturing and research in Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, as well as Bangkok. He has been awarded
numerous Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays fellowships, as well as a fellowship from the National
Science Foundation. He serves as a member of the Council of Foreign Relations in New York,and chairs the Korea Seminar at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department. He isactive in the APEC Academic Centers group, the International Studies Association, theInternational Sociological Association, and the European Academy of Management (EURAM).
He serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of International Studies at Sogang
University (Seoul), and lectures at Renmin and Fudan Universities in China, Waseda and Sophia
in Tokyo, and Thammasat University in Bangkok. His appointment as Special Assistant for
China in the President’s Office of Georgetown University since 2008 permits residence inBeijing and Asia for much of the year.
His current research interests include Japan’s soft power, the interplay of innovation andproperty rights in China’s knowledge networks, and a comparative study of National Innovation
Systems in East Asia.
Recent Publications

Books:
Business Innovation in Asia - Knowledge and Technology Networks from Japan. London: RoutledgePress, 2009.
Market and Society in Korea – Interest, Institution and the Textile Industry. London: Routledge Press,
2002.
Corporatism and Korean Capitalism. London: Routledge Press, 1999. [edited volume, articles listedbelow]
Trade and Transformation in Korea, 1876-1945. Boulder CO: Westview/Perseus Press, 1996.
Textiles and Industrial Transition in Japan. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Colonial Origins of Korean Enterprise, 1910-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Articles:“Knowledge Networks in East Asia – From Commerce to Community.” Pp. 59-82 in Lim Hyun-Chin,
Wolf Schaefer, and Suk-man Hwang, eds., New Asias: Global Futures of World Regions. Seoul:Seoul National University Press, 2010.

“Corporatist State.” Pp. 352-353 in Peter N. Stearns, ed., Encyclopedia of the Modern World, vol. 1 (NewYork: Oxford University Press, 2008).
“Corporatist State: East Asia.” Pp. 353-354 in Peter N. Stearns, ed., Encyclopedia of the Modern Worldvol. 1 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
“Clusters.” Pp. 171-173 in Stewart Clegg and James Bailey.eds., International Encyclopedia ofOrganization Studies, volume 1 (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2008).
“New Places but Old Spaces –Knowledge Hierarchies among Asian SMEs Abroad.” Organization – The
Critical Journal of Organization, Theory and Society 13, 4 (2006): 549-567.
“Knowledge and Thai Networks in the New East Asian Region.” Thammasat Review (ThammasatUniversity, Bangkok, Thailand) Vol. 9 (December 2004): 1-21. Published Fall, 2005.
“Industry and National Identity – Globalizing the Korean Auto Industry.” Pp. 318-328 in David Steinberg,ed., Korean Attitudes toward the United States (New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2005).
“Security and Society within the Northeast Asian Region.” Pp. 163-175 in Byung Chul Koh, ed., TheKorean Peninsula in Transition: The Summit and Its Aftermath. Seoul: The Institute for Far
Eastern Studies [IFES], Kyungnam University, 2003.
“Trust and Technology Transfer in Global Production Chains.” Pp. 180-188 in International Social
Economy Association ed., Proceedings of the International Symposium on Unemployment andPoverty - Causes and Remedies. Rome: INAIL, 2002.