Network Q: Asian capitalism
2012 SASE Meeting (MIT, 28-30 June, 2012)
ProgramThursday, 28. June 2012

Socio-economic transformation and institutional change in Asia – Part 1 (8:30 am – 10am; # E51-061)
Chair: Sébastien LechevalierDiscussant: Robert Boyer• Uemura Hiroyasu et al.: “The Transformations of Japanese and Chinese Capitalisms
and Evolving Industrial Interdependence”• Conlé Marcus: “Organizational and Institutional Change in China’s Economic
Development: A Comparison of Four Industries”• Robert Eberhart: “Failure is an Option: Failure Barriers and New Firm Performance”
Socio-economic transformation and institutional change in Asia – Part 2 (10:15 am –11:45 am; # E51-061)
Chair: Cornelia Storz
Discussant: Robert Eberhart• Kato Sota: “ Valley of Institutional Change: Japanese Political Economy 1990-2005”• Lechevalier Sebastien & Robert Boyer: “Welfare diversity and evolution in Japan,Korea, and China: a regulationist interpretation”• Sala Adrienne: “Institutional change and the rise of consumer finance market inJapan”

Special panel sponsored by network Q (noon-1 pm; Wong auditorium)
Masahiko Aoki: “On the historical Origins of East Asian Capitalisms”

Innovation, entrepreneurship, knowledge and technology – Part 1 (2 pm – 3:30 pm; #E51-061)
Chair: Ken Coates
Discussant: Yasushi Hara
• Lazonick William: “China's Path to Indigenous Innovation”• Casper Steven & Storz Cornelia: “Diversity in the emergence of new industries:
Public sector engagement and networking in the emergence of the Japanese, Koreanand U.S. game industry”• Holroyd Carin: “National Innovation and Emergence of a New Asian Capitalism”
Innovation, entrepreneurship, knowledge and technology – Part 2 (3:45 pm – 5:15 pm; #E51-061)
Chair: Cornelia Storz

Discussant: Ken Coates• Hara Yasushi: “Patterns of Future-orientation in East Asia and Pacific countries - An
indicator analysis”• Anchordoguy Marie: “Entrepreneurship and the Future of Japanese Capitalism”• Karunakaran Arvind et al: “Entrepreneurship within Informal Economies in Rural
India: A Field Study”

Understanding China’s Capitalism: towards new theories and concepts? – Part 1 (3:45pm – 5:15 pm; # E51-063)
Chair: S. LechevalierDiscussant: Christopher McNally• Boyer Robert: “Diversity and internal heterogeneity of Asian capitalisms”• London Jonathan: “Market-Leninism”• Hou Xiaoshuo: “The Double Helix of China's Rise: A Chinese Model ofDevelopment?”

Friday, 29. June 2012

Asia and Comparative Political Economy (8:30 am – 10 am; # E51-061)
Chair: S. LechevalierDiscussant: Loraine Kennedy• Anthony D’Costa: “Compressed Capitalism in India: Is that Another Variety?”• Harada Yuji et al: “Institutional diversity, comparative advantageous industries, andheterogeneous firms in Asian capitalisms”• Eitzen Hilda Carper: “Competing Capitalisms Along the Asian Frontier: BusinessCluster Models in Kazakhstan and Western China”

Labor market, work relations and skills development in East Asia – Part 1 (8:30 am – 10am; # E51-390)
Chair: Cornelia Storz
Discussant: M. Vijavabaskar• Yu Kyoung-Hee & Frenkel et al: “Asian Capitalisms and Employment Relations”• Okada Aya: “Globalization and Changing Patterns of Skills Development in Chinaand India”• Barral Stéphanie: “Agrarian capitalism in Indonesia: a singular hybridization withtraditional order”
Labor market, work relations and skills development in East Asia – Part 2 (10:15 am –11:45 am; # E51-390)
Chair: Cornelia Storz
Discussant: David Chiavacci• ” Tiefenbach Tim: “"The Future of Japanese Capitalism: The Effects of Employment
Protection Legislation on the Unemployment Rate"• Sophia Lee: “Why is the non-standard employment rate high in Korea and Japan?Welfare production regimes in de-industrial East Asia”• Kondo Mari: Tale of Philippine capitalism: “From “inequality trapped” to “exodus”
capitalism”

Labor market, work relations and skills development in East Asia – Part 3 (2 pm – 3:30
pm; # E51-390)
Chair: Sébastien LechevalierDiscussant: Jean-François Huchet• Zhongjin Li: “The Political Economy of Labor Conflicts and Activism in China’s
Export Sector”• Zhang JunHua: “The divergence of the working class and the convergence oftransnational capital-China's paradigm and its impact on the global work pattern”• Schortgen Francis: “The Politics of Chinese Capitalism in the 21st Century”
East Asian Development State (3:45 pm – 5:15 pm; # E51-061)
Chair: S. LechevalierDiscussant: Giorgio Prodi

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Suzuki Taka: “After Embedded-Liberalism: The neoliberal hybridization of Japan'sdevelopmental state”
Chu Yin-Wah: “Developmental Alliance in Korea and Taiwan: Trajectories ofTransitions in the aftermath of Democratization”
Kalinowski Thomas: “East Asia’s global economic crisis management since 2008 andthe hybridization of East Asian developmental state capitalism”
Ahrens Joachim: “The Emergence of Developmental States in East Asia and Central
Asia from the perspective of the New Institutional Economics”

Special Panel 2: Emergence of Markets (3:45 pm – 5:15 pm; # E51-390)
Chair: Cornelia Storz• David Chiavacci• Florian Kohlbacher (German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo)• Cornelius Herstatt (Hamburg University of Technology) “Sectoral Innovation Systemand its Role in the Emergence of an Automobile Lead Market in India”• D. Venkata Ramana (Xavier Institute of Management): “Creating Flexible Financial
Capital through Social Capital:Experiments and Experience with the Street Vendors inIndia”

Saturday, 30. June 2012

The changing shape of industrial organization and work in China's new capitalism (8:30
am – 10 am; # E51-390)
Chair: Sébastien LechevalierDiscussant: Marcus Conlé• Jürgens / Krzywdzinsky Martin: “Competence Upgrading in Chinese AutomobileCompanies”• Herrigel Gary / Wittke / Voskamp: “New German global manufacturing strategies:
Product adaptation, localization and industrial upgrading in China”

Special Panel 1: State-centered regulation of industrial development in India and China– Part 1 (8:30 am – 10 am; # E51-233)
Chair: Jean-François Huchet
Discussant: Dann Naseemullah• M. Vijayabaskar: “Regional Embeddedness and Neoliberalised Growth:
Understanding Divergent Trajectories of Development in India”• Loraine Kennedy: “State-led industrialization via Special Economic Zones in India”
Revisiting Japan’s capitalism (11:30 am – 1 pm; # E51-390)
Chair: Cornelia Storz
Discussant: Florian Kohlbacher• Ueda Taske: “What do Accounting Numbers Tell Us About the Effects of Institutional
Change? An Empirical Approach”• Nelson Patricia: “Anachronistic Icons? Business Institutions in the Japanese Variant ofCapitalism”• Meyer-Ohle Hendrik: “Local Capitalism under Aging and Population Shrinkage:
Economic Vitality in a Provincial Japanese City”

Special Panel 1: State-centered regulation of industrial development in India and China– Part 2 (11:30 am – 1 pm; # E51-233)
Chair: Loraine Kennedy
Discussant: Doug Fuller• Jean-François Huchet : "The politics of reforming the Chinese growth model"• Giorgio Prodi : "One Dragon, Too Many Tigers: How the Articulation of Interests is
influencing China Rebalancing process"Special Panel 3: Asian Business Systems: Insights from the Oxford Handbook (1:30 pm– 3 pm; # E51-061)
Chair: Michael Witt
• Gordon Redding et al.: “Hong Kong”• Lawrence Saez: “India”• Edo Andriesse: “Laos”• Richard W. Carney: “Singapore”

•Michael A. Witt: “South Korea”

Global production networks, industrial organization, and industrial structure – Part 1(1:30 pm – 3 pm; # E51-390)
Chair: Steven Casper
Discussant: Cornelia Storz• Lee Joonkoo: “Globalization, Regional Production Networks and Divergent
Development Paths in East Asia: The Case of Mobile Phone Manufacturing”• Ling Chen: “Local Bureaucrats, Varieties of Global Capital, and the Divergent Pathsof Industrial Upgrading and Innovation in China’s Electronics Industry”• Byun Sung Woo: “Virtual or Vertical? Comparative Study of Supply Chains inJapanese and Korean Steel Industries”

Understanding China’s Capitalism: towards new theories and concepts? – Part 2 (3:15pm – 4:45 pm; # E51-085)
Chair: S. LechevalierDiscussant: Jean-François Huchet• Mitussis Darryn: “Where are the Consumers in Comparative Capitalism? The Case ofChinese (Consumer) Capitalism”• Gruin Julian: “Fused Institutions = (Con)Fused Rationalities? The Governance ofChina’s Banking Sector”• Yang Bian et al: “The Country Land Joint-Stock Cooperative: the Institutional
Innovation in Rural China”• McNally Christopher: “Internationalizing the Yuan: Exploring the Global
Ramifications of China’s Emergent Capitalism”

Global production networks, industrial organization, and industrial structure – Part 2(3:15 pm – 4:45 pm; # E51-390)
Chair: Cornelia Storz
Discussant: Hiroyasu Uemura• Suh Youngkyo: “Global Knowledge Transfer of East Asian Auto Industry:
Comparative study of Toyota and Hyundai”• Jeong Seeun: “Convergence of structure and productivity in manufacturing industries
in seven East Asian countries”• Szepan Marc: “Emerging Market Firms, Strategic Choices, and the State: The
Commercial Aircraft Industry in China”