Frontmatter — Introduction: Capitalism in Contrasting Cultures — Part I Capitalism’s Cultures — Lessons from Asia? — ‘Post-Confucianism’, Social Democracy and Economic Culture — Beyond Bureaucracy: Towards a Comparative Analysis of Forms of Economic Resource Co-ordination and Control — The Network Structures of East Asian Economies — The Embodiment of Industrial Culture in Bureaucracy and Management — Centrifugal Versus Centripetal Growth Processes: Contrasting Ideal Types for Conceptualizing the Developmental Patterns of Chinese and Japanese Firms — Part II Regulation and De-Regulation — Corporate Governance: A Ripple on the Cultural Reflection — Accounting: The Private Language of Business or an Instrument of Social Communication? — Deregulation and Degradation in Managerial Work — Part III Blockages and Breakthroughs in Organizational Adaptation — Efficiency, Ideology and Tradition in the Choice of Transactions Governance Structures: The Case of China as a Modernizing Society — Organizational Change and Stability in Japanese Factories: 1976-1983 — Japanese Influences on British Industrial Culture — The Dwarves of Capitalism: The Structure of Production and the Economic Culture of the Small Manufacturing Firm — Part IV Culture’s Consequences: Values in Action — The Cash Value of Confucian Values — Ethnicity and Religion in the Development of Family Capitalism: Seui-Seung-Yahn Immigrants from Hong Kong to Scotland — Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in the USA and Asia — Notes on Contributors — Index