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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