Download or read book African Sociological Review, 5,(2),2001 pp.00-00. BOOK REVIEWS. written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapter lays the foundations for perhaps the strongest and most interesting chapter of the entire book, when the author outlines six different types of national business systems, each characterized by different roles of the state, different financial systems, varying forms of skill development and control, and differing relations of trust and authority. [...] The final chapters of this volume look at the specific characteristics and changes in the composition of business systems in Asia and the newly liberalized economies of Eastern Europe. [...] They contrast the French notion of corps with the British one of profession, the former largely the product of state regulation and the latter of the market. [...] The following two chapters are case studies, of the experience of a Japanese multi-national in the UK, and of the transformation of regional governance in Baden-Wuertemburg in Germany. [...] The varying consequences of specific national institutional configurations, and the effects of relations of ownership, state interventions, and trust networks is of central importance in understanding the nature of contemporary capitalism.