Member of Visiting Review Committee for the Department of Sociology , National University of Singapore , 2006
External Examiner for the Department of Sociology , Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005-2007
Presentation before the U.S. —China Economic and Security Review Commission, May 19-20, 2005 hearing on “ China and the Future of Globalization”
Member of Adviso ry Committee, Institute of Sociology , Academia Sinica , Taiwan
Panel Member, Dissertation Awards in Sociology , National Science Foundation
Panel Member, Social Science Research Council, East Asian, Regional Area Panel, 2000-2003
Elected Council
Member, Section of Economic Sociology, American Sociological Association,
2001-2004
Editorial
Board, China Perspectives, 1998-
Editorial
Board, Cultural Dynamics, 1997-2000
University
Mentor, Lingnan College, Hong Kong, 1996
Editorial
Board, Journal of Asian Business, 1994-
Editorial
Board, Journal of Far Eastern Business, 1993-.2002
Editorial
Board, Competition and Change, A Journal of Global Political Economy,
1993-
Organizer
for Sessions in Comparative Sociology, American Sociological Association,
1997 Annual Meeting
Organizer
for Sessions in Economic Sociology, American Sociological Association,
1992 Annual Meeting
Council Member,
Section on Asia and Asian America, American Sociological Association,
1992-1994
External Examiner
for the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore,
1991-93
Consultant
for the Public Broadcasting System's "Mini-dragon Series"
Editorial
Board for de Gruyter series in Organizational Studies
Organizer
for session on historical sociology for the 1989 Pacific Sociological
Association Meeting in Reno, Nevada, April 1989
Member of
Editorial Board for Annual Review of Sociology Volume 16
Organizer
for sessions on comparative sociology and cross-national research
for the 1988 American Sociological Association Meeting in Atlanta
Georgia, August 1988
Organizer
for Session on "The History of Sociology" for 1983 meeting
of the American Sociological Association
Member at
Large, Advisory Council, Pacific Sociological Association, 1983-85.
Secretary, Section on Comparative Historical Sociology, American
Sociological Association, 1984-86
Chair of Program
Committee for 1981 meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association
Organizer
for Session on "Historical Sociology" for 1980 meeting
at American Sociological Association
United States
Army, Officer, Military Intelligence 1966-69 (OCS, 1966-67; Vietnam,
1967-68)
Principal Investigator, Rockefeller Foundation Grant for research on Global Retailing and Asian Manufacturing. $75,000 September 2005-December 2007
Principal Investigator, Sloan Foundation Grant to write an edited book on Global Retailing: Consequences for Suppliers and Customers, $44,000, July 2005- December 2007
Principal Investigator, Sloan Foundation Grant to hold a workshop on “ Mark eting, Merchandising, and Retailing: The Role of Intermediaries in Global Value-chains, May 2004-July 2005.
Principal
Investigator, Ford Foundation Grant for "Crossing Border:
Revitalizing Area Studies Program," September 1997-June 1999.
Co-Investigator,
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Grant, September 1996-August 1999
for a collaborative project on Taiwan's semi-conductor industry.
Co-Principal
Investigator, Ford Foundation Grant, January 1995-December 1996
for a collaborative project on business groups and international
trade in Taiwan and South Korea.
Co-Principal
Investigator, Royalty Research Fund, University of Washington,
August 1994-July 1995, for the study of Hong Kong Business Networks
in the 1940's.
Co-Principal
Investigator, Ford Foundation Grant, September 1991-September
1993 for a collaborative project on the economic characteristics
of East Asian business groups.
Co-Principal
Investigator, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Grant, September 1990-June
1993 for a collaborative project on Taiwan's economic organization.
Principal
Investigator, National Science Foundation Conference Grant, 1989-90
to host a conference on East Asian business networks at the Centre
of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong
Principal
Investigator of three Pacific Rim Research Grants, July 1986-June
1990 for collaborative projects on Asian business organization
Principal
Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant (SES-8606582),
July 1986-December 1989 for the comparative study of East Asian
inter-firm networks
Principal
Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant (Soc. 78-06945)
August 1978 - January 1981 for the study of California gubernatorial
appointees
Additional
non-research funding received for the East Asian Business and
Development Archive from Acer Corporation, Japan Foundation, and
the University of California.(1987-91)
Books
2006 Emergent Economies, Divergent Paths: Economic Organization and International Trade in South Korea and Taiwan . (with Robert C. Feenstra). New York : Cambridge University Press.
2006 Commerce and Capitalism in Chinese Societies . London : Routledge.
1999 Cosmopolitan Capitalists: Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora
at the end of the 20th Century. (Editor and contributor). University
of Washington Press.
1997 The Economic
Organization of East Asian Capitalism (with Marco Orrù
and Nicole Biggart). Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications..
1996 Editor
of Asian Business Networks. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. This is
a revised version of the below listed Business Networks and Economic
Development in East and Southeast Asia.
1992 From
the Soil: The Foundation of Chinese Society. A translation of
Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo, with Introduction and Epilogue
(with Wang Zheng). Berkeley: University of California Press.
1991 Editor
of Business Networks and Economic Development in East and Southeast
Asia. Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies.
1996 Menguak
Jaringan Bisnis Cina Di Asia Timur Dan Tenggara. Translated into
Indonesian by Alexander Irwan. Jakarta: Penerbit PT Gramedia Pustaka
Utama.
1990 Zhongguo
shehui yu jingji (Chinese Society and Economy; a collection and
translation of my articles on Chinese society, in Chinese), Chang
Wei-an, Jai Ben-ray, and Chen Chieh-hsuan (editors and translators).
Taipei: Lien-ching.
1984 Governor
Reagan, Governor Brown: A Sociology of Executive Power (with Nicole
Biggart). New York: Columbia University Press.
Book Chapters
2006 “Global Retailers and Asian Manufacturers,” (with Misha Petrovic ). Pp. 208-220 in Handbook of Research on Asian Business, edited by Hen ry Wai-chung Yeung. Cheltenham , UK : Edward Elgar.
2006 “Making Global Mark ets: Wal-Mart and Its Suppliers” (with Misha Petrovic) Pp. 107-142 in Wal-Mart: The Face of 21 st Centu ry Capitalism , edited by Nelson Lichtenstein. New York : The New Press.
2003 “The Influence of Commercial Organization on Commodity Production: Cotton Textiles in 19 th and Early 20 th Centu ry China ”(with Chang Wei-an). Pp. 173-213 in The Resurgence of East Asia , edited by Giovanni Arrighi, Takeshi Hamashita, and Mark Selden. London : Routledge.
2001 "Social Logic as Business Logic: Guanxi, Trustworthiness,
and the Embeddedness of Chinese Business Practices" (with
Wai-keung Chung). Pp. 325-346 in The Legal Culture of Global Business
Transactions, edited by Richard Appelbaum, William Felstinger,
and Volkmar Gessner. Oxford: Hart Publishing.
2001 "The
Organization of the Taiwanese and South Korean Economies: A Comparative
Equilibrium Analysis," (with Robert Feenstra and Deng-Shing
Huang). Pp. 86-142 in Networks and Markets, edited by James Rauch
and Alessandra Casella. New York: Russell Sage.
2001 "Introduction"
(with James Rauch). Integrating Networks and Markets. Pp. 1-29
in Networks and Markets, edited by James Rauch and Alessandra
Casella. New York: Russell Sage.
2000 "Reciprocity
and Control: The Organization of Chinese Family-owned Conglomerates."
Pp. 55-74 in Globalization of Chinese Business Firms, edited by
Henry Wai-chung Yeung and Kris Olds. New York: St Martins Press.
1999 "Asian
Business Networks in Transition or What Alan Greenspan Does Not
Know about the Asian Business Crisis." Pp. 45-61 in The Politics
of the Asian Economic Crisis, edited by T.J. Pempel. Ithaca, N.Y.:
Cornell University Press
1998 "Patterns
of Asian Capitalism: The Cases of Taiwan and South Korea."
Pp. 181-199 in Networks, Markets, and the Pacific Rim: Studies
in Strategy, ed. by Mark Fruin. New York: Oxford University Press.
1998 "The
Organization of Economies" (with Robert Feenstra). Pp. 153-180
in The New Institutionalism in Sociology, edited by Victor Nee
and Mary Brinton. New York: Russell Sage.
2001 "The
Organization of Economies" (with Robert Feenstra). Pp. 153-180
in The New Institutionalism in Sociology, edited by Victor Nee
and Mary Brinton. Second Edition. Stanford: Stanford University
Press.
1998 "The
Organization of the Taiwanese and South Korean Economies: A Comparative
Analysis" (with Robert Feenstra). Pp. 5-23-5-56 in The Economic
Implications of Liberalizing APEC Tariff and Nontariff Barriers
to Trade. Washington, DC: U.S. International Trade Commission
1998 "Culture
and Organization in Taiwan's Market Economy." Pp. 41-77 in
Market Cultures: Society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms,
edited by Robert Hefner. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
1997 "Hong
Kong and the Rise of Capitalism in Asia." Pp. 118-148 in
Dynamic Hong Kong: Its Business and Culture, edited by Wang Gungwu
and Wong Siu-lun. Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, The University
of Hong Kong.
1997 "Ethnicity
and Capitalist Development: The Changing Role of the Chinese in
Thailand." (with Tony Waters) Pp. 258-284 in Essential Outsiders:
Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia
and Central Europe, edited by Daniel Chirot and Anthony Reid.
Seattle: University of Washington Press.
1996 "The
Organization of Capitalism in South Korea and Taiwan." Pp.
19-44 in Hongkong Bank of Canada, Papers on Asia. No. 2, edited
by A.E. Safarian and Wendy Dobson. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press.
1996 "The
Theoretical Significance of Asian Business Networks" A new
chapter added to Asian Business Networks. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
1996 "Overseas
Chinese Capitalism." Pp. 328-342 in Confucian Traditions
in East Asian Modernity, edited by Tu Wei-ming, Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press.
1995. "Economic
Organization and Chinese Business Networks in Thailand."
Pp. 87-111 in Corporate Links and Direct Foreign Investment in
Asia and the Pacific, edited by Edward K.Y. Chen Peter Drysdale.
Pymble, NSW, Australia: HarperEducational Publishers.
1994 "Civilizations
and the Organization of Economics." Pp. 183-205 in The Handbook
of Economic Sociology, ed by Neil J. Smelser and Richard Swedberg.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
1992 "On
the Limits of a Firm-Based Theory to Explain Business Networks:
The Western Bias of Neoclassical Economics" (with Nicole
Biggart) in Organizations and Networks, edited by Nitin Nohria
and Robert Eccles, Harvard Business School Press.
1991 "The
Organizational Foundations of Western and Chinese Commerce: A
Historical and Comparative Analysis." Chapter prepared for
Business Networks and Economic Development in East and Southeast
Asia.
1991 "Organizational
Isomorphism in East Asia: Broadening the New Institutionalism"
(with Marco Orrù and Nicole Biggart) In The New Institutionalism
in Organizational Analysis, edited by Walter W. Powell and Paul
J. DiMaggio. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 361-389.
1990 "Tien
gao huangti yuan" (Heaven is High and the Emperor Is Far
Away). In Chinese, an English original translated into Chinese
by Jai Ben-ray. Chinese Society and Economy. Taipei: Lien-ching.
1990 "The
Network Structures of East Asian Economies" (with William
Zeile and Wan-Jin Kim). In Capitalism in Contrasting Cultures,
edited by S.R. Clegg and S.G. Redding. Berlin: de Gruyter.
1989 "The
Organizational Structure of East Asian Business Groups" (with
Marco Orrù). In Korean Managerial Dynamics, edited by Kae
H. Chung and Hak Chong Lee. New York: Praeger Publishers. (A revised
version of a 1987 article by the same name published in Proceedings,
Pan-Pacific Conference IV, pp. 124-127.)
1988 "Consumerism
without Capitalism: Consumption and Brand Names in Late Imperial
China" (with Lai Chi-kong). In The Social Economy of Consumption,
edited by Benjamin Orlove and Henry Rutz.
1988 "The
Future for History in Sociology" (with John Walton). In The
Future of Sociology, edited by Edgar Borgatta and Karen Cook.
Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
1984 "Configuration
in History: The Historical Sociology of S.N. Eisenstadt,"
In Vision and Method in Historical Sociology, edited by Theda
Skocpol. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Articles
2003 "A Mark et-Power Based Model of Business Groups," (with Robert C. Feenstra and Deng-Shing Huang). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 51: 459-485.
2002 “ Chaebols and Catastrophe: A New View of Korean Business Groups and Their Role in the Financial Crisis,” (with Robert C. Feenstra and Eun Mie Lim), East Asian Economic Papers 1:2, pp. 1-45.
2000 "Reflexive Manufacturing: Taiwan's Integration in the
Global Economy" (with Cheng-shu Kao). International Studies
Review 3,1 (June): 1-19.
2000 "Neither
States Nor Markets: The Role of Economic Organization in Asian
Development" (with Robert Feenstra, Wongi Choe, Chung Ku
Kim and Eun Mie Lim). International Sociology. 15 (2, June): 291-308.
1999 "Business
Groups and Trade in East Asia: Product Variety" (with Robert
Feenstra and Maria Yang), Journal of International Economics 48:71-100.
1997 "Chuantong
Zhongguo mianfangzhi shougungye de zhuanxing" (The transformation
of China's traditional handicraft industry) (with Chang Wei-an).
Difang shehui (Local society) 1, 1: 211-254.
1996 "The
Quest for a Unified Economics." Industrial and Corporate
Change 5, 3: 907-916.
1996 "Competition
and Organization: A Reexamination of Chinese Business Practices."
Journal of Asian Business 12, 1: 7-20.
1995 "Varieties
of Hierarchies and Markets." (with Robert Feenstra) Industrial
and Corporate Change 4 (1):51-92.
1998 Reprinted
in Giovanni Dosi, David J. Teece and Josef Chytry (eds.) Technology,
Organization and Competitiveness: Perspectives on Industrial and
Corporate Change. Oxford University Press.
1995 "Contextualizing
Organizations in Societies and History" Newsletter of the
Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological
Association Vol 7, No. 3.
1991 "The
Organization of Business in Taiwan:" A Reply to Numazaki"
(with Nicole Biggart). American Journal of Sociology 96:999-1006.
1990 "The
Institutional Foundations of Chinese Business: The Family Firm
in Taiwan" (with Kao Cheng-shu). Comparative Social Research
12: 95-112.
1990 "Patterns
of Inter-firm Control in Japanese Business" (with Marco Orrù
and Mariko Suzuki). Organization Studies 10: 549-574.
1990 "Patriarchy,
Patrimonialism and Filial Piety: A Comparison of China and Western
Europe." British Journal of Sociology 41 (March): 77-104.
1991 Translated
version in Chinese Religious Ethics and Modernization edited by
Wong Sui-lun, Social Science Research Center, University of Hong
Kong.
1990 "Explaining
Asian Business Success: Theory No. 4" (with Nicole Biggart).
Business and Economics Review 5: 11-16.
1989 "The
Problem of Control in the Weak State: Domination in the U.S.,
1880-1920" (with John Sutton). Theory and Society 18 (January).
1989 "Heaven
is High and the Emperor is Far Away" (an extensively revised
version of the essay first prepared for Chinese Society and Economy).
Revue europeenne des sciences sociales 27: 141-167.
1988 "Market,
Culture, and Authority: A Comparative Analysis of Management and
Organization in the Far East" (with Nicole Woolsey Biggart),
American Journal of Sociology, Special Issue on Economic Sociology
94 (July): S52-S94.
1991 Reprinted
in Sociology of Economic Life, Mark Granovetter and Richard Swedberg
(eds.). Boulder: Westview Press.
1994 Reprinted
in Complex Organizations, edited by Richard Hall. Aldershot: England:
Dartmouth Publishing Company.
1995 Reprinted
in The Political Economy of East Asia: China, Korea, and Taiwan,
Vol 2. edited by John Ravenhill. Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar
Publishing.
1987 "An
Institutional Theory of Leadership" (with Nicole Biggart).
The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 23: 429-441.
1987 "Enterprise
Groups in East Asia: An Organizational Analysis" (with Marco
Orrù and Nicole Biggart). Shoken Keizai (Financial Economic
Review) 161 (September): 78-106.
1987 "Max
Weber and the Analysis of East Asian Industrialization" (with
Kao Cheng-shu). International Sociology 2: 289-300.
1987 "The
Organizational Structure of East Asian Business Groups: A Comparative
Analysis of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan" (with Marco Orrù).
Proceedings, Pan-Pacific Conference IV: 124-127.
1987 "The
'New History' in Sociology." Journal of Politics, Culture
and Society 1 (1): 89-114. (Revised version of 1985 article by
the same title.)
1986 "Jinshi
Zhongguo shangbiao yu quanguo dushi shihchang" (Chinese brandnames
and the national marketing system in modern times) (with Lai Chi-kang).
The Proceedings of the Conference on the Recent History of Chinese
Regionalism, Taipei, Taiwan: Academia Sinica, 49-84.
1985 "Temporary
Migration and the Institutionalization of Strategy." International
Journal of Intercultural Relations 9: 405-425.
1985 "The
'New History' in Sociology." Tunghai Journal of Social Sciences
3: 321-344.
1985 "Why
No Capitalism in China: Negative Questions in Comparative Historical
Sociology." Journal of Developing Societies 2: 187-211.
1985 Reprinted
in Andreas E. Buss (ed.) Max Weber in Asian Studies. Leiden: E.J.
Brill, 65-89.
1985 "Why
People Obey: Theoretical Observations on Power and Obedience in
Complex Organizations" (with Nicole Biggart), Sociological
Perspectives 28, (January): 3-28.
1984 "The
Power of Obedience" (with Nicole Biggart). Administrative
Science Quarterly 29, (December): 540-549.
1984 "Patriarchalism
in Imperial China and Western Europe: A Revision of Weber's Sociology
of Domination." Theory and Society 13, (May): 393-426.
1983 "Discipline
and Education: The Neo-Classical Pedagogy of Modern Universities."
Journal of Thought 18, (Winter): 107-116.
1980 "Making
the Dilettante an Expert" (with Nicole Biggart). The Journal
of Applied Behavioral Science 16 (2): 192-210.
1979 "Regional
Associations and the Chinese City: A Comparative Perspective."
Comparative Studies in Society and History 21 (3): 338-353.
1978 "Pariah
Capitalism: A Paradox of Power and Dependence." Ethnic Groups:
An International Periodical of Ethnic Studies 2 (Spring): 1-15.
1978 "The
Structural Sources of Adventurism." American Journal of Sociology
83 (May): 1466-1490.
1977 "Chinese
Merchant Associations: Conspiracy or Combination." Ch'ing-shih
Wen-ti 3 (December): 50-71.
1977 "Ethnicity
and Regionalism: Some Factors Influencing Chinese Identities in
Southeast Asia." Ethnicity 4:337-351.
1977 "Chinese
Consumption of Foreign Commodities: A Comparative Perspective."
American Sociological Review 42 (December): 877-891.
1986 Translation:
"Zhongguo ren dui weiguo shangpin de xiaofei: yige bijao
de guandian." Translated by Chang Wei-an. Si yu yan (Thought
and Word) 24, (November): 406-425.
