Preface -- 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.