Organizational Behavior and Economic Practices
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The purpose of this research is to evaluate a scholarly article by Hamilton and Biggart that explains the functioning and emergence of organizational behavior and economic practices in the modern period in the context of East Asian cultural history, notably in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. The authors develop the view that Max Weber's analysis of organizational behavior as fundamentally structured around protocols of bureaucratic command and compliance is the best way to account for the manner in which the economies of these three countries became major economic and geopolitical players in the globalizing marketplace. To get to that point of analysis, they go through two other theories about how organizations operate in conditions of economic development that, they argue, do not give a sufficient account of the organizational experience of Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea.The first theory the authors discuss is called the "market approach," which says that top industrial organizations coordinate lines of materials supply, manufacturing, and purchasing through multiunit efforts that serve domestic and international economic activity and that technology helps those efforts. They say that fits Japan as far as it goes; however, they also think of this analysis as dated because it was applied before the advent of high technology. But in South Korea, that approach does not account for aggressive government participation in commerce. In Taiwan, it does not explain how smaller ente
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