Oxford Handbooks Online : The Oxford Handbook of Business History

The Oxford Handbook of Business History Jones, Geoffrey, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Harvard Business School Zeitlin, Jonathan, Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History, University of Wisconsin-Madison Print publication date: 2008 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926368-4 Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009
11 Business Groups and Interfirm Networks doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199263684.003.0011 W. Mark Fruin Abstract: Introduction – Concepts and Definitions – Scale, Scope, Speed, and Organizational Form – Business Groups in the Past and Today – Interfirm Networks – Conclusions Keywords: group, scale, network,
W. Mark Fruin is Professor of Corporate and Global Strategy in the College of Business at San Jose State University in the United States. Currently, he is researching governance, functional and performance differences relating to hierarchical and scale-free network organizations. He is also interested in the emergence of organizational and knowledge management practices in different industry and national environments, including China, Japan, and the United States.	W. Mark Fruin The Japanese Enterprise System in OSO External web page