Dear list members,

We have shifted the deadline for our network “Asian Capitalisms” at SASE’s 24th Annual Meeting, Milano, to January 15th , 2013. We are looking forward to your submissions!

Sebastien Lechevalier, Boy Lüthje, Cornelia Storz, Tobias ten Brink
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Cornelia Storz
Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration www.mm.uni-frankfurt.de/~storz

Von: Storz, Cornelia
Gesendet: Montag, 10. September 2012 11:48
An: 'ssj-forum[at]iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp'
Betreff: call for papers - Asian Capitalisms

Call for papers
SASE – Network Q: Asian Capitalisms
SASE’s 24th Annual Meeting, Università Degli Studi di
Milano, (June 27-29, 2013)

Organizers:

Cornelia Storz (Frankfurt University)
Sebastien Lechevalier (EHESS
Boy Lüthje (Frankfurt Institute of Social Research/East
West Center)
Tobias ten Brink (Max Planck Institute for the Study of
Societies)

In the discussions in social sciences, especially among
economists, and political scientists, on the diversity
of capitalism, Asian capitalisms have been
under-researched. Theories and concepts of comparative
capitalism have still to be applied to Asia and tested
within the specific institutional configurations of
Asian countries. The very nature of capitalism, its
internal diversity, and its patterns of institutional
change are facets that are especially fascinating to
analyze for Asia. More specifically, the apparent lack
of coherence and immense heterogeneity of production,
regulation and its related building up of institutions
in the case of China; the different speeds of change in
Japan and in Korea, despite seemingly similar
institutional arrangements; the specific institutional
structures of city states as in Hong Kong and
Singapore; the rapid integration of different models
and levels of economic development within the “China
Circle”, particularly between the Peoples’ Republic of.
China and Taiwan; and the idiosyncratic specialization
of industry in India, based on textiles, Information
Technology and people based services such as call
centers; all these need a fundamental re-analysis of
the comparative advantages of their institutions, and
of their various modes of growth under capitalism.

The network will focus on five areas: (a) De- or
Re-industrialisation? (b) Innovation, Human Resource
Management and Knowledge Creation (c) Beyond Market or
State? (d) The future of Asian Capitalism, and (e)
Welfare, Inequalities, and Institutional Change. We are
also planning to have a section for PhD candidates and
an additional special section for papers that do not
fit into one of the above categories, but are
nonetheless interesting contributions. The submission
of panels is welcome. The basic idea of this first area
network within SASE is to make Asia a central field of
investigation for theories of institutional change and
the diversity of capitalism. In doing so, we expect to
promote a fruitful dialogue between specialists on Asia
on the one hand, and specialists on comparative
capitalism, including those working on other regions,
on the other hand. We welcome papers focusing on Asian
capitalisms and papers adopting a comparative
perspective on other capitalistic societies.

How to apply: www.sase.org (Please note that you do not
have to be a member to submit a proposal. However, you
do need to create a login). Deadline for applications:
Dec 15th 2012 for abstracts, June 1st for completed
papers. For further information, please contact
Cornelia Storz (storz[at]wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de)

This network is supported by Fondation France-Japon de
l’EHESS (http://ffj.ehess.fr/), which will fund the
award for the best paper and the travel grants. The
network will award a prize for the best paper on Asian
capitalisms (amount: Euro 1000). To have your paper
considered for the prize, please send it by May 15th
2012 to sebastien.lechevalier[at]ehess. Information
regarding the prize committee and the rules of the
prize will be available on the FFJ and SASE websites.

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Dr. Cornelia Storz
Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business
Administration
Goethe-University
Grüneburgplatz 1 (RuW-Gebäude R. 4241)
D-60323 Frankfurt am Main
Tel.: +49-69-798-34811 / -34809

Research Policy Special Issue (co-editor) "Path
dependent dynamics of emergence and evolution of new
industries",
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/research-policy
Socio Economic Review Special Issue "Asian Capitalisms"
(co-editor), http://ser.oxfordjournals.org
SASE Network Q "Asian Capitalisms" (co-organizer),
http://www.sase.org

Recent books:
Institutional Diversity and Innovation - Continuing and
Emerging Patterns in Japan and China
(co-authored with Sebastian Schäfer, with a guest
contribution of Markus Conlé and a preface of Richard
Whitley), Routledge 2011

Institutional Variety in East Asia. Formal and informal
patterns of coordination (co-edited with Markus Taube,
Werner Pascha), Edward Elgar 2011.