This chapter of the Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems examines how states influence the structure of national business systems in Asia. It begins with an overview of literature on the state's role with regard to the institutional arrangements of capitalist systems in non-Asian as well as...

Institutional development in new and potential member countries determines the success of both the catching-up of developing European countries and the deepening of the European integration process. This paper argues that the timing of future enlargement should depend on institutional...