Michael A. Witt

INSEAD

1 Ayer Rajah Avenue

Singapore, 138676

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http://faculty.insead.edu/michael-witt/research

Harvard University, Reischauer Institute

1730 Cambridge Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

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Mapping the Business Systems of 61 Major Economies: A Taxonomy and Implications for Varieties of Capitalism and Business Systems Research

Socio-Economic Review, 16(1), 5-38, 2018
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 15 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2018
Michael A. Witt, Luiz Ricardo Kabbach-Castro, Kenneth Amaeshi, Sami Mahroum, Dorothee Bohle and Lawrence Saez
INSEAD, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), University of Edinburgh Business School, INSEAD Abu Dhabi Campus, European University Institute and University of London - School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
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Varieties of Capitalism, Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, South America

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China: What Variety of Capitalism?

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2010/88/EPS
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 23 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2016
Michael A. Witt
INSEAD
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China, Varieties of Capitalism, Institutions

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Asian Business Systems: Institutional Comparison, Clusters, and Implications for Varieties of Capitalism and Business Systems Theory

Witt, Michael A., & Gordon Redding (2013). Asian Business Systems: Institutional Comparison, Clusters, and Implications for Varieties of Capitalism and Business Systems Theory. Socio-Economic Review, 11, 2, 265-300.
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2017
Michael A. Witt and Gordon Redding
INSEAD and INSEAD
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Asia, capitalism, varieties of, social capital, culture, China, Japan

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China: Authoritarian Capitalism

Witt, Michael A., & Gordon Redding (2014). China: Authoritarian Capitalism. In Michael A. Witt and Gordon Redding (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems, 11-32. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 07 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2015
Michael A. Witt and Gordon Redding
INSEAD and INSEAD
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China, Asia, business systems, varieties of capitalism, authoritarian capitalism, institutional change, informality, multiplexity

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Culture and the Business Systems of Asia

Redding, Gordon, Michael Bond, & Michael A. Witt (2014). The Role of Culture in Asian Business Systems. In Michael A. Witt and Gordon Redding (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems, 358-382. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 19 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2015
Gordon Redding, Michael Harris Bond and Michael A. Witt
INSEAD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and INSEAD
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culture, Asia, business systems, varieties of capitalism, institutions, socioeconomics, values, social axioms, rationale

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Japan: Coordinated Capitalism between Institutional Change and Structural Inertia

Witt, Michael A. (2014). Japan: Coordinated Capitalism Between Institutional Change and Structural Inertia. In Michael A. Witt and Gordon Redding (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems, 100-122. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2015
Michael A. Witt
INSEAD
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Japan, Asia, Business Systems, Varieties of Capitalism, Institutions, Institutional Change, Informality

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China's Business System and its Future Trajectory

Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 381-399, September 2009
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 05 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2009
Gordon Redding and Michael A. Witt
INSEAD and INSEAD
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China, varieties of capitalism, comparative business systems, development, innovation, efficiency, convergence, hybridization

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Outward Foreign Direct Investment as Escape Response to Home Country Institutional Constraints

Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 579-594, 2007
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 06 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2018
Michael A. Witt and Arie Y. Lewin
INSEAD and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
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outward foreign direct investment, institutional change, varieties of capitalism, comparative business systems, FDI

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South Korea: Plutocratic State-Led Capitalism Reconfiguring

Witt, Michael A. (2014). South Korea: Plutocratic State-Led Capitalism Reconfiguring. In Michael A. Witt and Gordon Redding (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems, 216-237. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 06 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2015
Michael A. Witt
INSEAD
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South Korea, Asia, Business Systems, Varieties of Capitalism, Institutions, Business Groups, Chaebol, State, Structural Inertia, Institutional Change

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Culture, Meaning, and Institutions: Executive Rationale in Germany and Japan

Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 859-885
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 06 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2017
Michael A. Witt and Gordon Redding
INSEAD and INSEAD
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rationale, culture, values, norms, institutions, varieties of capitalism, comparative business systems, Germany, Japan

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The Role of the State in Asian Business Systems

Carney, Richard W., & Michael A. Witt (2014). The Role of the State in Asian Business Systems. In Michael A. Witt and Gordon Redding (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems, 538-560. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 14 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2015
Richard W. Carney and Michael A. Witt
China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and INSEAD
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Government, State, Asia, Business Systems, Varieties of Capitalism, Institutions, Comparative Political Economy

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De-Globalization: Theories, Predictions, and Opportunities for International Business Research

Journal of International Business Studies, 50, 7, 1053-1077
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 05 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2019
Michael A. Witt
INSEAD
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globalization, internationalization theory, international relations and political science, political backlash, global institutions, trade blocs, political strategies, global supply chain strategies, institutional context

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Bibliography of Research on the Regional Ethnic Chinese of East Asia in Business

Number of pages: 155 Posted: 06 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2008
Gordon Redding and Michael A. Witt
INSEAD and INSEAD
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Regional Ethnic Chinese, Overseas Chinese

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Crossvergence 10 Years On: Impact and Further Potential

Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 47-52
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 06 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2017
Michael A. Witt
INSEAD
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crossvergence, culture, ideology, change, coevolution, comparative business systems

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Varieties of Capitalism and Institutional Comparative Advantage: A Test and Reinterpretation

Journal of International Business Studies, volume 47, issue 7, pp. 778-806, 2016
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 24 May 2016 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2016
Michael A. Witt and Gregory Jackson
INSEAD and Freie Universität Berlin
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Varieties of Capitalism, Economic Sociology, Comparative Advantage, Institutional Context, Fuzzy Set Methods

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The Spirits of Corporate Social Responsibility: Senior Executive Perceptions of the Role of the Firm in Society in Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and the United States

Socio-Economic Review, 10(1), 109-134
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 11 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2017
Michael A. Witt and Gordon Redding
INSEAD and INSEAD
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corporate social responsibility, culture, corporate governance

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Post-Transition China

CHINA'S CHANGING WORKPLACE, Peter Sheldon, Sunghoon Kim, Yiqiong Li, and Malcolm Warner, eds., London: Routledge, Forthcoming, INSEAD Working Paper No. 2010/25/EPS/EFE
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 17 Apr 2010
Gordon Redding and Michael A. Witt
INSEAD and INSEAD
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China, State-owned Enterprise, Private Enterprise, Local Corporates, Economic Development, Varieties of Capitalism, Comparative Business Systems, Complex Adaptive Systems

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Institutions and Corporate Social Responsibility

In Abagail McWilliams, Deborah Rupp, Donald Siegel, Günter K. Stahl, & David Waldman (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility: Psychological and Organizational Perspectives, 605-619. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 10 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2019
Michael A. Witt and Christof Miska
INSEAD and WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
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Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, Institutions

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Management in Southeast Asia: A Business Systems Perspective

Witt, Michael A. (2019). Management in Southeast Asia: A Business Systems Perspective. In Robert Grosse and Klaus Meyer (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Management in Emerging Markets, pp. 821-841. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press., INSEAD Working Paper No. 2019/17/STR
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 11 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2019
Michael A. Witt
INSEAD
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National Business Systems, Varieties of Capitalism, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand

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The 'Tray of Loose Sand': A Thick Description of the State-Owned Enterprise Sector of China Seen as a Business System

Asian Business & Management, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 87-112, 2006
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 06 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2009
Gordon Redding and Michael A. Witt
INSEAD and INSEAD
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comparative business systems, varieties of capitalism, China, state-owned enterprises, institutions, culture, comparative management

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Changing Japanese Capitalism: Societal Coordination and Institutional Adjustment

Michael A. Witt, CHANGING JAPANESE CAPITALISM: SOCIETAL COORDINATION AND INSTITUTIONAL ADJUSTMENT, Cambridge University Press, 2006
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2009
Michael A. Witt
INSEAD
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institutional change, social networks, varieties of capitalism, comparative business system, coevolution, institutions, convergence, globalization, social networks, intra-industry loops, keiretsu, R&D cooperatives, R&D consortia, Japan, Germany, United States of America

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Foundations of Responsible Leadership: Asian versus Western Executive Responsibility Orientations Toward Key Stakeholders

Witt, Michael A., & Günter K. Stahl (2016). Foundations of Responsible Leadership: Asian versus Western Assumptions about Key Stakeholders of the Firm. Journal of Business Ethics, 136, 3, 623-638.
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 11 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2016
Michael A. Witt and Günter K. Stahl
INSEAD and Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna)
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Business systems, culture, institutions, responsible leadership, varieties of capitalism

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The Future of Chinese Capitalism: Choices and Chances

Gordon Redding and Michael A. Witt, THE FUTURE OF CHINESE CAPITALISM: CHOICES AND CHANCES, Oxford University Press, 2007
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 06 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2016
Gordon Redding and Michael A. Witt
INSEAD and INSEAD
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China, varieties of capitalism, comparative business systems, institutional comparative advantage

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Good Things Take Time? Dynamics of Institutional Adjustment Processes and Their Economic Impact (Gut Ding Will Weile Haben? - Dynamik Institutioneller Anpassungsprozesse Und Ihre Wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen)

Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 279-291, 2007
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2008
Michael A. Witt
INSEAD
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institutional change, varieties of capitalism, comparative business systems, economic performance

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Advancing Indigenous Management Theory: Executive Rationale as an Institutional Logic

Management and Organization Review, 11, 2, 179-203
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 08 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2015
Gordon Redding and Michael A. Witt
INSEAD and INSEAD
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China, indigenous management theory, executive rationale, institutional logics, shareholder value, stakeholder value

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Configurations of Capacity for Change in Entrepreneurial Threshold Firms: Imprinting and Strategic Choice Perspectives

Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 52, Issue 4, pp. 506-530, 2015
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 29 Apr 2015
William Q. Judge, Helen Wei Hu, Jonas Gabrielsson, Till Talaulicar, Michael A. Witt, Alessandro Zattoni, Félix J. López-Iturriaga, Jean Jinghan Chen, Dhirendra Shukla, Majdi Anwar Quttainah, Emmanuel Adegbite, José Luis Rivas and Bruce Alan Kibler
Old Dominion University, University of Melbourne, Lund University - School of Economics and Management, University of Erfurt, INSEAD, University of Bocconi - Strategic and Entrepreneurial Management, Universidad de Valladolid - Department of Finance and Accounting, University of Southampton, University of New Brunswick - Fredericton, Kuwait University, University of Nottingham, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and Gannon University
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fuzzy set analysis, imprinting theory, IPO firms, organizational capacity for change, strategic choice theory