Adapt, Fragment, Transform: Corporate Restructuring and System Reform in South Korea

この書籍は、東アジア研究所とスタンフォード大学(Stanford University)のウォルター・H・ショレンシュタイン・アジア太平洋研究センター(The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center)が2006年に共同で開催した学術会議の成果をまとめたものであり、国家主導で発展してきた韓国経済を、韓国固有の政治制度に基づいて解釈し、政治経済的制度改革に関する成果と課題を分析している。

South Korea’s market-initiated corporate restructuring turned into a state-driven system reform — and the target of that reform, the giant family-owned business groups known as "chaebŏl, ended up instead being rejuvenated."

South Korea remains a puzzle for political economists. The country has experienced phenomenal economic growth since the 1960s, yet its upward trajectory has been repeatedly diverted by serious systemic crises, followed by spectacular recoveries. The recoveries are often the result of vigorous structural reforms that nonetheless retain many of South Korea’s traditional economic institutions. How, then, can South Korea suffer from persistent systemic instability and yet prove so resilient? What remains the same and what changes?

The contributors to this volume offer insight into these questions by considering the South Korean economy in its larger political context. Moving beyond the easy dichotomies — equilibrium vs. disequilibrium and stability vs. instability — they describe a complex and surprisingly robust economic and political system. Further, they argue that neither systemic challenges nor political pressures alone determine South Korea’s stability and capacity for change. Instead, it is distinct patterns of interaction that shape this system’s characteristics, development, and evolution.

目次

1. Introduction: Between Functional and Political Explanations | Byung-Kook Kim

SECTION I Patterns and Processes of Change

2. A Search for Institutionally Complementary Reform | Byung-Kook Kim

3. Continuity and Change in South Korea’s Chaebŏl Reform Since the Asian Financial Crisis | Dukjin Chang, Eun Mee Kim, and Chunwoong Park

SECTION II Forces of Change in Corporate Restructuring

4. Presidential Power, Political Parties, and Corporate Restructuring in South Korea | Jung Kim

5. State Coordination in Transition and Corporate Restructuring in South Korea | Joo-Youn Jung

6. Financial Regulation and Corporate Restructuring in Korea | Heon Joo Jung

7. The Role of Foreign (Direct) Investment in Corporate Governance Reform in South Korea | Eun Mee Kim, Nahee Kang, and Ji Hyun Kim

SECTION III Consequences of Change

8. Enterprise Unions and the Segmentation of the Labor Market | Jiyeoun Song

9. Welfare Institutional Change in South Korea | Ito Peng

編著者

Byung-Kook Kimは韓国国立外交院の学長である。彼は高麗大学政治外交学科で教鞭をとり、東アジア研究所の初代所長も務めた。

Eun Mee Kimは梨花女子大学国際大学院の学部長兼教授であり、開発・人権保障研究所の所長である。彼女は現在、韓国国際開発協力学会の会長を務めている。

Jean C. Oiはスタンフォード大学政治学科のウィリアム・ハス中国政治学教授である。国際問題担当フリーマン・スポグリオ研究所の上級研究員であり、ウォルター・H・ショレンシュタイン・アジア太平洋研究センターのスタンフォード中国プログラムを統括し、新設された北京大学スタンフォードセンターの所長でもある。