Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: State, Market and Organizational Form -- Part One Political Processes, Economic Interests and Organizational Re-structuring in Societal Transformation -- Enterprise Change and the Management of Labour in a Transforming Society: The Case of Hungary -- The Machineries of Institutional Transformation: The Case of Czech Agriculture -- Enterprise Reform and the Role of the State: The Case of the Capital Iron and Steel Works, Beijing -- Monopolized, Privatized, Diversified, and Incorporated: An Institutional Analysis of the Evolution of the Dutch Postbank (1945-1994) -- The Double-dealing of Rhetoric - An Anthropological Perspective on the Dynamics of Organizing in the Swedish Public Sector -- Part Two Economic Challenges, Societal Resources, and Organizational Forms -- Vertical Integration into Electronics: Transaction Costs and Organization Domain -- Societal Strategic Advantage: Institutional Structure and Path Dependence in the Automotive and Electronics Industries of East Asia -- Japanese Industrial Groups and Cross-Shareholding: Is Agency Theory Really Relevant to the Communal Form? -- Between Democracy and Dictatorship: The Market Queen Institution of Ghanian Daily Markets -- Putting Nationalism back into National Business Systems: The Ideological and Institutional Context of Global Competition -- Notes on Contributors