Q: Asian Capitalisms

Jacobs University Bremen

Tobias ten Brink

Tobias ten Brink is Professor of Chinese Economy and Society and Director of the China Global Center at Jacobs University Bremen. His research focuses on China and large emerging countries.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Nana de Graaff

Nana de Graaff is Associate Professor in International Relations at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her main research interests are within International Relations, International Political Economy and Elite Studies (political sociology). Her particular research fields are Chinese political and economic elites, the globalization of Chinese firms and Chinese engagements with Europe; American political and economic elites and US foreign policy, US-China relations, and the politics and political economy of oil. She publishes in leading journals in International Relations, International Political Economy, and Sociology (e.g. Review of International Political Economy, European Journal of International Relations, International Affairs, Global Networks) and with publishers like Routledge and Cambridge University Press.

Nana De Graaff is currently Chair of the EU COST Action 18215 China in Europe Research Network (CHERN), a Europe-wide network aimed at pooling, exchanging, disseminating and generating research on Chinese socio-economic engagements with Europe. She is also co-Principal Investigator in an ESRC (UK) funded project Fraying Ties? Networks, Territory and Transformation in the UK oil sector, an interdisciplinary research project led by Prof. Gavin Bridge (Durham University) in collaboration with London School of Economic (LSE) and Platform. She is co-investigator in the Corporate Mapping Project, a SSHRC funded research-project aimed at systematically mapping the structure and influence of the fossil fuel industry in Canada led by Prof. William Carroll (University of Victoria). De Graaff is an advisory board member for International Affairs and The International Spectator.

Frankfurt Institute of Social Research / East-West Center

Boy Lüthje

Boy Lüthje is Senior Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research and a visiting scholar at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. His research focuses on the political economy of global production networks, innovation, and work. His interest in China and Southeast Asia developed in the course of his research on global production and work in the IT industry during the recent decade. He recently completed an extensive research project on regimes of production and industrial relations in China’s manufacturing industries. Together with Tobias ten Brink and Christopher McNally (East-West Center) he is conducting a major research project on China’s new capitalism and its perspectives of economic and social re-balancing.

ESSCA School of Management

Wei Zhao

Wei Zhao is Associate Professor of International Management at ESSCA School of Management (France) and Special Research Fellow at Institute for Reform & Development of Pearl River Delta (IPRD), a think-tank jointly established by China’s Guangdong Provincial Government and Sun Yat-sen University. Specialized in research and consulting on industrial upgrading and innovation policy in South China, he is author of the Lead Report of 2017 Guangdong Innovation-driven Development Blue-cover Book (in Chinese), and the book Remade in Guangdong: How China’s World Factory Will Become Innovative (World Scientific, 2018).

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Network Q promotes theory and research on the diversity of socio-economic systems and capitalist development in Asia. New approaches to the study of Asia are needed to better understand how different systems and their socio-economic institutions such as labour markets, capital markets or product markets and outcomes (e.g. comparative advantages, innovation, cooperation) are related. The network promotes studies that examine these relationships as well as how processes of institutional change affect them. The network contributes to an interdisciplinary perspective on trajectories of development within Asia, and their consequences for socio-economic development.

We welcome a wide range of theoretical perspectives (e.g. political economy, economic sociology, management studies, industrial relations, innovation studies and innovation management, neo – institutionalism, and comparative institutional analysis). Topics of particular interest are: state and capitalism; systems of innovation; production networks and value chains; science, innovation, and technology policies; welfare states; innovation and specialization; entrepreneurship; knowledge-based economies; processes and politics of institutional change; varieties of capitalism, internationalization and regional integration; and creation, persistence and plasticity of technological trajectories.