Public vs. private: governance in East Asia n the age of globalisation / Kurt W. Radtke -- Conglomerates in Indonesia: the road to power and beyond / J. Thomas Lindblad -- The rise of Taiwanese family-owned business groups in the telecommunications industry / Momoko Kawakami -- Conglomerates in Iran: the political economy of Islamic Foundations / Eva Rakel -- Latin American conglomerates in the neoliberal era: the politics of economic concentration in Chile and Mexico / Alex E. Fernández Jilberto and Barbara Hogenboom -- Economic groups and the rise and collapse of neoliberalism in Argentina / Miguel Teubal -- Economic flexibilisation and denationalisation in Brazil / Roberto Rocco -- Transitionals, grupos, and business associations in the privatisation of Central America's telecommunications / Benedicte Bull -- The Viagra effect: pharmaceutical giants and the Puerto Rican economy / Antonio Carmona Báez -- The neoliberalising African state and private capital accumulation: the case of Cameroon / Piet Konings -- The resilience of comprador capitalism: "new" economic groups in Southern Africa / Stefan Andreasson -- African regional groupings and emerging Chinese conglomerates / Kwame Nimako -- The risky business of cocoa in Ghana: local entrepreneurs in a buyer-driven chain / Anna Laven -- The Kremlin and the oligarchs: clashing economic interests in Russia / André Mommen with Vasiliy Valuev and Serghei Golunov -- The rise of conglomerates in Ukraine: the Donetsk case / Hans van Zon -- The impact of multinational investment in Central and Eastern Europe / Wioletta Niemiec and Mariusz Niemiec.