His H-index is 40, with about 100 papers with more than ten citations. One of his most cited articles is the paper ‘Korea’s Technological Catch-up’ published in Research Policy, with 1,100 citations (Google Scholar). He obtained his PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the winner of the 2014 Schumpeter Prize for his monograph Schumpeterian Analysis of Economic Catch-up (Cambridge University Press, 2013), as well as the 2019 Kapp Prize from the EAEPE for his article on national innovation systems. He served as president of the International Schumpeter Society (2016‒18), a member of the Committee for Development Policy of UN (2014‒18), and a council member of the World Economic Forum (2016‒19). He is an editor of Research Policy and an associate editor of Industrial and Corporate Change. Keun Lee is a professor of economics at the Seoul National University, fellow of the CIFAR programme on Innovation, Equity and Prosperity, and founding director of the Center for Economic Catch-up. Sixteen individual country articles deal with business groups from Asia to Africa, the Middle East to Latin America, while overarching articles consider the historical and theoretical context of business groups. Business groups are often criticized as premodern forms of economic organization, and occasionally as symptomatic of corrupt crony capitalism, but many have shown remarkable resilience, navigating and adjusting to economic and political turbulence, international competition, and technological change. Earlier variants can also be found in the trading companies, often set up in Britain, which operated in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Business groupslarge, diversified, often family-controlled organizations with pyramidal ownership structure, such as the Japanese zaibatsu, the Korean chaebol and the grupos econmicos in Latin Americahave played a significant role in national economic growth, especially in emerging economies. The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups provides a comprehensive analysis of business groups around the world.
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