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Varieties of capitalism: the institutional foundations of comparative advantage

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In this paper, the authors highlight the role of business in national economies and show that there is more than one path to economic success, and explain national differences in social and economic policy.
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What are the most important differences among national economies? Is globalization forcing nations to converge on an Anglo-American model? What explains national differences in social and economic policy? This pathbreaking work outlines a new approach to these questions. It highlights the role of business in national economies and shows that there is more than one path to economic success.

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Systemic Vulnerability and the Origins of Developmental States: Northeast and Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective

TL;DR: In this article, a new political explanation for the origins of "developmental states" is proposed, in which expert and coherent bureaucratic agencies collaborate with organized private sectors to spur national economic transformation.
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Meta-Analytic Review of Employee Turnover as a Predictor of Firm Performance

TL;DR: This paper conducted a meta-analytic review in which they test and provide support for a portion of Hausknecht and Trevor's model of collective turnover and found that the mean corrected correlation between turnover and organizational performance is −.03.
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The three pillars of stability: legitimation, repression, and co-optation in autocratic regimes

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theoretical framework that seeks to explain the longevity of autocracies by referring to three pillars of stability: legitimation, repression, and co-optation.
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State-owned Enterprises Around the WORLD as Hybrid Organizations

TL;DR: In this article, a more nuanced view of state-owned enterprises as hybrid organizations, in which the levels of ownership and control by the state can vary, is presented, drawing on 36 cases from four industries in 23 countries.
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Measuring the immeasurable

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose an index based on a formative measurement model, reflecting the degree to which companies of certain nationalities are over- or underrepresented in major, global CSR initiatives and rankings, relative to the size of their national economies.