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Varieties of capitalism: the institutional foundations of comparative advantage

Peter A. Hall, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2001 - 
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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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'Varieties of Capitalism' and the Greek case: explaining the constraints on domestic reform?

Kevin Featherstone
- 01 Feb 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify a Greek model/regime by looking into the literatures on neo-corporatism, varieties of capitalism and welfare regimes to evaluate and explain the fate of domestic reform initiatives.
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Putting Strategic Human Resource Management in Context: A Contextualized Model of High Commitment Work Systems and Its Implications in China

Sunghoon Kim, +1 more
- 01 Mar 2011 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a contextualized model of HRM effectiveness is proposed to understand firm performance relations in China where business environments are currently under transformation on both trust and regulations, and employees are more inclined to view the high commitment work system as an expression of the employer's genuine concern for employees.
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Comparative-Historical Analysis in Contemporary Political Science

Kathleen Thelen, +2 more
TL;DR: In a discipline in which a succession of different movements has advocated new approaches promising more powerful theory or new methodologies for more rigorously testing theory, or both, comparative-historical analysis (CHA) has stood the test of time as mentioned in this paper.
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School-to-Work Linkages in the United States, Germany, and France

Thomas A. DiPrete, +3 more
- 30 May 2017 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a new research agenda is proposed for assessing the strength of linkages between educational credentials, including fields of study, and occupational positions, and the authors argue that a theoretically fruitful conception of linkage strength requires a focus on granular structure and macroinstitutional characteristics of pathways between education and the labor market.
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The Eurozone and Political Economic Institutions

Torben Iversen, +2 more
- 11 May 2016 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors set out a recently developed comparative political economy literature on the Eurozone, which has a basis in both varieties of capitalism and modern macroeconomics, and compared the export-oriented, northern European, skill-intensive, coordinated market economies with coordinated wage-bargaining, on the one hand, with the southern European, demand-driven economies with strong public sector unions.