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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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Modes of organizing biomedical innovation in the UK and US and the role of integrative and relational capabilities

Jacky Swan, +7 more
- 01 May 2007 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, qualitative analysis of biomedical innovation in the UK and US to identify mechanisms influencing innovation at the project level through which these macro level capabilities may have effects, and a propositional framework is developed that helps explain the likely impact of such capabilities for characteristically different kinds of innovation projects at the micro level.
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Women on corporate boards around the world: Triggers and barriers

Amon Chizema, +2 more
- 01 Dec 2015 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that board directorship is an agentic role and more suitable for men and employ a robust statistical technique in two-stage least squares (2SLS) to find that the representation of women in other key national institutions, such as in politics, positively affects the appointment of female directors on boards.
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Cluster‐Based Technology Policy—The German Experience

Dirk Dohse
- 05 Feb 2007 - 
TL;DR: The German Federal Government has undertaken a series of particularly interesting policy experiments in the field of technology policy in recent years, a major policy innovation being the explicit recognition of regional clustering aspects in federal support programmes.
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Throwing Out the Ballast: Growth Models and the Liberalization of German Industrial Relations

Lucio Baccaro, +1 more
- 24 Dec 2016 - 
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Varieties of Capitalism and Capitalism « tout court »

Dorothee Bohle, +1 more
- 01 Dec 2009 - 
TL;DR: This article reviewed the "Varieties of capitalism" approach and its large impact on the field of comparative political economy and argued that VoC's firm-centeredness, parsimony, and reliance on conceptual tools borrowed from economics fit better than other approaches to a Zeitgeist formed in the context of the demise of Western capitalism's alternatives, and the globalization-induced shift of societies' center of gravity away from politics towards firms and markets.