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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 Cross-National Gender Differences

David Soskice
- 01 Jul 2005 - 
TL;DR: Estevez-Abe et al. as mentioned in this paper argued that the patterns of business and individual investments in skills implied by VoC could explain complementarities between welfare state regimes and varieties of capitalism.
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Growing exports by signaling product quality: Trade competition and the cross‐national diffusion of ISO 9000 quality standards

Xun Cao, +1 more
- 01 Dec 2011 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how trade competition motivates firms to signal quality by joining ISO 9000, the most widely adopted voluntary quality certification program in the world, and find that trade competition offers a stronger motivation for ISO 9000 adoption in non-OECD countries in relation to developed countries.
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Generational Inequalities and Welfare Regimes

Louis Chauvel, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2014 - 
TL;DR: This article used a new age period cohort model to show that among cohorts born between 1935 and 1975, cohorts born around 1950 are significantly above the income trend in most countries, but such inequalities between generations are much stronger in conservative, continental European welfare states, compared to social democratic and liberal welfare states.
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Social Exclusion: Comparative Analysis of Europe and Middle East Youth

Hilary Silver, +1 more
- 01 Sep 2007 - 
TL;DR: The theoretical orientation of social exclusion can be distinguished from the previous two approaches in that it considers trajectories of group relations as well as relations between individuals, and examines not only those excluded, but also the excluding institutions and individuals that benefit from the process.
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Revisiting the relationship between corporate social responsibility and national culture: A quantitative assessment

George Halkos, +1 more
- 03 Apr 2017 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) at the macro-level and well-established dimensions of national culture offered by Hofstede's framework.