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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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Organizations As Polities: An Open Systems Perspective

Klaus Weber, +1 more
- 13 Jan 2017 - 
TL;DR: Open polities research combines an open systems conception of organizations as intimately linked to their exter... as discussed by the authors review recent research that employs an open polities perspective on organizations, and present a survey of open polity perspectives on organizations.
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Corporate Governance Theories: From Micro Theories to National Systems Theories *

Gérard Charreaux
- 01 Jan 2004 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a survey of the different corporate governance theories is presented, contrasting the disciplinary view of corporate governance to the knowledge-based view, and highlighting the limits of the financial view.
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Modernity and diversity: reflections on the controversy between modernization theory and multiple modernists

Volker H. Schmidt
- 01 Dec 2010 - 
TL;DR: This paper revisited modernization theory's convergence claim, which has been strongly criticized by multiple modernists, who maintain that emerging realities have not borne out its underlying premises, and they found that none of the observations cited by leading modernists are able to challenge modernization theory, which can easily accommodate the kinds of difference invoked by its critics.
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Tobacco Control Policy Instruments in a Shrinking World: How Much Policy Learning?

Donley T. Studlar
- 01 Apr 2006 - 
TL;DR: Lehman et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzes tobacco control instruments, policy learning, and political processes in advanced industrial democracies, concluding that despite scientific information, epistemic communities, and government reports, tobacco control legislation only “took off” in the 1980s and subsequently has accelerated.
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The Diversity of Wage Regimes: Why the Eurozone Is Too Heterogeneous for the Euro

Martin Höpner, +1 more
- 01 Feb 2018 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze data from 1999 to 2008 for 12 euro members and estimate increases of nominal unit labor costs both in the overall economy and in manufacturing as dependent variables, and add a political-institutional argument to the debate and argue that the designs of the wage regimes had an independent impact.