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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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Toward understanding resources, competencies, and capabilities: business model generation approach

Mike Franz Wahl, +1 more
- 30 Dec 2013 - 
TL;DR: The main implication of the current research is the understanding that resources are always means, competencies powers, and capabilities abilities as mentioned in this paper. But the problem of not understanding what is really meant by resources and capabilities still arises.

Farmer organisations for market access: briefing paper

M. Stockbridge, +2 more
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Intergenerational Mobility and Equality of Opportunity

Florencia Torche
- 01 Dec 2015 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the different measures of mobility used by sociologists and economists, as well as main empirical findings about mobility, and then move to topics that push mobility analysis beyond its bivariate focus, such as the association between intergenerational mobility and economic inequality, the mechanisms for mobility and the validity of mobility as a measure of inequality of opportunity.
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Financialisation and the Malaysian Political Economy

Lena Rethel
- 01 Dec 2010 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that taking a short-term look at Malaysia's response to the financial crisis of 1997-1998 does not adequately assess the socioeconomic transformation that was propagated by the crisis.
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Political aspects of innovation

Jerry Courvisanos
- 01 Sep 2009 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of public innovation policy in general and its policy implications are examined. But the authors focus on the political aspects that enhance, but also undermine, the positive transformational power of the public innovation policies.