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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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Institutional Change in Contemporary Capitalism: Coordinated Financial Systems since 1990

Pepper D. Culpepper
- 20 Oct 2005 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the cases of the three large European economies with concentrated share ownership and show that institutional change took place in France but not in Germany or Italy, despite the fact that Germany and Italy experienced significant regulatory change in the area of corporate governance while France did not.
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Institutions and diversification: Related versus unrelated diversification in a varieties of capitalism framework

Ron Boschma, +2 more
- 01 Dec 2015 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose that institutions have an impact on the direction of the diversification process, in particular on whether countries gain a comparative advantage in new sectors that are close or far from what is already part of their existing industrial structure.
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‘Green’ Human Resource Benefits: Do they Matter as Determinants of Environmental Management System Implementation?

Marcus Wagner
- 01 May 2013 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed whether benefits arising for human resource management from environmental management activities drive environmental management system implementation and found that increasing levels of environmental management systems implementation result from higher economic benefits in the human resource domain.
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New Challenges for Developing Country Suppliers in Global Clothing Chains: A Comparative European Perspective

Florence Palpacuer, +2 more
- 01 Mar 2005 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of clothing import patterns and sourcing practices of major clothing retailers in the United Kingdom, France, and Scandinavia was conducted to uncover salient differences between global value chains (GVCs) serving European clothing markets.
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Models in evolutionary economics and environmental policy: Towards an evolutionary environmental economics

Albert Faber, +1 more
- 01 May 2009 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, evolutionary economic models have been used in relation to environmental policy, focusing on the double externality problem, technological transitions and consumer demand, and the opportunities for making policy-making endogenous to environmental innovation.