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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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The Social Structure of the World Polity

Jason Beckfield
- 20 Dec 2010 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the social structure of the world polity, using network analysis of the complete population of intergovernmental organizations as it has evolved since 1820, revealing growing fragmentation, driven by exclusive rather than universalist intergovernmental organisations.
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Production Regimes and the Quality of Employment in Europe

Duncan Gallie
- 18 Jul 2007 - 
TL;DR: This article examined the evidence for Denmark, Finland, Germany, Sweden, and the UK on the quality of work between the two principal regime types that are held to characterize European societies, and pointed out the distinctiveness of the Scandinavian countries and hence to the importance of factors that lie outside the explanatory framework of the thesis.
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Untangling African indigenous management: Multiple influences on the success of SMEs in Kenya

Terence Jackson, +2 more
- 01 Oct 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the nature of indigenous management in relation to the success of SMEs in sub-Saharan Africa, taking Kenya and six SMEs under the management of Kenyan Africans, Kenyan Asians and Kenyan British as examples.
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Skills and inequality: partisan politics and the political economy of education reforms in Western welfare states

Marius R. Busemeyer, +1 more
TL;DR: Skills and Inequality as discussed by the authors studies the political economy of education and training reforms from the perspective of comparative welfare state research, highlighting the striking similarities between established worlds of welfare capitalism and educational regimes.
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Association of Returning to Work With Better Health in Working-Aged Adults: A Systematic Review

Sergio Rueda, +7 more
- 08 Feb 2012 - 
TL;DR: Beneficial health effects of returning to work have been documented in a variety of populations, times, and settings, suggesting that return-to-work programs may improve not only financial situations but also health.