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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 Logics or Agency Costs: The Influence of Corporate Governance Models on Business Group Restructuring in Emerging Economies

Chi-Nien Chung, +1 more
- 01 Oct 2008 - 
TL;DR: It is found that, consistent with both mechanisms, family-controlled business groups are less likely to divest of unrelated businesses, but the institutional logics mechanism can better explain the relative lack of unrelated acquisition in family- controlled groups and the difference in divestiture between groups with more shareholder-based groups.
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The "Production" of Child Care: How Labor Markets Shape Social Policy and Vice Versa

Kimberly J. Morgan
- 20 Jun 2005 - 
TL;DR: The authors examined child care policies in three countries-France, Sweden, and the United States-to explore the links between labor markets and social policy and to probe the applicability of the "varieties of capitalism" literature to the human services.
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Labour Regulation, Corporate Governance and Legal Origin: A Case of Institutional Complementarity?

Simon Deakin, +1 more
- 01 Sep 2005 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the role of complementarities between legal and economic institutions, and in particular the part played by the distinctive "legal cultures" of the common law and civil law in setting national systems on separate pathways to economic development.
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Workforce Skills and Innovation: An Overview of Major Themes in the Literature

Phillip Toner
- 07 Jan 2011 - 
TL;DR: The authors provides an account of the main approaches, debates and evidence in the literature on the role of workforce skills in the innovation process in developed economies, drawing on multiple sources including the innovation studies discipline, neoclassical Human Capital theory, institutionalist labour market studies and the work organisation discipline.
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Decommodification and activation in social democratic policy: resolving the paradox

Jingjing Huo, +2 more
- 01 Feb 2008 - 
TL;DR: In Esping-Andersen's influential work decommodification appears as the central characteristic of the welfare state, and efforts to decommodify labour are posited to be the main goal of social democ...