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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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Theoretical foundations of emerging economy business research

Klaus E. Meyer, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2016 - 
TL;DR: Theoretically into Central and Eastern Europe: Transactions, Resources, and Institutions as mentioned in this paper is a survey of the contributions of research in CEE to theoretical debates in business research, highlighting the need to develop a better understanding of the boundary conditions of scholarly theories of knowledge.
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Winner-Take-All Politics: Public Policy, Political Organization, and the Precipitous Rise of Top Incomes in the United States:

Jacob S. Hacker, +1 more
- 24 May 2010 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a small but growing body of political science research on rising inequality has challenged standard economic accounts that emphasize apolitical processes of economic change, and pointed out the profound role of government policy in creating this winner-take-all pattern.
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Partisan politics, the welfare state, and three worlds of human capital formation

Torben Iversen, +1 more
- 01 Apr 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a synthesis of power resources theory and welfare production regime theory is proposed to explain differences in human capital formation across advanced democracies, emphasizing the mutuallness of human capital.
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The Sociology of Markets

Neil Fligstein, +1 more
- 18 Jul 2007 - 
TL;DR: The authors show that some of the disagreement between theory camps is due to differences in conceptual language, and other disagreements stem from the fact that theory camps ignore the concepts in other theory camps, thereby making their theories less complete.
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Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility: a comparative analysis of the UK and the US*

Ruth V. Aguilera, +3 more
- 01 May 2006 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that key differences between the UK and the US in the importance ascribed to a company's social responsibilities reflect differences in the corporate governance arrangements in these two countries, and draw on a model of instrumental, relational and moral motives to explore why institutional investors in the UK are becoming concerned with firms' social and environmental actions.