Showing papers on "Coordinated market economy published in 2005"

Globalisation and national varieties of capitalism: The contested viability of the ‘german model’

Abstract: It is often argued that globalisation is eroding differences between national varieties of capitalism and enforcing convergence. This study takes up the debate – triggered by declining economic performance – about the viability of the ‘German model’ of a coordinated market economy, examining the arguments about its alleged seminal transformation over the last decade. It goes on to identify a number of flaws in the literature and questions whether the case for fundamental change in Germany has really been made in a credible and convincing way. In addition, it points to significant elements of continuity in areas such as industrial relations and emphasises the importance of political decisions in determining the fate of national economic models.

The Dynamics of German Industry: Germany's Path toward the New Economy and the American Challenge

Abstract: List of Figures and Tables Introduction Chapter 1. A living Past Beyond "The End of History" The Splendor and Misery of Rhine Capitalism Chapter 2. The German Empire - Hothouse of Postindustrial Institutions From Liberalism to the Coordinated Production Regime Patterns of Socialization Compared: The Economies of Germany and Great Britain - Germany-The First Postliberal Nation - From Autonomy to Self-Governance-The German Path to Industrial Development - Market and State - No Antagonism Interest Intermediation between Societal and State Corporatism - The Century of Corporatism - The Failure of State Corporatism in the German Empire - Cartels-Market Regulation German Style - Societal Corporatism in the Weimar Republic Chapter 3. The German Production Regime The Production Regime of the Coordinated Market Economy - Institutional Prerequisites of Diversified Quality Production - Coordinated Market Economy The American Challenge - The Fordist Alternative - Fordist Strategic Approaches in the German Automotive Industry between the World Wars - Fordism during the War: The Krupp Case - Breakthrough to Mass Consumption - "West German Fordism": The Volkswagen Case - The End of Mass Production Codetermination: The German Response to the Agency Problem Social Market Economy: Production-Related Design of the Organization and Rules of the Economy Chapter 4. The German Road to the Twenty-first Century Many Roads Lead to Rome Anachronisms of the "Economic Miracle" Strengths and Weaknesses of the German Production Regime Postscript Select Bibliography Index

Employers and the Politics of Skill Formation in a Coordinated Market Economy: Collective Action and Class Conflict in Norway

Abstract: This article uses a case study of vocational training in Norway to explore the conditions under which employers will cooperate to increase the skill level of their workforce. It generates two sets of insights into the political economy of training in coordinated market economies. First, by demonstrating that cooperation among employers was a recent achievement that required the creation of specific, targeted mechanisms, it suggests that a cooperative outcome is difficult to attain, even amid the generally hospitable institutional environment characteristic of these economies. Second, it demonstrates that the employer collective action problem with respect to the initial training of apprentices differs from that posed by the additional raining of experienced workers. This means that even within a single economy, there are several varieties of training politics, each characterized by different patterns of cooperation and conflict; this further complicates the task of creating a coordinated training regime.