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Опубликовано на портале: 24-11-2008
Gregory JacksonРед.: Masahiko Aoki, Hideaki Miyajima
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 0199284512, 416 с.
This book uses comparative institutional analysis to explain differences in national
economic performance. Countries have their own rules for corporate governance and
they have different market arrangements; and these differences in rules and organization
affect the way firms behave. Countries also tend to develop conventions of organizational
architechture of firms, whether their hierarchies are functional, horizontal, or
decentralized. This affects the way in which they process information, and information
management is increasingly seen as being of crucial importance to a firm's performance.
Aoki accords more importance to these factors than to the factors conventionally
used in applying a neoclassical model of economic efficiency. He applies game theory,
contract theory, and information theory. By describing the rules and norms in Japan,
the USA, and the transitional economies, Aoki shows how firms can achieve competitive
advantage in international markets if these conventions and rules are well suited
to the industrial sector in which the firms operate. He is particularly concerned
with how Japan, with its main bank and lifelong employment systems, as well as information-sharing
firm organizational structure, might reform its institutions to maintain competitive
advantage in the world economy.



Опубликовано на портале: 12-11-2007
Sanford M. Jacoby
Изд-во: Princeton University Press, 1998, 360 с.
Winner of the 1998 Taft Labor History Award of the School of Industrial and Labor
Relations. One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Books of 1998. In light of recent
trends of corporate downsizing and debates over corporate responsibility, Sanford
Jacoby offers a timely, comprehensive history of twentieth-century welfare capitalism,
that is, the history of nonunion corporations that looked after the economic security
of employees. Building on three fascinating case studies of "modern manors" (Eastman
Kodak, Sears, and TRW), Jacoby argues that welfare capitalism did not expire during
the Depression, as traditionally thought. Rather it adapted to the challenges of
the 1930s and became a powerful, though overlooked, factor in the history of the
welfare state, the labor movement, and the corporation. "Fringe" benefits, new forms
of employee participation, and sophisticated anti-union policies are just some of
the outgrowths of welfare capitalism that provided a model for contemporary employers
seeking to create productive nonunion workplaces.
Although employer paternalism has faltered in recent years, many Americans still
look to corporations, rather than to unions or government, to meet their needs. Jacoby
explains why there remains widespread support for the notion that corporations should
be the keystone of economic security in American society and offers a perspective
on recent business trends. Based on extensive research, Modern Manors greatly advances
the study of corporate and union power in the twentieth century.



Опубликовано на портале: 12-11-2007
Sanford M. Jacoby
Изд-во: Princeton University Press, 2007, 236 с.
Is there one best way to run the modern business corporation? What is the appropriate
balance between shareholders, executives, and employees? These questions are being
vigorously debated as layoffs, scandals, and restructurings rattle companies around
the world. The common assumption is that globalization is merging the varieties of
corporate capitalism. Yet, as this book shows, corporations in Japan and the United
States are responding differently to the pressures unleashed by globalization. In
The Embedded Corporation, Sanford Jacoby traces this diversity to national differences
in economic history and social norms, and, paradoxically, to global competition itself.
The book's vantage point for exploring the varieties of capitalism is the human resource
departments of large corporations, where changes in markets and technology turn into
corporate labor policies affecting millions of workers. Despite some cross-fertilization,
Japanese and American corporations maintain distinctive approaches to human resource
management, which has important consequences for how firms compete, for corporate
governance, and even for the level of inequality in Japan and the United States.
The Embedded Corporation is a major contribution to our understanding of comparative
management and the relationship between business, society, and the global economy.
Sanford M. Jacoby is the Howard Noble Professor of Management, Public Policy, and
History at the University of California, Los Angeles.



Опубликовано на портале: 22-01-2007
Bob Jessop
Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002, 344 с.
In this important new book, Bob Jessop offers a radical new interpretation of capitalist states and their likely future development. He focuses on the changing forms, functions, scales and effectiveness of economic and social policy that have emerged since the 1950s in advanced western capitalist states.The postwar Keynesian welfare national state that developed in most advanced capitalist societies has long been regarded as being in crisis. Mounting tensions have been generated by technological change, globalization, and economic and political crises, and new social and political movements have also had a destabilizing impact. Jessop examines these factors in relation to the rise, consolidation and crisis of Atlantic Fordism and asks whether a new type of capitalist state that is currently emerging offers a solution. He notes that there are several difficulties still to be overcome before the new type of state is consolidated; in particular, he is critical of its neoliberal form and considers its main alternatives.This book will have broad cross-disciplinary appeal. It will be read by sociologists, political scientists, institutional economists, geographers and students of social policy.



Опубликовано на портале: 21-12-2006
Ailish Johnson
New-York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, cерия "St Antony's Series", 288 с.
Ailish Johnson examines national welfare state regimes of EU Member States and the
features of the European Union and the International Labour Organization that encourage
cooperation and assure outcomes of supranational cooperation higher than theories
of inter-state bargaining or social dumping would predict. By tracing the development
of EU and global social policy from the 1950s to today, she identifies policy leaders,
resisters and passive states. She concludes with an analysis of the forms and outputs
of supranational social policy and suggests limits of social policy in an enlarged
European Union.


