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Опубликовано на портале: 22-12-2006
Ред.: Wolfgang Streeck, Kathleen Thelen
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 320 с.
Debates surrounding institutional change have become increasingly central to Political
Science, Management Studies, and Sociology, opposing the role of globalization in
bringing about a convergence of national economies and institutions on one model
to theories about 'Varieties of Capitalism'.
This book brings together a distinguished set of contributors from a variety of
disciplines to examine current theories of institutional change. The chapters highlight
the limitations of these theories, finding them lacking in the analytic tools necessary
to identify the changes occurring at a national level, and therefore tend to explain
many changes and innovation as simply another version of previous situations.
Instead a model emerges of contemporary political economies developing in incremental
but cumulatively transformative processes. The contributors show that a wide, but
not infinite, variety of models of institutional change exist which can meaningfully
distinguished and analytically compared. They offer an empirically grounded typology
of modes of institutional change that offer important insights on mechanisms of social
and political stability, and evolution generally.
Beyond Continuity provides a more complex and fundamental understanding of institutional
change, and will be important reading for academics, researchers, and advanced students
of Political Science, Management Studies, Sociology, and Economics.



Опубликовано на портале: 30-01-2007
Chris Pierson
Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006, 288 с.
Over the past decade, Beyond the Welfare State? has become established as the key
text on the emergence and development of welfare states. It offers a comprehensive
and remarkably well-informed introduction to the ever more intense debates that surround
the history and, still more importantly, the future of welfare in advanced industrialised
states. Comprehensively revised and re-written, this third edition of the book embraces
all of the most important theoretical and empirical developments in welfare state
studies of recent years. Working within an explicitly comparative framework, the
book draws on a wealth of international evidence to survey what are now the most
pressing issues surrounding the future of welfare: among them, globalisation, demographic
change, declining fertility, postindustrialism and immigration. It draws extensively
on the explosion of work on welfare states that has emerged within the North American
political science community over the past ten years as well as giving detailed attention
to developments with the UK, continental and northern Europe and beyond. Beyond the
Welfare State? remains the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the complex
of issues that surround welfare reform. It is required reading for anyone who wants
to come to terms with what is really at stake in arguments about the future of welfare.


Опубликовано на портале: 13-11-2007
Ред.: Bob Hancke, Martin Rhodes, Mark Thatcher
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 450 с.
Since the early 1990s, Europe's economies have been facing several new challenges:
the 1992 single market programme, the collapse of the Berlin wall and eastward enlargement,
and monetary unification. Building on the influential Varieties of Capitalism (VoC)
perspective, first elaborated in detail in the book Varieties of Capitalism (OUP,
2001), this book critically analyzes these developments in the European political
economy and their effects on the continental European economies. Leading political
economists from Europe and the US debate how VoC can help understand the political-economic
challenges that Europe is facing today and how understanding these new challenges
can in turn enrich and enhance the VoC perspective. Thematically, the contributions
to this volume are organised in four sections:
* how the macro-economics of EMU influenced different European models of capitalism,
* how the Single Market programme was received in the different institutional regimes in European capitalism,
* how welfare and labour market reforms are debated and implemented,
* how European capitalism travelled east after 1989.
Preceding this is a spirited defence of the VoC approach by Peter Hall, and an introduction from the volume editors, considering the approach, and proposing extensions and amendments. This book demonstrates that the VoC approach remains, as the editors put it in their introduction, a rich seam to mine, capable of accommodating new developments, and theoretically flexible enough to branch out into new arguments.
* how the macro-economics of EMU influenced different European models of capitalism,
* how the Single Market programme was received in the different institutional regimes in European capitalism,
* how welfare and labour market reforms are debated and implemented,
* how European capitalism travelled east after 1989.
Preceding this is a spirited defence of the VoC approach by Peter Hall, and an introduction from the volume editors, considering the approach, and proposing extensions and amendments. This book demonstrates that the VoC approach remains, as the editors put it in their introduction, a rich seam to mine, capable of accommodating new developments, and theoretically flexible enough to branch out into new arguments.



British Factory, Japanese Factory: The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial
Relations [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 26-11-2007
Ronald Philip Dore
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, 467 с.
Second edition with a new afterword (First published in 1973).


Опубликовано на портале: 22-12-2006
Ред.: Sea-Jin Chang
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 288 с.
The 1997 Asian Crisis principally affected Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Korea,
as well as other East Asian countries heavily dependent on intra-regional trade.
Banks and other financial institutions quickly become insolvent, and heavily indebted
industrial firms went bankrupt. Many of these firms were affiliated with the business
groups of this region, yet most groups did not immediately collapse, indeed they
proved remarkably robust, some surviving and even prospering.
This book examines these East Asian business groups and their subsequent restructuring
following the Asian Crisis. East Asian nations embarked on very different trajectories
to this common external shock. The Asian Crisis affected the inter-relationships
among the socio-cultural environment, the state, and the market of each country quite
differently and had distinct effects on the operations of these countries' business
groups. This slow yet divergent pattern of development provides evidence against
theories of rapid global convergence.
Yet East Asian business groups face an uncertain future. Foreign investors' influence
has increased substantially since the crisis, as East Asian governments had to accommodate
their demands to keep attracting foreign capital. Governments supervise banks more
closely and have loosened restrictions on mergers and hostile takeovers, further
strengthening the discipline of the market. Various entry barriers that had inhibited
foreign multinationals from competing in national markets were lifted, exposing business
groups to intensified foreign competition. Under these new conditions, business groups
in East Asia should reconfigure their business structures and adjust their corporate
governance systems to regain momentum for further growth.
Business groups will continue to be important vehicles for the sustained future growth
of this region, and this book presents a substantial amount of new data on this,
which will be of interest to academics, researchers, and advanced students of East
Asian business, and business practitioners working within the region.


Опубликовано на портале: 20-12-2007
Richard Whitley
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 375 с.
Twenty-first century capitalism has been marked by an increasing international economic independence, and considerable differences between dominant economic systems of coordination and control. In this context, national competition and coordination within industries has increased, but the governance of leading firms, and the kinds of competences they develop, remain quite diverse. This book shows how different kinds of firms become established and develop different capabilities in different societies, and as a result are effective in particular kinds of industries and markets.
By integrating institutionalist approaches to organizations with the capabilities theory of the firm, Richard Whitley suggests how we can understand this combination of diversity and integration by developing the comparative business systems framework in three major ways. First, by identifying the particular circumstances in which distinctive business systems and innovation systems become nationally established and reproduced, as well as how changing endogenous and exogenous pressures have affected the major kinds of business systems that developed in many OECD states during the postwar period. Second, by showing how variations in authority sharing with employees and business partners and in the provision of organizational careers lead institutional regimes to affect the nature of organizational capabilities that dominant firms develop and enable them to deal with different kinds of risks and opportunities in particular technologies and markets. Third, by identifying the circumstances in which multinational firms are likely to develop distinctive transnational organizational capabilities through such authority sharing and careers, and so become different kinds of companies from their more domestically focused competitors. In many, if not most, cases of cross national managerial coordination, these conditions rarely exist, and so the extent to which multinational firms do indeed constitute distinct organizational forms and strategic actors is much less than is sometimes claimed.


Опубликовано на портале: 21-12-2007
Richard Whitley
Изд-во: Sage Publications Ltd, 1994, 288 с.
As trends toward the internationalization and globalization of business intensify,
it becomes increasingly apparent that different cultures manifest very different--yet
no less effective--forms of business organization. And while much has been written
about the Japanese approach to business, far less attention has been paid to other
East Asian business systems. In this fascinating and informative book, Whitley looks
at business in its social context in South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong as well as Japan.
He explores similarities and differences organizations, markets and societies. The
author also compares East Asian business systems with dominant Western practices
and considers the international transferability of different business "recipes."
Clearly demonstrating how different business practices can only be fully understood
with reference to the societies from which they come, this volume will be essential
reading for all students and managers concerned with international business, the
comparative analysis of organizations, and the social foundations of business enterprise.


