- Covers models such as 'varieties of capitalism',
'national business systems', and 'social systems of production'
- Chapters by leading international scholars
- Covers issues such as corporate governance, employment,
and financial systems
- Chapters on theory and methodology
It is increasingly accepted that 'institutions matter' for economic organization and
outcomes. The last decade has seen significant expansion in research examining how
institutional contexts affect the nature and behaviour of firms, the operation of markets,
and economic outcomes. Yet 'institutions' conceal a multitude of issues and perspectives.
Much of this research has been comparative, and followed different models such as
'varieties of capitalism', 'national business systems', and 'social systems of
production'.
This Handbook explores these issues, perspectives, and models, with the
leading scholars in the area contributing chapters to provide a central reference point
for academics, scholars, and students.
Table of Contents
Glenn Morgan, John L. Campbell, Colin Crouch, Ove Kaj Pedersen, and Richard Whitley:
Introduction
Part I: Theories and Methods in Comparative Institutional Analysis
1: Marie-Laure Djelic: Institutional Perspectives - Working towards Coherence or
Irreconcilable Diversity?
2: Kathleen Thelen: Beyond Comparative Statics: Historical Institutional Approaches to
Stability and Change In the Political Economy of Labor
3: Gregory Jackson: Actors and Institutions
4: John L. Campbell: Institutional Reproduction and Change
5: Colin Crouch: Complementarity
6: Bruce Kogut: Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Social Science Data
Part II: Institutions, States, and Markets
7: Linda Weiss: The State in the Economy: Neoliberal or Neoactivist?
8: Glenn Morgan: Money and Markets
9: Leonard Seabrooke: Transnational Institutions and International Regimes
10: Glenn Morgan and Sigrid Quack: Law as a Governing Institution
11: Richard Deeg: Institutional Change in Financial Systems
12: Steven Casper: The Comparative Institutional Analysis of Innovation: From Industrial
Policy to the Knowledge Economy
13: Richard Whitley: Changing Competition Models in Market Economies: The Effects of
Internationalization, Technological Innovations, and Academic Expansion on the Conditions
Supporting Dominant Economic Logics
14: Lane Kenworthy: Institutions, Wealth, and Inequality
Part III: The Organization of Economic Actors
15: Michel Goyer: Corporate Governance
16: Richard Whitley: The Institutional Construction of Firms
17: Jill Rubery: Institutionalizing the Employment Relationship
18: Gary Herrigel and Jonathan Zeitlin: Inter-Firm Relations in Global Manufacturing:
Disintegrated Production and Its Globalization
Part IV: Challenges for Comparative Institutional Analysis
19: Ivan Szelenyi and Katarzyna Wilk: Institutional transformation in European
Post-Communist Regimes
20: John A. Hall: State Failure
21: Ewald Engelen and Martijn Konings: Financial Capitalism Resurgent: Comparative
Institutionalism and the Challenges of Financialization
22: Ove Kaj Pedersen: Institutional Competitiveness: How Nations Came to Compete
23: Wolfgang Streeck: Institutions in History: Bringing Capitalism Back In
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