Firms and the Welfare State: When, Why, and How Does Social Policy Matter to Employers?

By Isabela Mares. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration

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How and why capitalisms differ (2005, methodology): “Formalisations respectively undertaken within RT (Amable et al. 2002) and VOC (Mares 2001) effectively use characteristics drawn from the external environment (be it the importance of market-based funding for firms or the nature of social protection) as data to deduce the organisational systems on…”
Asset Specificity, Institutional Complementarities and the Variety of Skill Regimes in Coordinated Market Economies (2009, background): “The thought-provoking thesis that emerges from this literature is that employers (in CMEs) support the establishment and maintenance of the welfare state out of rational economic interest (Mares, 2001, 2003; Swenson, 2002; Iversen, 2005).”
The "Production" of Child Care: How Labor Markets Shape Social Policy and Vice Versa (2005, background): “Nonetheless, VOC has other insights to offer analysts of the welfare state, particularly in its attention to the interrelationships between labor market structures and public policy (Estévez-Abe et al. 2001; Iversen and Soskice 2000; Mares 2001).”
Culture, meaning, and institutions: Executive rationale in Germany and Japan (2009, unknown): “The potential for firms to influence the shape of the institutional structure of economies is well established in the business literature and in related social sciences (e.g., Hirschman, 1970; Pfeffer and Salancik, 1978; Oliver, 1991; Boddewyn and Brewer, 1994; Lewin et al., 1999; Culpepper, 2001; H”
What Connects Industrial Relations and Corporate Governance? Explaining Institutional Complementarity (2005, background): “1999; Streeck 1991), company finance (as distinguished from company monitoring), cooperation between firms in standard setting and technology transfer (Hall and Soskice 2001), management careers (Lane 1992), the rules of company decision-making, such as CEO power and veto points inside management, c”