Contemporary capitalism: the embeddedness of institutions

By Guilherme Sobrinho. 2004

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Micro-politics and conflicts in multinational corporations: Current debates, re-framing, and contributions of this special issue (2006, background): “…and the industrial policy of the national government – influence the MNC's forms of control (e.g. Dörrenbächer, 2000; Harzing and Sorge, 2003), work systems (e.g. Geppert et al., 2003), production systems (e.g. Hollingsworth and Boyer, 1997) and employment practices (e.g. Edwards and Ferner, 2002).”
Networked Governance or Just Networks? Local Governance of the Knowledge Economy in Limerick (Ireland) and Karlskrona (Sweden) (2007, background): “1 Economic sociologists equate economic governance with economic coordination and therefore include all social institutions which regulate behaviours including markets, associations, communities, networks and corporate hierarchies (Crouch, 2005, p. 105; Hollingsworth and Boyer, 1997).”
Why would corporations behave in socially responsible ways? an institutional theory of corporate social responsibility (2007, background): “This definition fits squarely with the insights of comparative political economists, institutionalists , and others noted earlier who have emphasized the problems of opportunism, moral hazard, and the erosion of public or collective goods (e.g., North, 1990; Ostrom, 1990; Streeck, 1997).”
Institutional change in economic geography (2014, background): “These rules are made, first, by vendors and suppliers seeking to obtain new clients for their products (Loasby, 2000), and, second, by regulating authorities and similar organizations that enforce compliance to prevent opportunistic behaviour and market failure (Boyer, 1997).”
Human resource management in US subsidiaries in Europe and Australia: centralisation or autonomy? (2008, unknown): “One particular feature of Germany is its elaborate system of co-determination, which is regulated at the plant level by the Works Constitution Act of 1972 and at the enterprise level by the Works Constitution Act of 1952, superseded in 1976 (Hollingsworth, 1997).”
Technology and the Economy (2002, background): “At this level of analyses, inquires like those undertaken in different veins by Soskice (1997), Boyer and Hollingsworth (1997), Hall and Soskice (2001), Crouch and Streek (1997), Lazonick (2002), Dore (2000), starts where this chapter ends, addressing a few of the macro condition making up for…”
Globalizing retail: conceptualizing the distribution-based transnational corporation (TNC) (2005, background): “The latter two environments are often referred to elsewhere in the ‘varieties of capitalism’ literature (Hollingsworth and Boyer, 1997) as ‘coordinated’ and ‘merchant’ economies respectively (Christopherson, 2002).”
The Social Construction of Contextual Rationalities in MNCs: An Anglo‐German Comparison of Subsidiary Choice* (2003, background): “In this context, Streeck has underlined the beneficial constraints of the German NBS, which prevents the erosion of trust and a low road competitive strategy, which undervalues worker involvement and skills (Streeck, 1997, p.206).”