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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Varieties of capitalism"”.
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Posztszocialista fejlődés és a Hirschman-trilemma = Post-socialist development and the Hirschman trilemma
… tekintett ún. „kapitalizmus változatai” (varieties of capitalism” – VoC) elmélet nyugati gazdaságokra fókuszáló, lassú intézményi mozgásokat megragadni képes, vállalatcentrikus szemléletébe a tranzíciós országok szocialista örökségükkel, képlékeny, átalakuló intézményrendszerükkel, a …
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Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Britain and West Germany and Their Pursuit of Industrial Competitiveness, c.1949-c.1979
This thesis examines the culture and conduct of small and medium-sized, family-owned or -controlled enterprises (SMEs) in the West Midlands of England and the Stuttgart region of Baden-Württemberg in West Germany in the period between 1949 and 1979, examining the histories of six companies in …
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The political economy of technological innovation : a change in the debate
… innovation rates. However, after decades of research, the empirical evidence for this relationship remains equivocal. There are simply many countries with "good" institutions that do not innovate at the technological frontier, and many countries with "bad" institutions that have …
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Lost in Transition: How Ireland and Three Other Small Open Economies Responded to Europeanisation 1987-2013
This thesis provides a political economy account of how four small open economies – Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Ireland – have coped with the adaptation required by the exogenous pressures of Europeanisation over a period of 25 years. The research is grounded in Polyanian conceptualising …
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A Neo-Gramscian Perspective on Varieties of Environmental Governance: Hegemonic Struggles in China’s Rare Earth Industry
… the state, business and NGOs in the development of environmental governance of China's rare earth industry. Although rare earths are indispensable to myriad clean technologies, mining and processing rare earth ores cause heavy pollution. As the world's largest supplier, China's rare earth …
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The Role of Trust in the Divergent Development of Alternative Lending Channels in the UK and Germany
A large body of literature in the social sciences highlights the importance of trust as a necessary condition for economic exchange and the functioning of markets. By contrast, the relationship between trust and variation in financial market practices across national economies has received …
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The Micro-implications of a disintegrating social contract : public pension funds and community investing in New York City
… hand, that this is occurring in the context of a disintegrating social contract could be a troubling feature, where private citizens are subsidizing their communities in the absence of state support. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines "social contract" as "an actual or hypothetical …
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The politics of skill building in a global age
… This dissertation investigates the impact of the home economy skill base on firms' off-shoring and out-sourcing decisions, asking: how are globalization pressures mediated and shaped by politically constructed institutions? Chapters One and Two review the literatures on 'varieties of …
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Punishing the poor again?: irregularity, the 'criminalisation of migration' and precarious labour markets in the UK and Germany
The increasingly punitive nature of immigration control across the Western world and the overrepresentation of foreign nationals in European prisons has revitalised criminological interest in issues of migration. Alessandro De Giorgi (2010: 153) and others contend that restrictive, 'illegalising' …
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MULTINAZIONALI E LAVORATORI: UN CONFRONTO DI HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TRA ITALIA E BRASILE
… between Italian and Brazilian subsidiaries of three multinational corporations (MNCs) at the shop floor, the relevance of the institutions for the economic actions is highlighted and the varieties of capitalism framework is assumed as a theoretical model. This analytical model is broadened …
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Consumption and Commodities: The Political Economy of Canada’s Growth Model
… contemporary growth model in the context of the broader growth crisis affecting advanced capitalist democracies. Drawing on the Growth Model Perspective (GMP), it identifies Canada’s hybrid growth model (GM) and develops an explanatory narrative emphasizing the interplay between …