Divergent Capitalisms

Divergent Capitalisms

Author: Richard Whitley

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 1999-04-01

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0191567221

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The late twentieth century has witnessed the establishment of new forms of capitalism in East Asia as well as new market economies in Eastern Europe. Despite the growth of international investment and capital flows, these distinctive business systems remain different from each other and from those already developed in Europe and the Americas. This continued diversity of capitalism results from, and is reproduced by, significant differences in societal institutions and agencies such as the state, capital and labour markets, and dominant beliefs about trust, loyalty, and authority. This book presents the comparative business systems framework for describing and explaining the major differences in economic organization between market economies in the late twentieth century. This framework identifies the critical variations in coordination and control systems across forms of industrial capitalism, and shows how these are connected to major differences in their institutional contexts. Six major types of business system are identified and linked to different institutional arrangements. Significant differences in post-war East Asian business systems and the ways in which these are changing in the 1990s are analysed within this framework, which is also extended to compare the path-dependent nature of the new capitalisms emerging in Eastern Europe.


Divergent Capitalisms

Divergent Capitalisms

Author: Richard Whitley

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0198293968

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This text presents a framework for describing and explaining the differences in economic organization between market economies. It identifies variations in coordination and control systems across industrial capitalism, and shows how they are connected to differences in their institutional contexts.


Divergent Paths in Post-Communist Transformation

Divergent Paths in Post-Communist Transformation

Author: O. Havrylyshyn

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-02-20

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0230502857

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The most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the successes and failures of 27 countries post-communism transformation. Looking at life after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, the book examines and contrasts why some countries have virtually completed their transformation to a liberal polity and economy, while others lag behind.


Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism

Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism

Author: Herbert Kitschelt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-01-13

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 9780521634960

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In the early 1980s, many observers, argued that powerful organized economic interests and social democratic parties created successful mixed economies promoting economic growth, full employment, and a modicum of social equality. The present book assembles scholars with formidable expertise in the study of advanced capitalist politics and political economy to reexamine this account from the vantage point of the second half of the 1990s. The authors find that the conventional wisdom no longer adequately reflects the political and economic realities. Advanced democracies have responded in path-dependent fashion to such novel challenges as technological change, intensifying international competition, new social conflict, and the erosion of established patterns of political mobilization. The book rejects, however, the currently widespread expectation that 'internationalization' makes all democracies converge on similar political and economic institutions and power relations. Diversity among capitalist democracies persists, though in a different fashion than in the 'Golden Age' of rapid economic growth after World War II.


Divergent Paths

Divergent Paths

Author: Richard A. Posner

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2016-01-04

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0674286030

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Judges and legal scholars talk past one another, if they have any conversation at all. Academics criticize judicial decisions in theoretical terms, which leads many judges to dismiss academic discourse as divorced from reality. Richard Posner reflects on the causes and consequences of this widening gap and what can be done to close it.


Business Systems and Organizational Capabilities

Business Systems and Organizational Capabilities

Author: Richard Whitley

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007-11-22

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 0199205175

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Whitley is one of the leading exponents of the 'business systems' approach which analyses the different character and organisation of firms in different national settings. Here he summarises his approach and links it to the capabilities and strategies of firms.


Capitalism and Democracy

Capitalism and Democracy

Author: Thomas A. Spragens, Jr.

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess

Published: 2021-03-01

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0268200157

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This book serves as an introduction to the ongoing political debate about the relationship of capitalism and democracy. In recent years, the ideological battles between advocates of free markets and minimal government, on the one hand, and adherents of greater democratic equality and some form of the welfare state, on the other hand, have returned in full force. Anyone who wants to make sense of contemporary American politics and policy battles needs to have some understanding of the divergent beliefs and goals that animate this debate. In Capitalism and Democracy, Thomas A. Spragens, Jr., examines the opposing sides of the free market versus welfare state debate through the lenses of political economy, moral philosophy, and political theory. He asks: Do unchecked markets maximize prosperity, or do they at times produce wasteful and damaging outcomes? Are market distributions morally appropriate, or does fairness require some form of redistribution? Would a society of free markets and minimal government be the best kind of society possible, or would it have serious problems? After leading the reader through a series of thought experiments designed to compare and clarify the thought processes and beliefs held by supporters of each side, Spragens explains why there are no definitive answers to these questions. He concludes, however, that some answers are better than others, and he explains why his own judgement is that a vigorous free marketplace provides great benefits to a democratic society, both economically and politically, but that it also requires regulation and supplementation by collective action for a society to maximize prosperity, to mitigate some of the unfairness of the human condition, and to be faithful to important democratic purposes and ideals. This engaging and accessible book will interest students and scholars of political economy, democratic theory, and theories of social justice. It will also appeal to general readers who are seeking greater clarity and understanding of contemporary debates about government's role in the economy.


Globalization or Empire?

Globalization or Empire?

Author: Jan Nederveen Pieterse

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-01

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1135934797

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In this smart and concise examination of the trends driving contemporary globalization, Jan Nederveen Pieterse argues that the United States' pursuit of global primacy is based upon a complex melding of neoliberal economics and hegemonic politics. Do alternate capitalisms offer viable alternatives to the American way? Globalization or Empire? looks at globalization with acuity and thoughtfulness and uncovers its underlying dramas.


Integrating Varieties of Capitalism and Welfare State Research

Integrating Varieties of Capitalism and Welfare State Research

Author: Martin Schröder

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-04-11

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1137310308

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This book combines the two most important typologies of capitalist diversity; Esping-Andersen's welfare regime typology and Hall and Soskice's 'Varieties of Capitalism' typology, into a unified typology of capitalist diversity. The author shows empircally that certain welfare states bundle together with certain production systems.


Healing Capitalism

Healing Capitalism

Author: Jem Bendell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-08

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1351276468

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The global response from business to social and environmental issues during the past decade has created a corporate responsibility movement. But what has been the impact of this movement? The financial crisis that began in 2007 has led more and more people to question the fundamentals of our economic system. Now, some within the corporate responsibility movement are developing a vision and practice of a new form of capitalism, one that will require collective action to achieve. Bendell and Doyle draw on Lifeworth's annual reviews of corporate responsibility and explain how business leaders, stakeholders and related academe now need to experiment with new models that address the fundamental flaws of contemporary capitalism, including monetary systems, enterprise ownership, and regulation. This book will be a fantastic resource for business libraries, as it records and analyses key events, issues and trends in corporate responsibility during the first decade of the 21st century. It is a sequel and companion to Bendell's previous work, The Corporate Responsibility Movement.