This paper examines the role of institutional analysis within the field of international
business (IB) studies. Within IB, institutions matter, but the view of institutions tends to be …

There are three reasons for writing this book. The first is to establish whether the process of
European integration is making any practical difference to industrial relations. Is European …

Comparing Welfare Capitalism pulls together traditions in post-war social science that have
often touched but never became systematically integrated. The first and perhaps most …

One of the fastest growing European catchwords at the present time-the 'European Social
Model'(ESM)-is used to describe the European experience of simultaneously promoting …

This book combines the two most important typologies of capitalist diversity; Es**-
Andersen's welfare regime typology and Hall and Soskice's' Varieties of Capitalism'typology …

Against the backdrop of the neo-institutionalist and national business systems approaches
to the global–local question in international management, this paper discusses the …

There is a consensus among European trade unions that economic integration should be
complemented by a strong 'social dimension'. What is far less clearly agreed is what 'social …

This article addresses the question of how the institutions of the new EU member states
match with the institution types previously worked out for the old member states, and …

The president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, stated in an interview that the
European Social Model (ESM) is 'gone'. In the same interview he also underlined the need …

Die rasante politische wie wissenschaftliche Begrijfskarriere des „Europäischen
Sozialmodells" wird in diesem Beitrag näher in den Blick genommen. Er spürt zunächst auf …