Capitalism and Business
1st Edition
Published on 24. November 2015
Book
Hardback
1264 pages
978-1-4739-0222-0 (ISBN)
Description
Debates around the origins, nature, value, effectiveness and sustainability of various 'models' of capitalism have become increasingly prominent since the collapse of the state socialist political and economic systems in the early 1990s.
While comparative studies of the differing configurations of business and political systems have always been relevant and important, these discussions toward the end of the 20th century marked the arrival of the distinct field of study often labelled the 'varieties of capitalism' school of thought.
Developments in the field and in the broader macro-economy since that time have been very substantial, and the literature selected for this Major Work provides a much-needed comprehensive overview of these developments, going back to the Cold War era to explore some of the earlier discussions of the divergence and convergence of 'industrial models', and progressing back through to the modern day by incorporating critiques and newer developments in 'varieties of capitalism' theorising.
While comparative studies of the differing configurations of business and political systems have always been relevant and important, these discussions toward the end of the 20th century marked the arrival of the distinct field of study often labelled the 'varieties of capitalism' school of thought.
Developments in the field and in the broader macro-economy since that time have been very substantial, and the literature selected for this Major Work provides a much-needed comprehensive overview of these developments, going back to the Cold War era to explore some of the earlier discussions of the divergence and convergence of 'industrial models', and progressing back through to the modern day by incorporating critiques and newer developments in 'varieties of capitalism' theorising.
Reviews / Votes
This is a comprehensive collection of classic essays on capitalism and business is carefully selected and a must read for students and scholars interested in the field. It charts the trajectory of the intellectual development and theoretical debates around the issues of capitalism and offers rich empirical insights in various national and industrial settings. It is a very timely collection that provides food for thought for those engaging in similar studies in newly industrialised, transitional and emerging economies. -- Fang CookeMore details
Series
Edition
Four-Volume Set
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
2505 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4739-0222-0 (9781473902220)
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Person
Leo McCann is Professor of Organisation Studies at Manchester Business School. His research and teaching focuses on the impacts of large-scale economic change on work and organization across numerous countries. He has written many articles on the subject of the international transformation of white-collar work in journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, and Organization Studies. He is the co-author of Managing in the Modern Corporation(Cambridge University Press, 2009), a major empirical study into the restructuring of white-collar work in the UK, USA and Japan. His research draws on the paradigms of sociology of work, varieties of capitalism, and political economy, exploring how large-scale 'global' transformations are translated through national institutional structures with often profound effects on the everyday lives of organizations, managers, workers and citizens. He is also the author of International and Comparative Business: Foundations of Political Economies (Sage Publications, 2014), a textbook based on over a decade of experience teaching and researching comparative capitalism, globalization, and the restructuring of organizations and work.
Content
VOLUME ONE: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CAPITALISM AND BUSINESS
The Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
Freedom in a Complex Society - Karl Polanyi
Industrialization, Management, and Ideological Appeals - Reinhard Bendix
Pluralistic Industrialism - Clark Kerr, John Dunlop, Frederick Harbison and Charles Myers
Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective - Alexander Gerschenkron
The Argument in Brief - Andrew Shonfield
Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony - John Meyer and Brian Rowan
The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields - Paul DiMaggio and Walter Powell
Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness - Mark Granovetter
Clio and the Economics of QWERTY - Paul David
Crafting an Analytic Framework I: Three Pillars of Institutions - William Scott
The Regulation School, the Employment Relation and Financialization - John Grahl and Paul Teague
System, Society and Dominance Effects in Cross-National Organisational Analysis - Chris Smith and Peter Meiksins
VOLUME TWO: CLASSIC AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS OF CAPITALISM AND BUSINESS
An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism - Peter Hall and David Soskice
Varieties of Capitalism - Richard Whitley
Institutional Complementarity and Diversity of Social Systems of Innovation and Production - Bruno Amable
Positive-Sum Solutions in a World of Trade-Offs? - Gosta Esping-Andersen
The Comparative Study of Organizational Paradigms - Mauro Guillen
Managing for Ford - Ken Starkey and Alan McKinlay
Soviet Marxism and the Ending of Mass Unemployment - David Lane
Where Are We Now? Musings of an Evolutionist - Ronald Dore
Standort Deutschland in the Globalising Economy: An End to the Economic Miracle? - Rebecca Harding
Many Roads to Flexibility: How Large Firms Built Autarchic Regional Production Systems in France - Bob Hancke
The Decline of the British Economy: An Institutional Perspective - Bernard Elbaum and William Lazonick
The Swedish Model in Turbulent Times: Decline or Renaissance? - Dominique Anxo and Harald Niklasson
Deep Finance: The Organizational Bases of South Korea's Financial Collapse - Nicole Biggart
VOLUME THREE: CONTEMPORARY EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM
The Financialization of the American Economy - Greta Krippner
Restructuring Managerial Labour in the USA, the UK, and Japan: Challenging the Salience of 'Varieties of Capitalism' - Leo McCann, John Hassard and Jonathan Morris
The Disintegration of Organised Capitalism: German Corporate Governance in the 1990s - Juergen Beyer and Martin Hoepner
Deviant or Different? Corporate Governance in Japan and Germany - Ronald Dore
Comparative Capitalisms, Ideational Political Economy and French Post-Dirigiste Responses to the Global Financial Crisis - Ben Clift
Is the European Social Model Fragmenting? - John Grahl and Paul Teague
Unsustainable Employment Portfolios - John Buchanan, Gary Dymski, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams
The Varieties of Capitalism and Hybrid Success: Denmark in the Global Economy - John Campbell and Ove Pedersen
From East-Asian 'Miracle' to Neo-liberal 'Mediocrity': The Effects of Liberalization and Financial Opening on the Post-crisis Korean Economy - James Crotty and Kang-Kook Lee
Why Social Democrats Become Neoliberals: Lessons from the Swedish Case - J. Magnus Ryner
What Kind of Capitalism for Russia? A Comparative Analysis - David Lane
Enlarging the Varieties of Capitalism: The Emergence of Dependent Market Economies in East Central Europe - Andreas Noelke and Arjan Vliegenthart
The Capitalist Business System of China and Its Rationale - Gordon Redding
VOLUME FOUR: CRITIQUES AND REVISIONS OF THE VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM PARADIGM
The Varieties of Capitalism Paradigm: Not Enough Variety? - Matthew Allen
Manifesto for a Post-Colonial International Business and Management Studies: A Provocation - R.I. Westwood and Gavin Jack
What about the Elephant in the Room? Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties in Capitalism - Ian Bruff
The State of the Art: Towards a More Dynamic Theory of Capitalist Variety - Richard Deeg and Gregory Jackson
Studying Comparative Capitalisms by Going Left and by Going Deeper - David Coates
Legal Professionals and Transnational Law-Making: A Case of Distributed Agency - Sigrid Quack
Institutional Work: Refocusing Institutional Studies of Organization - Thomas Lawrence, Roy Suddaby and Bernard Leca
Institutional Change in Varieties of Capitalism - Peter Hall and Kathleen Thelen
Pressure from Without, Subversion from Within: The Two-Pronged German Employer Offensive - Daniel Kinderman
Globalisation, Skill Formation and the Varieties of Capitalism Approach - Hugh Lauder, Phillip Brown and David Ashton
Varieties of Capitalism: Trajectories of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity - Kathleen Thelen
Neoliberalism and Its Implications for Management Practice - Alexander Styhre
Prologue to the New Spirit of Capitalism - Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello
The Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
Freedom in a Complex Society - Karl Polanyi
Industrialization, Management, and Ideological Appeals - Reinhard Bendix
Pluralistic Industrialism - Clark Kerr, John Dunlop, Frederick Harbison and Charles Myers
Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective - Alexander Gerschenkron
The Argument in Brief - Andrew Shonfield
Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony - John Meyer and Brian Rowan
The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields - Paul DiMaggio and Walter Powell
Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness - Mark Granovetter
Clio and the Economics of QWERTY - Paul David
Crafting an Analytic Framework I: Three Pillars of Institutions - William Scott
The Regulation School, the Employment Relation and Financialization - John Grahl and Paul Teague
System, Society and Dominance Effects in Cross-National Organisational Analysis - Chris Smith and Peter Meiksins
VOLUME TWO: CLASSIC AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS OF CAPITALISM AND BUSINESS
An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism - Peter Hall and David Soskice
Varieties of Capitalism - Richard Whitley
Institutional Complementarity and Diversity of Social Systems of Innovation and Production - Bruno Amable
Positive-Sum Solutions in a World of Trade-Offs? - Gosta Esping-Andersen
The Comparative Study of Organizational Paradigms - Mauro Guillen
Managing for Ford - Ken Starkey and Alan McKinlay
Soviet Marxism and the Ending of Mass Unemployment - David Lane
Where Are We Now? Musings of an Evolutionist - Ronald Dore
Standort Deutschland in the Globalising Economy: An End to the Economic Miracle? - Rebecca Harding
Many Roads to Flexibility: How Large Firms Built Autarchic Regional Production Systems in France - Bob Hancke
The Decline of the British Economy: An Institutional Perspective - Bernard Elbaum and William Lazonick
The Swedish Model in Turbulent Times: Decline or Renaissance? - Dominique Anxo and Harald Niklasson
Deep Finance: The Organizational Bases of South Korea's Financial Collapse - Nicole Biggart
VOLUME THREE: CONTEMPORARY EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM
The Financialization of the American Economy - Greta Krippner
Restructuring Managerial Labour in the USA, the UK, and Japan: Challenging the Salience of 'Varieties of Capitalism' - Leo McCann, John Hassard and Jonathan Morris
The Disintegration of Organised Capitalism: German Corporate Governance in the 1990s - Juergen Beyer and Martin Hoepner
Deviant or Different? Corporate Governance in Japan and Germany - Ronald Dore
Comparative Capitalisms, Ideational Political Economy and French Post-Dirigiste Responses to the Global Financial Crisis - Ben Clift
Is the European Social Model Fragmenting? - John Grahl and Paul Teague
Unsustainable Employment Portfolios - John Buchanan, Gary Dymski, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams
The Varieties of Capitalism and Hybrid Success: Denmark in the Global Economy - John Campbell and Ove Pedersen
From East-Asian 'Miracle' to Neo-liberal 'Mediocrity': The Effects of Liberalization and Financial Opening on the Post-crisis Korean Economy - James Crotty and Kang-Kook Lee
Why Social Democrats Become Neoliberals: Lessons from the Swedish Case - J. Magnus Ryner
What Kind of Capitalism for Russia? A Comparative Analysis - David Lane
Enlarging the Varieties of Capitalism: The Emergence of Dependent Market Economies in East Central Europe - Andreas Noelke and Arjan Vliegenthart
The Capitalist Business System of China and Its Rationale - Gordon Redding
VOLUME FOUR: CRITIQUES AND REVISIONS OF THE VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM PARADIGM
The Varieties of Capitalism Paradigm: Not Enough Variety? - Matthew Allen
Manifesto for a Post-Colonial International Business and Management Studies: A Provocation - R.I. Westwood and Gavin Jack
What about the Elephant in the Room? Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties in Capitalism - Ian Bruff
The State of the Art: Towards a More Dynamic Theory of Capitalist Variety - Richard Deeg and Gregory Jackson
Studying Comparative Capitalisms by Going Left and by Going Deeper - David Coates
Legal Professionals and Transnational Law-Making: A Case of Distributed Agency - Sigrid Quack
Institutional Work: Refocusing Institutional Studies of Organization - Thomas Lawrence, Roy Suddaby and Bernard Leca
Institutional Change in Varieties of Capitalism - Peter Hall and Kathleen Thelen
Pressure from Without, Subversion from Within: The Two-Pronged German Employer Offensive - Daniel Kinderman
Globalisation, Skill Formation and the Varieties of Capitalism Approach - Hugh Lauder, Phillip Brown and David Ashton
Varieties of Capitalism: Trajectories of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity - Kathleen Thelen
Neoliberalism and Its Implications for Management Practice - Alexander Styhre
Prologue to the New Spirit of Capitalism - Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello