The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis

by Morgan, Glenn; Campbell, John; Crouch, Colin; Pedersen, Ove Kai; Whitley, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780199233762
• ISBN10: 0199233764
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

It is increasingly accepted that "institutions matter" for economic organization and outcomes. The last decade has seen significant expansion in research examining how institutional contexts affect the nature and behavior of firms, the operation of markets, and economic outcomes. Yet "institutions" conceal a multitude of issues and perspectives. Much of this research has been comparative, and followed different models such as "varieties of capitalism", "national business systems", and "social systems of production". This Handbook explores these issues, perspectives, and models, with the leading scholars in the area contributing chapters to provide a central reference point for academics, scholars, and students.

Author Biography

Glenn Morgan is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.

John L. Campbell is Class of 1925 Professor, Department of Sociology, Dartmouth College.

Colin Crouch is Professor of Governance and Public Management at the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.

Ove Kaj Pedersen is Professor of Political Science at the International Centre for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School.

Richard Whitley is Professor of Organizational Sociology at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Theories and Methods in Comparative Institutional Analysis

Institutional Perspectives - Working towards Coherence or Irreconcilable Diversity?

Beyond Comparative Statics: Historical Institutional Approaches to Stability and Change In the Political Economy of Labor

Actors and Institutions

Institutional Reproduction and Change

Complementarity

Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Social Science Data

Institutions, States, and Markets

The State in the Economy: Neoliberal or Neoactivist?

Money and Markets

Transnational Institutions and International Regimes

Law as a Governing Institution

Institutional Change in Financial Systems

The Comparative Institutional Analysis of Innovation: From Industrial Policy to the Knowledge Economy

Changing Competition Models in Market Economies: The Effects of Internationalization, Technological Innovations, and Academic Expansion on the Conditions Supporting Dominant Economic Logics

Institutions, Wealth, and Inequality

The Organization of Economic Actors

Corporate Governance

The Institutional Construction of Firms

Institutionalising the Employment Relationship

Inter-Firm Relations in Global Manufacturing: Disintegrated Production and Its Globalization

Challenges for Comparative Institutional Analysis

Institutional transformation in European Post-Communist Regimes

State Failure

Financial Capitalism Resurgent: Comparative Institutionalism and the Challenges of Financialization

Institutional Competitiveness: How Nations Came to Compete

Institutions in History: Bringing Capitalism Back In

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