J. Rogers Hollingsworth

Contemporary capitalism : the embeddedness of institutions

Part I: 1. Coordination of economic actors and social systems of production Rogers Hollingsworth and Robert Boyer Part II: Introduction: the variety of institutional arrangements and their complementarity in modern economics Rogers Hollingsworth and Robert Boyer 2. The variety and unequal performance of markets Robert Boyer 3. A typology of cooperative interorganizational relationships and networks Jerald Hage and Catherine Alter 4. Weathering the storm: associational governance in a globalizing era William Coleman 5. Constitutional orders: trust building and response to change Charles F. Sabel Part III: Introduction: how and why do social systems of production change? Robert Boyer and Rogers Hollingsworth 6. Beneficial constraints: on the economic limits of rational voluntarism Wolfgang Streeck 7. Flexible specialization: theory and evidence in the analysis of industrial change 8. Globalization, variety and mass production: the metamorphosis of mass production in the new competitive age Benjamin Coriat 9. Continuities and changes in social systems of production: the cases of Japan, Germany, and the United States Rogers Hollingsworth Part IV: Introduction: levels of spatial coordination and the embeddedness of institutions Philippe Schmitter 10. Perspectives on globalization and economic coordination Wyn Grant 11. Globalization in question: international economic relations and forms of public governance Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson 12. The formation of international regimes in the absence of a Hegemon: clubs are trump Lorraine Eden and Fen Osler Hampson 13. The emerging Euro-polity and its impact upon national systems of production Philippe Schmitter Part V: Conclusion: from national embeddness to spatial and institutional nestedness Robert Boyer and Rogers Hollingsworth.

Doing institutional analysis: implications for the study of innovations

The study of institutions and innovativeness is presently high on the agenda of the social sciences. There is increasing concern with how a societys innovativeness is associated with its international competitiveness. And as scholars study why the innovative styles of societies vary there has been increasing concern with how the institutional makeup of a society influences its particular style of innovativeness. However, before there can be significant advance in the study of this problem, it is important that we have a better understanding of what constitutes institutional analysis. Every social science discipline – with the exception of psychology – has at least one distinctive strategy for doing institutional analysis. And it is because of the lack of consensus as to the appropriate boundaries and content of institutional analysis that we have limited ability to make theoretical advances in understanding how the institutional makeup of a society impacts on its innovativeness. Recognizing that this is a serious problem for the social sciences, this article attempts to structure the field of institutional analysis and takes the first steps in relating it to the study of a societys style of innovativeness.

Governance of the American economy

List of contributors List of figures List of tables Preface Part I. Conceptual and Historical Foundations: 1. Economic governance and the analysis of structural change in the American economy Leon N. Lindberg, John L. Campbell and J. Rogers Hollingsworth 2. The logic of coordinating American manufacturing sectors J. Rogers Hollingsworth Part II. Empirical Studies of Governance of the American Transformations in the United States: 3. Transformations in the governance of the American telecommunications industry Kenneth N. Bickers 4. Contradictions of governance in the nuclear energy sector John L. Campbell 5. The statist evolution of rail governance in the United States, 1830-1986 Robert Dawson Kennedy Jr 6. Governance of the steel industry: what caused the disintegration of the oligopoly? Christoph Scherrer 7. Governance of the automobile industry: the transformation of labour and and supplier relations Christoph Scherrer 8. The dairy industry: form yeomanry to the institutionalization of multilateral governance Brigitte Young 9. Economic governance and the American meatpacking industry John Portz 10. The invisible hand in healthcare: the rise of financial markets in the US hospital industry Patricia J. Arnold Part III. Theoretical Evaluation of the Empirical Cases: 11. The evolution of governance regimes John L. Campbell and Leon N. Lindberg 12. The state and the organization of economic activity Leon N. Lindberg and John L. Campbell References Index.

A Strategy for the Analysis of Idea Innovation Networks and Institutions

The perspective of this paper is that variation in commercially successful radical product/process innovations among science-based industrial sectors can be explored by focusing on idea innovation networks. Idea innovation networks have six arenas reflecting research basic research, applied research, product development research, production research, quality control research, and commercialization/ marketing research. The paper develops two interrelated hypotheses. The first is that the greater the diversity of competencies or knowledges that are connected with frequent and intense communication within an arena and the greater the size of the arena, and the greater the likelihood that radical innovations will emerge. The second hypothesis involves the same kind of logic: if radical solutions are to occur in more than one arena, there must be intense and frequent communication among the different arenas involving radically new ways of thinking. Radical research solutions in one arena usually involve tacit knowledge and to be effectively communicated to another arena, both tacit knowledge and codified knowledge must be communicated across arenas. However, the communication of tacit knowledge is more likely to occur when there is frequent and intense communication across arenas. In analyzing connectedness, the authors draw on the literatures about organizational innovation and organizational learning. In addition, they recognize that institutional environments shape the size of research arenas and the connectedness within and among them. The suggestion is that the more similarity there is across sectors, in patterns of research arena size and connectedness, the greater the support for a national system of innovation interpretation. Contrariwise, less similarity of network arena characteristics across sectors may mean more support for the strong role of globalization forces in affecting innovation.

New perspectives on the spatial dimensions of economic coordination: tensions between globalization and social systems of production

This article argues that the coordination of economic institutions is occurring simultaneously at various spatial levels (e.g. subnational region, nation-state, transnational region, global). The institutional arrangements which at one time were congruent at the national levels are now more dispersed at multiple spatial levels. Impressive economic performance now requires that economic actors be well coordinated in all spatial areas simultaneously. In short, actors are increasingly nested in institutional arrangements which are linked at all levels. The parts of each system have become far more interdependent than was the case only two decades ago, and the increasingly complex distribution of power and resources across geographical levels is further evidence of how economic institutions have become nested in multiple worlds. This perspective about the diffusion of power suggests that there is slowly evolving a set of institutions for the governance of societies at multiple levels, but this process is poorly understood and its long-term consequences are rarely discussed. The future is very much open, but a perspective on long-term historical trends suggests that one of the major challenges of our time is to create a new theory of governance involving institutions and local territories nested in a world of unprecedented complexity, one in which subnational regions, nation-states, continental and global regimes are all intricately linked.

The Political-Structural Basis for Economic Performance

Focusing on France, Great Britain, Sweden, and the United States, this study attempts to answer two basic questions. First, how does one explain the variation across these countries in the organizational structure and the power of the working class? Second, for the period since 1950 how does variation in the organizational structure, the power of the working class, and the structure of the state influence such economic performances as inequality in the distribution of income and rates of change in economic productivity? Whereas the discipline of economics generally explains these performances with economic variables, this article is distinctive in demonstrating that political variables are also important. The findings indicate that the encompassing group structure of Swedish labor unions has maximized equality in income distribution and high rates of change in economic productivity while the fragmented and nonencompassing group structure of American labor has had the opposite effect. Sweden and the United States are polar opposites, with the British and French cases falling between the two extremes on most variables.

Varieties of capitalism: comparative institutional approaches to economic organization and innovation

Innovation and Institutions is an extensive elaboration on the make up of systems of innovation. It examines why some countries are more innovative than others, why national styles of innovation differ, and goes on to explore why some countries make radical innovations but fail to successfully market them, whilst others making incremental innovations have more commercial success.

Centralization and Power in Social Service Delivery Systems

1 Introduction.- 2 Centralization: A Conceptual and Measurement Strategy.- 3 The American Educational System.- 4 The Educational System of England and Wales.- 5 The American Medical System.- 6 The Medical System of England and Wales.- 7 Centralization and Power in Delivery Systems.- 8 Conclusion.

Perspectives on Industrializing Societies

The scholarly approach to the study of history runs somewhat contrary to the needs generated by our society’s intellectual perspective. While our society’s intellectual horizon has been expanding in both space and time, the study of history has too often remained nationalistic in its concerns and very restricted in terms of concepts, space, and time. The major problem facing historians may well be the linking of the tendency to specialize on a given geographical area within

Differences Between Voluntary and Public Organizations: The Behavior of Hospitals in England and Wales

This study confronts the following questions: what are the conditions under which a society decides to do things in the public and voluntary nonprofit sectors, and in what ways do organizations behave differently, depending on whether they are in the public or the voluntary nonprofit sector? To address these questions, the study focuses on English and Welsh hospitals during the twentieth century but prior to the National Health Service. The study argues that as long as the sources of funding for public and voluntary organizations diverge, their behavior will diverge. Because English and Welsh voluntary hospitals prior to the National Health Service were heavily dependent on the voluntary sector for funding and the public hospitals were primarily dependent on the public sector for their funding, the data set is especially valuable for observing how divergent sources of funding influence the behavior of organizations.