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Zusatztext The authors construct theoretical and empirical accounts of how institutions emerge and change and consider how firms use and reconstitute institutional settings, especially in the context of multinational firms operating across different international concepts. Klappentext This book focuses on how institutional settings provide a variety of resources and opportunities for firms to develop and evolve new competencies. It shows how national institutional contexts are often heterogeneous and loosely connected, offering a variety of resources that firms can use in order to enhance their competitiveness. Drawing on and developing their previous work, this international group of contributors present a range of theoretical and empirical studies that, taken together, create a new understanding of the relationship between national institutional settings and firm strategy and structure. It will be of interest to academics, researchers, and graduate students of International Business, Management Studies, Economics, Political Science, and Sociology. Zusammenfassung Focuses on how institutional settings provide a variety of opportunities for firms to develop and evolve new competencies. This work shows how national institutional contexts are often heterogeneous and loosely connected, and is useful to academics, researchers, and students of International Business, Management Studies, and Sociology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Glenn Morgan: Changing Capitalisms? Internationalization, Institutionalization, and Systems of Economic Organization Section I: Institutional Complementarity, Contradiction, and Change in Business Systems 2: Richard Deeg: Path Dependency, Institutional Complementarity, and Change in National Business Systems 3: Bob Hancke and Michael Goyer: Degrees of Freedom: Rethinking the Institutional Analysis of Economic Change 4: Christel Lane: Institutional Transformation and System Change: Changes the Corporate Governance of German Corporations 5: Arndt Sorge: Systemic Perspectives on Business Practices and Institutions: A Plea Beyond Comparative Statics 6: Marie-Laure Djelic and Sigrid Quack: Rethinking Path Dependency: The Crooked Path of Institutional Change in Postwar Germany 7: Colin Crouch: Complementarity and Fit in the Study of Comparative Capitalisms 8: Richard Whitley: How National are Business Systems? The Role of Different State Types and Complemntary Institutions in Constructing Homogeneous Systems of Economic Coordination and Control Section 2: Changing Firm Capabilities Within and Across Institutional Frameworks 9: Richard Whitley: The Limited Development of Transnational Organizational Capabilities in Multinational Companies: Institutional Constraints on International Authority Sharing and Careers 10: Glenn Morgan and Sigrid Quack: Internationalization and Capability Development in Regulated Professional Service Firms 11: Gary Herrigel and Volker Wittke: Emerging Strategies and Forms of Governance in the Components Industry in High Wage Areas 12: Eli Moen and Kari Lilja: Change in Coordinated Market Economies: The Case of Finland and Nokia Afterword 13: Peer Hull Kristensen: Modelling National Business Systesm and the Civilizing Process 14: Glenn Morgan: Institutional Complementarities, Path Dependency, and the Dynamics of Firms ...
