In:National Capitalisms, Global Competition, and Economic Performance
Edited by Sigrid Quack, Glenn Morgan and Richard Whitley
[Advances in Organization Studies 3] 2000
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 15 March 2000
https://doi.org/10.1075/aios.3.toc
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Table of contents
List of Contributorsvii
Acknowledgementix
Prefacexi
I. Introduction
1. National Capitalisms, Global Competition and Economic Performance: An Introduction3
II. Changing Business Environments and National Patterns of Organisational Innovation and Adaptation
3. Performance Standards in Supplier Relations: Relational Contracts, Organisational Processes and the Institutional Environment in a Cross-National Perspective53
4. Comparative Managerial Learning in Germany and Britain: Techno-Organisational Innovation in Network Industries79
5. Strategy, Structure and Performance in European Industry: Corporate and National Perspectives105
III. Societal Performance Standards and Their Internationalisation
6. Confidence and Confidentiality: The Social Construction of Performance Standards in Banking131
8. Reproducing Diversity: ISO 9000 and Work Organisation in the French and German Car Industry173
IV. National Business Systems and Corporate Performance in Globalising Markets
9. Where Do Multinational Corporations Conduct Their Business Activity and What are the Consequences for National Systems?191
10. Flagships, Flotillas and Corvettes: Corporate Actors, National Business Systems and Sectoral Dynamics in Telecommunications213
11. Economic Performance and National Business Systems: France and the United Kingdom in the International Construction Sector237
V. Institutional Legacies and Performance Outcomes in National Business Systems
13. Economic Performance of Finland After the Second World War: From Success to Failure277
14. Success without Shock Therapy in Eastern Europe: The Case of Slovenia291
Index317
