Capitalist diversity and diversity within capitalism

Lane, Christel; Wood, Geoffrey

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“…This, in turn, suggests that the impact of any one national institution will depend upon the precise composition of the other institutions that influence particular organizations, leading to variation in the use of temporary workers by establishments within the same country or business system (Lane and Wood, 2009). …”

Section: Comparative Institutional Analyses and Temporary Workers: Prmentioning

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“…Recently, the business systems literature has highlighted the importance of the institutional specificities of workplaces (Allen, 2013;Allen and Whitley, 2012;Lane and Wood, 2009), meaning that the particular institutional features of establishments should be taken into consideration. For instance, not all workplaces within collaborative business systems will adhere to the ideal-typical establishment model for that system (Allen, 2004;Crouch and Farrell, 2004).…”

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Establishments’ use of temporary agency workers: the influence of institutions and establishments’ employment strategies

Allen

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The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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Syed Imran Saqib Alliance Manchester Business School AcknowledgementsWe are grateful to Prof. Wilkinson and three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and guidance on previous versions of this paper. AbstractComparative institutional analyses have added much to our understanding of HRM in different countries, providing powerful arguments against the need for flexible labour markets to boost economic performance. However, existing research has tended to downplay the possibility that variation within countries may result in a well-protected core of workers that grows ever smaller alongside increasing numbers of precarious workers. We draw on data from the World Economic Forum and the European Company Survey to examine how institutions influence establishments' use of temporary workers in 29 European countries plus Turkey. We analyse the data using 1) principal components analysis to categorize the countries in our analysis, 2) a two-step cluster analysis to draw up groups of establishments by their use of temporary workers, and 3) a multilevel logistic regression to examine how the 2 institutional setting of establishments and key establishment characteristics interact to influence workplaces' use of temporary workers. We show that institutional characteristics shape the prevalence of temporary workers in the 28 European Union member states plus FYR Macedonia and Turkey; however, institutions are not deterministic and important variation in the use of temporary workers depends upon the interaction between establishment characteristics and the establishment's business system.3

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Section: Comparative Institutional Analyses and Temporary Workers: Prmentioning

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Section: Comparative Institutional Analyses and Temporary Workers: Prmentioning

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Establishments’ use of temporary agency workers: the influence of institutions and establishments’ employment strategies

Allen

et al. 2016

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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“…However, the former has stressed the temporary, and inherently unstable nature of institutional mediation, and the uneven nature of systemic evolution and change (Boyer, 2006). Meanwhile, the latter sees institutions as flexible and dynamic, although at specific times, coherences will be evident at national and regional levels (Lane and Wood, 2009). From a range of different starting points, a number of different writers have also sought to broaden the range of capitalist archetypes, from a simple LME/CME dichotomy, inter alia to identify differences between European coordinated markets, and Far Eastern alternatives (Whitley, 1999), and between Scandinavia and continental Europe (Amable, 2003).…”

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Corporate Governance Regimes and Employment Relations in Europe

Goergen¹,

Brewster²,

Wood³

2010

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An influential strand of the finance literature focuses on the nature and extent of shareholder rights vis-à-vis employees. Most of the extant literature on the subject relies on a limited number of case studies and/or broad macroeconomic data, whereas this article draws on evidence from a large scale survey of organizations to test the predictions of the theories on the relative strength of workers and managers across the different governance regimes. This evidence highlights the complex relationship between societal institutions, legal traditions, political parties and electoral systems, on corporate governance regimes and the relative strength of unions and collective representation at workplace level, highlighting the limitations of the mainstream finance and economics rational-incentive based literature, and the value of alternative socio-economic approaches.Cette étude porte sur les relations entre les institutions, la gouvernance des entreprises et le pouvoir syndical. Elle fait appel à une enquête comparative menée sur une grande échelle. Un courant important de publications dans le domaine de la finance traite des droits de l’actionnaire comme étant l’élément clef d’une compréhension de la manière dont les entreprises se comportent. Plus récemment, ces écrits ont pris de l’ampleur en abordant la manière dont d’autres types de marché, incluant le marché du travail, sont régulés et la relation entre ce phénomène et les droits de l’actionnaire. Le courant principal de la littérature d’ordre financier continue à être dominé par des approches hiérarchiques rationnelles, qui s’intéressent aux effets institutionnels d’abord et avant tout en termes de contraintes sur les acteurs rationnels en se centrant sur la force relative des droits de propriété et en s’intéressant aux effets de la législation, des constitutions et de la politique. En réaction à cette situation, un ensemble émergent de travaux de nature socio-économique a formulé des critiques à l’endroit de telles approches sur trois plans : en premier lieu, le comportement d’un propriétaire actionnaire peut bien tout simplement ne pas refléter les pressions d’une régulation étatique ou encore leur absence, en sachant que des pressions institutionnelles peuvent opérer à des niveaux et des domaines sur un vaste registre, incluant les marchés, la société civile et les organisations. En deuxième lieu, la complémentarité des institutions peut ne pas nécessairement émerger des caractéristiques d’un support mutuel, mais elle peut en fait surgir des contradictions : de là, les droits forts de l’employé ne viennent pas nécessairement écarter des droits forts de propriété, ou vraiment, une performance effective des organisations. En troisième lieu, les employés et les dirigeants ne deviennent pas les sujets passifs de forces institutionnelles externes, mais ils font leur propre choix, ce qui vient modeler les résultats des organisations et exercer un impact sur les pouvoirs relatifs des propriétaires.Les prévisions qui découlent des approches rationnelles et incitat...

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“…Variegated capitalism has therefore remained a relatively unexplored concept and research programme. A notable exception is represented by the work of scholars in critical political economy investigating the diversity of capitalism (LANE and WOOD, 2009;BRUFF and EBENAU, 2014). In particular, Bob Jessop has expanded Peck and Theodore's critical account of the varieties-of-capitalism approach, providing an alternative framework for the analysis of variegated capitalism, mobilizing notions of compossibility, complementarity, competition, rivalry and antagonism among different modes of capital accumulation in a global context characterized by the ecological dominance of neoliberalism, in contrast to the static typologies of the mainstream varieties-of-capitalism literature (JESSOP, 2011).…”

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The Variegated Economics and the Potential Politics of the Smart City

Rossi¹

2015

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The smart city discourse has gained increasing popularity within contemporary cities across the globe, mobilizing powerful economic actors and hegemonic public-private coalitions. This article argues that, in spite of the common wisdom within critical urban scholarship looking at the smart city as a policy framework aligned with the interests of powerful private and public actors such as multinational corporations and the state, the smart city model of local economic regeneration and governance goes beyond this, nurturing a process of capitalist variegation, which comprises multinational high-tech firms but is not limited to them. Thanks to its adaptability, the smart city narrative can be applied to a variety of strategies of economic revitalization, as showed by the case of Turin in Italy analysed here: a constellation of initiatives including start-up innovative firms, infrastructure projects and the social economy. The article argues that this variegated economics of the smart city offers still unexplored opportunities for a 'potential politics' of smart urbanism, aimed at appropriating the gains of technology for a future of urban social justice.EXTRACTO El discurso sobre las ciudades inteligentes es cada vez más habitual en las ciudades actuales de todo el mundo, y es capaz de movilizar a poderosos actores económicos y coaliciones hegemónicas entre el sector público y privado. En este artículo se argumenta que, pese a la idea compartida en la crítica erudición urbana donde se considera que la ciudad inteligente es un marco político alineado con los intereses de poderosos actores públicos y privados, tales como las corporaciones multinacionales y el Estado, el modelo de la ciudad inteligente para la regeneración y gobernanza económicas locales va más lejos, alimentando un proceso de multiplicidad capitalista que consta de empresas multinacionales de alta tecnología sin limitarse a ellas. Gracias a su adaptabilidad, la narrativa de la ciudad inteligente puede aplicarse a un abanico de estrategias de revitalización económica, tal como se muestra en el caso de Turín, Italia, que se analiza aquí: un conjunto de iniciativas que incluyen la creación de empresas innovadoras, proyectos de infraestructura y la economía social. En el artículo se argumenta que esta economía variada de la ciudad inteligente ofrece oportunidades todavía sin explorar para una "política del potencial" de urbanismo inteligente, cuya finalidad es apropiarse de las ganancias de la tecnología para un futuro de justicia social urbana. 以及社会经济。本文主张，智慧城市的多样经济，为智慧城市主义的"潜在政治"，提供了仍未被探索的机会，旨在运用科技的获益，创造城市社会公义的未来。 RÉSUMÉ Le discours au sujet de la ville intelligente a prêté de plus en plus d'attention au sein des villes contemporaines partout dans le monde, mobilisant des acteurs économiques puissants et des coalitions public-privé hégémoniques. Cet article affirme que, malgré les idées reçues dans la recherche critique en science urbaine qui considère la ville intelligente comme un cadre de politique aligné sur les intérêts des acteurs privé...

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Capitalist diversity and diversity within capitalism

Cited by 153 publications

References 32 publications

Establishments’ use of temporary agency workers: the influence of institutions and establishments’ employment strategies

Establishments’ use of temporary agency workers: the influence of institutions and establishments’ employment strategies

Corporate Governance Regimes and Employment Relations in Europe

The Variegated Economics and the Potential Politics of the Smart City

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