“…Since depending on institutional factors such as income distribution patterns, rules, norms and dominant ideologies, different combinations of a company's strategy, as well as its production models and organizational architectures, need to be coherent in order to support firm-level competitiveness (Guillen, 1994; Guzman, 2000;Boyer and Freyssenet, 2000), how do specific contextual conditions impact on the process of organizational and production re-structuring? And how do firms strategies, organizational architectures and production best practices are adapted to existing (and non Whitley, 2000) that enables a multi-dimepsional examination of macro-and meso-contextual factors such as employment practices, work systems, and types of dominant firm that influence both production and organizational practices (Guillen, 1994;Lindberg, Voss, Blackmon, t998).…”