Skills and the Limits of Neo-Liberalism: The Enterprise of the Future as a                 Place of Learning

Streeck, Wolfgang

doi:10.1177/0950017089003001006

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“…Here, the UK and Germany provide an interesting contrast in this respect because of differences in the nature of innovation activity in the two countries (Finegold and Wagner, 1998;Herrigel, 1996), and because of the marked institutional and organizational contrasts between the two countries 3 . The German innovation and production system, for example, has been characterised as having a focus on diversified quality production (DQP), involving the incremental customisation of products rather than mass production or products derived from radical innovation (Streeck, 1989). By contrast, the UK innovation and production system has been characterised by its dependency on fickle capital markets, short-term business objectives and a more opportunistic (or entrepreneurial) approach to innovation (Roper, 1997;Dore et al, 1999).…”

Section: Knowledge Sourcing and Innovationmentioning

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Organizing the Innovation Process: Complementarities in Innovation Networking

Love

Roper

2009

Industry and Innovation

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This paper contributes to the developing literature on complementarities in organizational design. We test for the existence of complementarities in the use of external networking between stages of the innovation process in a sample of UK and German manufacturing plants. Our evidence suggests some differences between the UK and Germany in terms of the optimal combination of innovation activities in which to implement external networking. Broadly, there is more evidence of complementarities in the case of Germany, with the exception of the product engineering stage. By contrast, the UK exhibits generally strong evidence of substitutability in external networking in different stages, except between the identification of new products and product design and development stages. These findings suggest that previous studies indicating strong complementarity between internal and external knowledge sources have provided only part of the picture of the strategic dilemmas facing firms.

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Section: Knowledge Sourcing and Innovationmentioning

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Organizing the Innovation Process: Complementarities in Innovation Networking

Love

Roper

2009

Industry and Innovation

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“…The debate on Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) played a crucial role in raising the interest of main--stream political science in topics such as the political economy of skills and training (Culpepper 2003;Finegold/Soskice 1988;Streeck 1989;Thelen 2004). A few contributions recognize the importance of the connection between skill formation regimes and the welfare state (Busemeyer/Nikolai 2010;Estévez--Abe et al 2001;Iversen/Stephens 2008), but the exact nature of the causal mechanisms linking these two areas is still unexplored.…”

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The politics of opting out: explaining educational financing and popular support for public spending

Busemeyer

Iversen

2014

Socio-Economic Review

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Abstract:In this paper, we address two empirical puzzles: Why are cross--country differences in the division of labor between public and private education funding so large, and why are they politically sustainable in the long term? We argue that electoral institutions play a crucial role in shaping politico--economic distributive coalitions that affected the original division of labor in education financing. In PR systems, the lower and middle classes formed a coalition supporting the establishment of a system with a large share of public funding. In majoritarian systems, in contrast, the middle class voters aligned with the upper income class and support private education spending instead. Once established, institutional arrangements create feedback effects on the micro--level of attitudes, reinforcing political support even among upper--middle classes in public systems. These hypotheses are tested empirically both on the micro level of preferences as well as on the macro level with aggregate data and survey data from the ISSP for 20 OECD countries.

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“…The German innovation and production system is often characterised as having a focus on diversified quality production (DQP), involving the incremental customisation of products rather than mass production or products derived from radical innovation (Streeck, 1989). "The resulting pattern of innovation is one that is more likely to generate improvements of existing products and sectors than to give rise to new sectors.…”

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The organisation of innovation: collaboration, cooperation and multifunctional groups in UK and German manufacturing

Love¹,

Roper²

2004

Cambridge Journal of Economics

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Abstract:Marked differences exist between the institutional and social context for innovation in the UK and Germany. The question addressed here is how these different contexts impact on the objectives and organisation of innovation in UK and German manufacturing. In particular, we examine the extent to which UK and German plants engage in inter-plant collaboration and co-operation and multifunctional working as part of their innovative activity, and explore the reasons for differences in these patterns of involvement. The investigation is based on a large-scale, comparative survey of manufacturing plants in the two countries In Germany, institutional and social norms are found to encourage collaborative interplant innovation but aspects of the German skills training and industrial relations systems make the adoption of more flexible internal systems more difficult. In the UK on the other hand, the more adversarial nature of inter-firm relations makes it more difficult to establish external collaborations based on mutual trust, but less restrictive labour market structures make it easier for UK plants to adopt multifunctional working. This is linked to differences in attitudes to the property rights and transaction cost problems inherent in innovation.

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Skills and the Limits of Neo-Liberalism: The Enterprise of the Future as a Place of Learning

Cited by 290 publications

References 1 publication

Organizing the Innovation Process: Complementarities in Innovation Networking

Organizing the Innovation Process: Complementarities in Innovation Networking

The politics of opting out: explaining educational financing and popular support for public spending

The organisation of innovation: collaboration, cooperation and multifunctional groups in UK and German manufacturing

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