Philip Manow
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198297567
- eISBN:
- 9780191600104
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198297564.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This is the second of three chapters on the role of economic interests, and of systems for representing those interests, in the politics of welfare state reform. They explore the linkages between ...
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This is the second of three chapters on the role of economic interests, and of systems for representing those interests, in the politics of welfare state reform. They explore the linkages between national welfare states and national economies, and examine the processes through which economic actors press their interests on policy makers. Section 1 of Manow's chapter offers a critical account of contributions that predict the formation of new political coalitions along the cleavage line between those firms and workers that are forced to adjust to international market pressures and those that enjoy domestic shelter from globalized markets; a brief discussion is included of the relative importance of the electorate in current welfare reforms as compared with the role played by organized interests of capital and labour. Section 2 presents a transaction cost argument that seeks to identify one central logic linking production and protection in continental welfare states and coordinated market economies, respectively; the central argument is that generous welfare state programmes may enhance and not diminish international competitiveness and can be part of the comparative institutional advantage of an economy rather than solely contributing to its comparative cost disadvantage. Section 3 concludes by briefly discussing the implications of the argument presented in Sect. 2 for the present debate on the compensatory role of the welfare state in a globalized economy.Less
This is the second of three chapters on the role of economic interests, and of systems for representing those interests, in the politics of welfare state reform. They explore the linkages between national welfare states and national economies, and examine the processes through which economic actors press their interests on policy makers. Section 1 of Manow's chapter offers a critical account of contributions that predict the formation of new political coalitions along the cleavage line between those firms and workers that are forced to adjust to international market pressures and those that enjoy domestic shelter from globalized markets; a brief discussion is included of the relative importance of the electorate in current welfare reforms as compared with the role played by organized interests of capital and labour. Section 2 presents a transaction cost argument that seeks to identify one central logic linking production and protection in continental welfare states and coordinated market economies, respectively; the central argument is that generous welfare state programmes may enhance and not diminish international competitiveness and can be part of the comparative institutional advantage of an economy rather than solely contributing to its comparative cost disadvantage. Section 3 concludes by briefly discussing the implications of the argument presented in Sect. 2 for the present debate on the compensatory role of the welfare state in a globalized economy.
Kent Jones
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195166163
- eISBN:
- 9780199849819
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195166163.003.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic Systems
Work on this study began as an answer to the protesters at the December 1999 WTO ministerial meeting in Seattle, who challenged the current institutional model of an interdependent, globalized ...
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Work on this study began as an answer to the protesters at the December 1999 WTO ministerial meeting in Seattle, who challenged the current institutional model of an interdependent, globalized economy. The WTO skeptics are in principle concerned about the impact of globalized markets on their jobs and the state of the world, and they question the role of the WTO in a world of multidimensional issues and problems. Much of the fear is associated with the uncertainties of change, as markets expand, competition supplants existing companies and jobs, and the profit motive sparks a supposed race to the bottom in terms of environmental regulations and wage rates. Avoiding the economically destructive consequences of terrorism and of other sources of international conflict will require a firm and viable global trading system. Ultimately, clarifying the extent of WTO's power—what it can and cannot do—will help to put the larger issues and conflicts into perspective.Less
Work on this study began as an answer to the protesters at the December 1999 WTO ministerial meeting in Seattle, who challenged the current institutional model of an interdependent, globalized economy. The WTO skeptics are in principle concerned about the impact of globalized markets on their jobs and the state of the world, and they question the role of the WTO in a world of multidimensional issues and problems. Much of the fear is associated with the uncertainties of change, as markets expand, competition supplants existing companies and jobs, and the profit motive sparks a supposed race to the bottom in terms of environmental regulations and wage rates. Avoiding the economically destructive consequences of terrorism and of other sources of international conflict will require a firm and viable global trading system. Ultimately, clarifying the extent of WTO's power—what it can and cannot do—will help to put the larger issues and conflicts into perspective.
Alex Balch
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719080722
- eISBN:
- 9781781701805
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719080722.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
Labour migration has become one of the hot topics in Europe, especially since 2000 with the shift from restriction to managed migration. This book provides an account of policy change over labour ...
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Labour migration has become one of the hot topics in Europe, especially since 2000 with the shift from restriction to managed migration. This book provides an account of policy change over labour migration in Europe during this new era of governance. It has implications for debates about the contemporary governance of labour migration in Europe, and questions about the impact of an emergent EU migration regime in the context of a globalising labour market. The key findings offer a deeper understanding of the linkages between those engaged in policymaking and the kinds of communities that produce usable knowledge.Less
Labour migration has become one of the hot topics in Europe, especially since 2000 with the shift from restriction to managed migration. This book provides an account of policy change over labour migration in Europe during this new era of governance. It has implications for debates about the contemporary governance of labour migration in Europe, and questions about the impact of an emergent EU migration regime in the context of a globalising labour market. The key findings offer a deeper understanding of the linkages between those engaged in policymaking and the kinds of communities that produce usable knowledge.
Anne Sigismund Huff, Kathrin M. Moslein, and Ralf Reichwald (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262018494
- eISBN:
- 9780262312455
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262018494.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Knowledge Management
In today’s competitive globalized market, firms are increasingly reaching beyond conventional internal methods of research and development to use ideas developed through processes of open innovation ...
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In today’s competitive globalized market, firms are increasingly reaching beyond conventional internal methods of research and development to use ideas developed through processes of open innovation (OI). Organizations including Siemens, Nokia, Wikipedia, Hyve, and innosabi may launch elaborate OI initiatives, actively seeking partners to help them innovate in specific areas. Individuals affiliated by common interests rather than institutional ties use OI to develop new products, services, and solutions to meet unmet needs. This book describes the ways that OI expands the space for innovation, describing a range of OI practices, participants, and trends. The contributors come from practice and academe, and reflect international, cross-sector, and transdisciplinary perspectives. They report on a variety of OI initiatives, offer theoretical frameworks, and consider new arenas for OI from manufacturing to education.Less
In today’s competitive globalized market, firms are increasingly reaching beyond conventional internal methods of research and development to use ideas developed through processes of open innovation (OI). Organizations including Siemens, Nokia, Wikipedia, Hyve, and innosabi may launch elaborate OI initiatives, actively seeking partners to help them innovate in specific areas. Individuals affiliated by common interests rather than institutional ties use OI to develop new products, services, and solutions to meet unmet needs. This book describes the ways that OI expands the space for innovation, describing a range of OI practices, participants, and trends. The contributors come from practice and academe, and reflect international, cross-sector, and transdisciplinary perspectives. They report on a variety of OI initiatives, offer theoretical frameworks, and consider new arenas for OI from manufacturing to education.
Virginia R. Domínguez and Jane C. Desmond (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040832
- eISBN:
- 9780252099335
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040832.003.0031
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
This essay is a response to Amy Spellacy’s contribution in this book, Global Perspectives on the United States. While he largely concurs with Spellacy, Ibarra wonders about the persistence of Coca ...
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This essay is a response to Amy Spellacy’s contribution in this book, Global Perspectives on the United States. While he largely concurs with Spellacy, Ibarra wonders about the persistence of Coca Cola as an iconic symbol of “America” in this period of ever-expanding global capitalism. He offers some hypotheses, too, about new ways that Coca Cola ads may be contributing to the current form of U.S. cultural hegemony. Highlighted among these is Ibarra’s idea that Coca Cola’s current messages focusing on diversity of national and ethnic groups may well work with their globalized market interests, and hence that they may display less marked racial and social differentiation than Spellacy found in the 1940s and 1950s ads. Ibarra argues that the contemporary images in Coca Cola ads are more visually egalitarian, but that seemingly successful individuals predominate, thereby imposing mainstream (middle class?) U.S. cultural values, nonetheless. The essay concludes that Coca Cola still functions as a cultural product available to everyone, epitomizing “America” and its values, and that it therefore materially contributes in profound ways to the rise of a new powerful U.S. around the planet.Less
This essay is a response to Amy Spellacy’s contribution in this book, Global Perspectives on the United States. While he largely concurs with Spellacy, Ibarra wonders about the persistence of Coca Cola as an iconic symbol of “America” in this period of ever-expanding global capitalism. He offers some hypotheses, too, about new ways that Coca Cola ads may be contributing to the current form of U.S. cultural hegemony. Highlighted among these is Ibarra’s idea that Coca Cola’s current messages focusing on diversity of national and ethnic groups may well work with their globalized market interests, and hence that they may display less marked racial and social differentiation than Spellacy found in the 1940s and 1950s ads. Ibarra argues that the contemporary images in Coca Cola ads are more visually egalitarian, but that seemingly successful individuals predominate, thereby imposing mainstream (middle class?) U.S. cultural values, nonetheless. The essay concludes that Coca Cola still functions as a cultural product available to everyone, epitomizing “America” and its values, and that it therefore materially contributes in profound ways to the rise of a new powerful U.S. around the planet.
Frederik Tell, Christian Berggren, Stefano Brusoni, and Andrew Van de Ven
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198785972
- eISBN:
- 9780191831621
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198785972.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Knowledge Management
The increasing specialization of knowledge is a defining feature of the global economy and creates opportunities for efficiency gains and economic growth. However, as knowledge becomes more ...
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The increasing specialization of knowledge is a defining feature of the global economy and creates opportunities for efficiency gains and economic growth. However, as knowledge becomes more specialized, the need for integration of specialized knowledge also increases. At the same time, knowledge integration—the purposeful combination of specialized and complementary knowledge to achieve specific tasks—is becoming increasingly important for organizations facing rapidly changing institutional environments, globalized markets, and fast-paced technological developments. The increasing complexity and relevance of the knowledge integration problem is apparent in emerging new fields of research, such as open innovation, or the merging of existing ones, for example organizational learning and strategy. In global competition, the successful management of knowledge integration underpins firms’ ability to innovate, generate profit, grow, and, ultimately, survive. This book provides conceptual contributions as well as empirical studies that examine knowledge integration essentially as a ‘boundary’ problem. It puts forward a consistent set of ideas, methods, and tools useful to interpret, analyse, and act upon the processes of knowledge integration across boundaries. This book addresses the challenges associated with how knowledge integration can be managed across boundaries. It offers analyses of key concepts such as knowledge boundaries, boundary objects, trans-specialist understanding, boundary spanning, absorptive capacity, and knowledge creation in relation to knowledge integration. It also provides rich empirical descriptions of knowledge integration across boundaries at different organizational levels of analyses in a range of settings and industries.Less
The increasing specialization of knowledge is a defining feature of the global economy and creates opportunities for efficiency gains and economic growth. However, as knowledge becomes more specialized, the need for integration of specialized knowledge also increases. At the same time, knowledge integration—the purposeful combination of specialized and complementary knowledge to achieve specific tasks—is becoming increasingly important for organizations facing rapidly changing institutional environments, globalized markets, and fast-paced technological developments. The increasing complexity and relevance of the knowledge integration problem is apparent in emerging new fields of research, such as open innovation, or the merging of existing ones, for example organizational learning and strategy. In global competition, the successful management of knowledge integration underpins firms’ ability to innovate, generate profit, grow, and, ultimately, survive. This book provides conceptual contributions as well as empirical studies that examine knowledge integration essentially as a ‘boundary’ problem. It puts forward a consistent set of ideas, methods, and tools useful to interpret, analyse, and act upon the processes of knowledge integration across boundaries. This book addresses the challenges associated with how knowledge integration can be managed across boundaries. It offers analyses of key concepts such as knowledge boundaries, boundary objects, trans-specialist understanding, boundary spanning, absorptive capacity, and knowledge creation in relation to knowledge integration. It also provides rich empirical descriptions of knowledge integration across boundaries at different organizational levels of analyses in a range of settings and industries.
