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Formation of the theoretical framework for the comparative analysis of post-socialist countries
The beginning of the 90s was accompanied by revolutionary changes in the world economy. Newly created incentives for the comparative economics/economy were tackling, inter alia, the post-socialist countries, that were already exposed to the ...
Eva CIHELKOVA
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THE GERMAN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION SYSTEM: INSTITUTIONAL COMPLEMENTARITIES AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES
The goal of this study is to analyze the functioning of the skill formation regime in Germany in the light of institutional complementarities, as well as to verify the responses that the actors involved in its operation have been presenting to adapt it ...
Felipe Vella Pateo, Sandro Pereira Silva
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Ricardian political economy and the 'varieties of capitalism' approach : specialization, trade and comparative institutional advantage [PDF]
The ‘varieties of capitalism’ approach offers key insights into the institutional embeddedness of economic experiences. It performs an important function in providing a conceptual framework for empirical analyses of the way in which the economy both ...
Watson, Matthew
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The present study aims to respond to the following research question: What is the influence of the institutional context on the disclosure of carbon emission?
Alan Bandeira Pinheiro +3 more
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Regional and sectoral varieties of capitalism [PDF]
This study seeks to go beneath the generalizations that constitute characterizations of national economies in order to examine local and sectoral diversity - in particular, forms of capitalist organization at the level of localized sectors. It reports on the findings of research based on detailed case histories of local economies in four different ...
Crouch, C., Schröder, M., Voelzkow, H.
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FDI-based regional development in Central and Eastern Europe: A review and an agenda
This review article reflects on thirty years of FDI-dependent development in Central and Eastern European regions (with a special emphasis on the Visegrad countries).
Gál Zoltán, Lux Gábor
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Asian varieties of service capitalism? [PDF]
There is currently only limited empirical research and theoretical conceptualisation of the role of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) in the economies of Asia within economic geography or elsewhere in the wider social scientific literature. This paper argues that existing theoretical understandings of KIBS are inadequate to conceptualise the
Andrew Jones, Patrik Ström
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Varieties of Capitalism and Fiscal Stimulus, 2008–2010
This paper tests the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) framework to explain variation in fiscal stimulus measures across OECD countries in response to the 2008-2010 economic crisis. Following Soskice (2007), I argue that coordinated market economies are less
Toloudis Nicholas
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This investigation focuses on participation and related investment patterns in job related non-formal education (NFE) in selected European countries. Broadening previous research formats of NFE are distinguished by investment including financial and time
Katrin Kaufmann
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Institutional change in varieties of capitalism [PDF]
Contemporary approaches to varieties to capitalism are often criticized for neglecting issues of institutional change. This paper develops an approach to institutional change more extended than the one provided in Hall and Soskice (in Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001)
Hall, Peter, Thelen, K.
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