We revisit the concept of Diversified Quality Production (DQP), which we introduced about thirty years ago. Our purpose is to examine the extent to which the concept can still be considered tenable for describing and explaining the development of the interaction between the political economy and...

Anhand einer historisch-analytischen Rekonstruktion, die nicht nur politische Interessen, Ideologien und staatliche Flankierungen, sondern auch die Geschichte der Arbeitgeber-Arbeitnehmer-Beziehungen berücksichtigt, untersucht das Papier Rolle und Funktion der Tarifpolitik im niederländischen...

Bringing together perspectives from the new economic sociology and new cultural sociology, this paper proposes that because economic phenomena are imbued with meaning they can be studied as cultural objects. In particular, the goal is to analyze the public discussions surrounding the sales of...

Path dependence as a concept in institutional theories has become increasingly popular in economics and other social sciences. The key idea is that in a sequence of events, the latter events are not (completely) independent from those that occurred in the past. Yet, common usage of the concept...

The process of wage determination is mediated by the institutional framework of the labor market. Bargaining systems differ not only in their mode of governance, but also in the way that wages are related to unemployment, inflation, and productivity growth. Based on annual data for the period...

Successful international cooperation is a puzzling problem for social scientists. The ozone layer has been subject to both international treaties and domestic leg-islation. It is one of the foremost success stories in international relations, yet insufficiently understood. In this paper I argue...

The national association of French employers and industry, MEDEF, seems to be an example of strong and unifi ed interest organization, especially since its reform in 1998. Through a study of the collective action of fi rms in France, this article sheds doubt on such an impression. In fact, a...

This essay reviews the development of approaches within the comparative capitalisms (CC) literature and points to three theoretical innovations which, taken together, define and distinguish these approaches as a group. First, national economies are characterized by distinct institutional...

I argue that in its adaptation from Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation, the concept of embeddedness has itself undergone a great transformation. In the process, significant meanings of the concept have vanished, while others have been added. First I explore the different meanings the...

The performance of the Danish economy in the 1990s has been successful to the extent that scholars are talking about a Danish miracle. The importance of government policies to Denmark's economic success is taken as a point of departure in investigating why Danish governments have been able to...