"The economic crisis that began in 2008 has underscored the impact not only of embedded and assumed ways of managing the economy, but also that present circumstances are the product of a long period of experimentation and bounded diversity; it is understanding the nature of both that forms a...

This paper studies the interaction between global systems of production/innovation and national capitalisms, from the theoretical perspectives of varieties of capitalism and global value chains or global production networks (GPNs). The paper's theoretical contribution lies in two areas: it links...

1. Institutions, change, and diversity / Geoffrey T. Wood and Christel Lane -- 2. A new epoch but still diversity within and between capitalisms : China in comparative perspective / Robert Boyer -- 3. Institutional change and organizational diversity in Japan / Mari Sako and Masahiro Kotosaka --...