In the 1980s, globalisation was much vaunted as offering the Western world a dazzling new array of business opportunities. In the 1990s, however, the negative impact on the labour market has become all too evident. A look at Germany’s labour statistics shows a frightening picture of massive...

Organised capitalism, as a distinct mode of political economy, is generally held to be under serious threat, not least from the apparently inexorable logic and pressures of “globalisation”. The challenge represented by these forces is intensified in Germany by the constraints imposed by the...

Much has been written recently about Germany’s prevailing economic problems, but the emphasis has been placed on globalisation, the rigidities of the labour market and various other difficulties related to Standort Deutschland. However, there are numerous problems with respect to German...

As transnational capital continues to seek fair access to all international markets and increasingly, a global level playing field, so competition policy has emerged as a highly salient issue. This article sets out specifically to explore the international dimension of competition policy....

The domestic market environment is host to complex phenomena that affect, and are affected by, the actions and activities of both exporting and non‐exporting firms. In this regard, a significant degree of research attention has been devoted to overseas competitive environments and the nature...

The UK has often looked abroad in search of a successful approach to managing the economy, e.g. lessons were taken up in the 1960s from French planning, from worker participation in Germany in the 1970s, from monetarism in the USA in the 1980s and, in the 1990s, from Japan and South East Asia,...