Entrepreneurial groups face a twinned challenge: recognizing new ideas and implementing them. Recent research suggests that connectivity reaching outside the group channels new ideas, while closure makes it possible to act on them. By contrast, we argue that entrepreneurship is not about...

Against the background of an observed strategic realignment of corporations in Germany towards the financial markets and the interests of shareholders, attention is also increasingly drawn to the top managers. Yet recent studies on the recruitment and career patterns of the German corporate...

European industrial relations are rapidly internationalizing; internationalization, however, is not necessarily de-nationalization. Even as European integration accelerates, national politics and industrial relations will remain the principal arenas for the social regulation of work and...

Globalisierungsprozesse erzeugen Problemlagen, die allein durch nationalstaatliche Intervention nicht mehr zu bewältigen sind. Pessimistische Szenarien schließen daraus auf ein generelles Steuerungsversagen des Nationalstaates mit der Folge einer wettbewerblichen Deregulierung von...

Der Aufsatz beginnt mit einer wohlfahrtstheoretischen Vorüberlegung. Der Systemwettbewerb schwächt die territorial begrenzte Macht des Staates gegenüber mobilem Kapital, mobilen Unternehmen und mobilen Konsumenten. Selbst wenn dadurch die Verbraucherinteressen uneingeschränkt begünstigt...

The quiet evolution of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) into a de facto decision-making body has received surprisingly little attention by integration researchers. Even less attention has been paid to the novel institutional form and underlying rationality of this forum at...

While the existence of transnational communities is increasingly recognized in globalization studies, very little is yet known about their impact on global governance. Studies investigating the role of transnational communities in international rule setting tend to specialize in specific types,...

In neueren Analysen der westeuropäischen Integration wird zunehmend auf die strukturellen Grenzen positiver Integration hingewiesen. Vor diesem Hintergrund erscheint die Analyse internationaler Umweltregime als Beispiele für positive Regelungen jenseits des Nationalstaates gewinnbringend. Bei...

Studies of the welfare state usually try to find out which factors have contributed to its ascendancy since the end of the nineteenth century and which factors explain the various approaches different countries took in providing a new social insurance to cover new social risks in industrialized...

The European Community as a social configuration, with its complex division of competencies and action capacities between EC institutions and national governments, is still difficult to conceptualize. In this context the authors propose the concept of corporate actor networks in order to...