Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness

Sensemaking in Institutional Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-967874-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 470 g

How do countries create and replicate socio-economic success? This book argues that success comes from how people make sense of their institutions when they are placed under stress. When institutional frameworks are challenged, a range of agents engaged in sensemaking processes that invoke certain identities on 'who we are', contain normative claims about 'how things should be', and involve strategies on 'how to get there'. Sensemaking about the future and the past is crucial to institutional competitiveness and includes prospective and retrospective points of departure, as well as focusing on developing abstract causes of change or replicating success from previous experience.

This book brings together a range of world-class scholars from Comparative Political Economy, Institutional Theory, and Organizational Sociology to discuss how sensemaking processes create institutional change. The contributors investigate a range of cases that cover different institutions linked to competitiveness, including labour, public management, think tanks, firms, innovation policies, tax and housing policies, and welfare systems. With a strong focus on the Nordic experience and comparisons with advanced industrialized economies, this volume provides an innovative and original framework for understanding institutional change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borrás, Susana

Seabrooke, Leonard

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Susana Borrás and Leonard Seabrooke: Introduction: Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness. Sense-Making in Institutional Change

- 2: John L. Campbell and Ove Kaj Pedersen: Making Sense of Economic Uncertainty: Knowledge Regimes in the United States and Denmark

- 3: Peer Hull Kristensen: Productive Enterprise In Search Of A Regime - Moving Sensemaking from Past Phantom Communities to "Ends In Sight"

- 4: Susana Borrás: Reforms of National Innovation Policies in Europe: Coordinating Sensemaking across Countries

- 5: Carsten Greve: Sensemaking in Public Management Reform in Denmark

- 6: Søren Kaj Andersen: Making Sense of Change and No Change in Employment Policies

- 7: Leonard Seabrooke: Making Sense of Generational Change and Institutional Competitiveness

- 8: Robert Boyer: How has Institutional Competitiveness Emerged out of the Complementarity between Nordic Welfare and Innovation Systems?

- 9: Susana Borrás, Leonard Seabrooke, and Vivien Schmidt: Conclusions: Sensemaking and Institutional Change in Comparative Capitalisms

Über Autor(innen)

Susana Borrás is Professor in Governance and Innovation and the Head of the Department of Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School.; Leonard Seabrooke is Professor in International Political Economy in the Department of Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School, and the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick;