Globalization and institutional competitiveness

@article{citeulike:2770554, abstract = {Abstract Only dead institutions do not change and only rarely do institutions change by themselves. To maintain performing institutions takes institutional entrepreneurs who are willing to take risks and who possess the capacity and the talent to innovate. A regulation discourse, in contrast to a marketization discourse, would not picture the relationship between globalization and institutional change as a deterministic one. Rather, it would expect that all kinds of actors play a large number of different roles in the course of ongoing institutional change. The result of such complex institutional change, at the level of welfare states, multinational businesses, public administration, and training systems, to mention just a few of the empirical areas covered in this special issue, cannot be fully understood by applying an overly rigid, static, and dualistic approach to modern capitalist economies. The concept of institutional competitiveness, on the contrary, allows for institutional entrepreneurship and institutional hybrids constituting pulsating polities.}, author = {Marcussen, Martin and Kaspersen, Lars B. }, citeulike-article-id = {2770554}, doi = {10.1111/j.1748-5991.2007.00014.x}, journal = {Regulation \& Governance}, keywords = {competitiveness, globalization, institution-performance}, number = {3}, pages = {183--196}, posted-at = {2008-05-08 16:34:12}, priority = {2}, title = {Globalization and institutional competitiveness}, url = {http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1748-5991.2007.00014.x}, volume = {1}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2770554 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2770554 TI - Globalization and institutional competitiveness JF - Regulation & Governance VL - 1 IS - 3 SP - 183 EP - 196 N2 - Abstract Only dead institutions do not change and only rarely do institutions change by themselves. To maintain performing institutions takes institutional entrepreneurs who are willing to take risks and who possess the capacity and the talent to innovate. A regulation discourse, in contrast to a marketization discourse, would not picture the relationship between globalization and institutional change as a deterministic one. Rather, it would expect that all kinds of actors play a large number of different roles in the course of ongoing institutional change. The result of such complex institutional change, at the level of welfare states, multinational businesses, public administration, and training systems, to mention just a few of the empirical areas covered in this special issue, cannot be fully understood by applying an overly rigid, static, and dualistic approach to modern capitalist economies. The concept of institutional competitiveness, on the contrary, allows for institutional entrepreneurship and institutional hybrids constituting pulsating polities. KW - competitiveness KW - globalization KW - institution-performance AU - Marcussen, Martin AU - Kaspersen, Lars PY - 2007/// UR - http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1748-5991.2007.00014.x ER -