Globalization, Production Networks, and National Models of Capitalism – On the Possibilities of New Productive Systems and Institutional Diversity in an Enlarging Europe

Scientists from the Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut (SOFI) at Göttingen and from the Industrial Performance Center(IPC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Cambridge, Ma. start a joint research project on the impactof reorganization and relocation decisions of firms on the diversity of national models of capitalism. The project isfunded by the Volkswagen Stiftung in its programme on „Global Structures and Governance“. This essay outlines thestarting point of the joint venture.