How National are Business Systems? The Role of Different State Types and Complementary Institutions in Constructing Homogenous Systems of Economic Coordination and Control

A central tenet of economic sociology is that culture and regulatory institutions help to constitute the nature of economic actors and guide their actions, thus affecting economic outcomes (see, e.g., DiMaggio, 1994; Smelser and Swedberg, 1994). As socially organised agents operating in different kinds of societal contexts, firms and other actors are inevitably affected by the dominant norms and conventions governing the formation of groups and how competition and collaboration between them is to be structured....