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The Institutional Construction of Firms

The nature and economic role of legally constituted firms varies between market economiesand changes over time. In particular, the governance of leading firms and how they developdistinctive organisational capabilities vary between institutional regimes and their supportingpolitical-economic coalitions. These characteristics can be combined to distinguish five idealtypes of firms that dominate different kinds of market economies. Institutions governing trustand authority relationships, state economic and legal policies, financial and labour marketsand skill formation systems affect the development and change of dominant kinds of firms....

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Year of publication:	2008-06-01
Authors:	Whitley, Richard
Institutions:	Manchester Business School
Subject:	Wirtschaftspolitik \| Corporate Governance \| Organisationstheorie \| organization theory \| Multinationales Unternehmen \| Internationalisierung \| internatinalization \| Politische Institution

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Extent:	259072 bytes 50 p. application/pdf
Series:	Manchester Business School - Research - Working Papers No. 555 (2008)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	Strategic management ; Multinational corporation ; Theory of organisation ; Corporate growth, plant size and choice of location ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; No country specification
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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