In den 1990er Jahren haben im deutschen und französischen Kreditgewerbe Restukturierungsempfehlungen international agierender Unternehmensberatungen Konjunktur. Der wohl prominenteste dieser Managementansätze firmiert unter der Bezeichnung Lean Banking und basiert auf einer vermeintlich...

Der Essay zielt auf eine kritische Bewertung des Beitrags institutionalistischer Ansätze in der sozioökonomischen Transformationsdebatte. Diese Ansätze interessieren sich für die konkreten Formen der entstehenden Kapitalismen in Osteuropa. Sie richten ihre Aufmerksamkeit auf die ererbten...

The paper documents and analyses the rise of a transnational transport and logistics' industry within the European Union. Neither a global commodity chain, nor a national business system approach is considered adequate to help comprehend trans border reorganization within the European Union...

According to the contemporary political economy literature on France, the country appears caught in the worst of all possible worlds: it fails to create the conditions for economic growth and employment by deregulating labour markets as the UK has done, and it lacks the institutional...

Mitte der neunziger Jahre erreichte die europäische Arbeitslosenquote ihren Höchststand in der Nachkriegsperiode. Hauptziel dieses Beitrags ist es, alternative beschäftigungspolitische Optionen aufzuzeigen, die sich im Kampf gegen die anhaltende Arbeitslosigkeit als konsensfähig unter den...

How will EMU influence the European political economy? This paper argues that most of the likely alternatives are unsustainable for at least some of the EMU member-states. As a result, the Stability Pact imposed by the Kohl government and the Bundesbank is likely to be rejected by other...

Fifteen years ago, Katzenstein convincingly emphasized the specific features of small European states to cope with their external environment: international liberalization, domestic compensation and flexible adjustment to fluctuations of international markets through democratic corporatist...

Can German national institutional frameworks be reconfigured to allow radical innovation in science-based industries? This paper examines the development of commercial technologies for entrepreneurial biotechnology start-up firms in Germany. During the 1980s and early 1990s an inadequate...

According to the contemporary political economy literature on France, the country appears caught in the worst of all possible worlds: it fails to create the conditions for economic growth and employment by deregulating labour markets as the UK has done, and it lacks the institutional...

In a macro-economic framework where the European Central Bank targets individual country data, the nature of strategic interactions between fiscal authorities in the euro-zone can be described as a stag hunt game with (at least) two equilibria that can be pareto-ranked. In fact we show that,...