Intro -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Theoretical Frame of Reference and Analytical Approach -- 1.1 Policy Network Analysis as Frame of Reference -- 1.2 Sets of Variables in the National/European Context and in International Comparison -- 1.3 Procedure -- 2 Regulatory...

Intro -- Preface -- 1 The Dialectics of Work and Welfare -- 2 Early Retirement: Stability, Reversal, or Redefinition -- 3 The Netherlands: The Loreley-Effect of Early Exit -- 4 Germany: The Concerted Transition from Work to Welfare -- 5 Sweden: Policy Dilemmas of the Changing Age Structure in a...

Intro -- Introduction -- Who Should Learn What? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Homo Sovieticus -- 3 Managers and Post-Socialist Enterprises -- 4 Elites, Citizens, Working People, and Institutional Reconstruction -- 5 Modernization: Projects and Processes -- 6 Social Change and Modernization: Lessons...

Intro -- Introduction. Reworking the World: Organisations, Technologies and Cultures in Comparative Perspective -- Section One: Re-Analysing the World -- Introduction -- Institutional Logic and Economic Explanation -- French Bread, Italian Fashions and Asian Enterprises: Modern Passions and...

Intro -- Introduction: Privatising the World? -- Part I. International Privatisation Policy -- Chapter 1. The Internationalisation of Privatisation -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Growth of Public Ownership -- 1.3 The Challenge to Public Ownership -- 1.4 Explaining the Spread of Privatisation:...

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Business Groups and Economic Development -- Part One. Chinese Business Networks: A Comparative View -- Introduction -- A. General Perspectives -- Chinese Entrepreneurs and Business Trust -- Types of Trust -- System Trust -- Personal Trust --...