The purpose of this study is to identify key institutional determinants of firm emergence and growth. We do this using various types of data from Sweden. A characterization of a number of institutions and policy measures shows that they are likely to have contributed to an environment that...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in Journal of Asia Pacific Economy, published by and copyright Routledge.

The "changing architecture" of European big business is significant in that it challenges traditional forms of industrial collective action in Europe. The creation of European-level big business organisations has allowed large companies to bypass long-established European as well as national...

This paper challenges the idea that the US economy has corresponded to a laissez-faire model. Broadly speaking, this lack of fit between the model and empirical reality results from ideology and culture. Liberalism has been and is a cornerstone of American identity. But the discursive practice...

This paper considers whether US and European trade and industrial policies are in a process of ‘convergence’ around common policy type. Convergence is once again appearing in politics journals after a period of relative neglect. Convergence--the process by which economic activity in states...

The "changing architecture" of European big business is significant in that it challenges traditional forms of industrial collective action in Europe. The creation of European-level big business organisations has allowed large companies to bypass long-established European as well as national...

[From the Introduction]. In light of these challenges that face EU policy makers, this paper attempts to address two fundamental questions: What is innovation? And what kind of policy is best suited for the job − one anchored in competition policy or industrial policy? Evaluation of the EU’s...

This paper challenges the idea that the US economy has corresponded to a laissez-faire model. Broadly speaking, this lack of fit between the model and empirical reality results from ideology and culture. Liberalism has been and is a cornerstone of American identity. But the discursive practice...

This paper considers whether US and European trade and industrial policies are in a process of ‘convergence’ around common policy type. Convergence is once again appearing in politics journals after a period of relative neglect. Convergence--the process by which economic activity in states...

Given the theoretical presumption of most institutionalist approaches based on the Coase-theorem that institutions contribute to cooperation and thus to problem solving beyond the hierarchical coordination of the nation state, the question comes up whether this assumption proves true empirically...