This paper offers an explanation for variations in the effectiveness of trade unions to obtain legislative and policy concessions in peak-level tripartite negotiations in post-communist East Central Europe. I examine the usefulness of some standard interpretations for such variations, namely...

The institutional governance approach sees national economies embedded in a bundle of non-market types of coordination (e.g. corporate hierarchies, networks, associations and the state). Governance oriented research explores configurations of governance types in sectoral, regional and national...

Presented at a workshop at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, this document explores the logistical solutions deployed within contemporary Hawala-style value transmission systems. It suggests that those frustrated by the lack of an effective global payments system for retial...