Dieser Beitrag behandelt die institutionellen Voraussetzungen des deutschen im Vergleich zum angelsächsischen Innovationsmodell. Es stellt sich die Frage, weshalb die deutsche Industrie trotz wirtschaftlicher Bedingungen, die aus Sicht der konventionellen ökonomischen Theorie...

Although the operation of national coordinated wage-bargaining systems in EMU has produced low inflation rates, EMU-wide inflation has been above the ECB target rate for the last 3 years. By contrast, under the ERM, inflation rates declined steadily after 1992 to below 2 per cent in both the...

This paper examines different levels of wage moderation in EMU member states since the introduction of the euro. Most arguments examining wage restraint have done so relying on the assumptions that relations between EMU member states are symmetric and that wage-setting systems are similar across...

During the 1990s, wage setting increasingly became coordinated in many Member States of the European Union (EU), often through new arrangements involving broad encompassing social pacts between employers, trade unions, and governments striking deals across policy areas from wages to social and...

This paper discusses the introduction and implementation of ISO 9000 qualitystandards in the German and French car industry. Rather than a transfer of a set ofconcrete, well-understood rules, which are ready to be implemented, the paperargues, the quality standards have to be reconstructed and...

This paper discusses finance problems of small firms. Since small firms and banks belong to different economic worlds, as a result of which information assymetries emerge, credit rationing leads to sub-optimal financing arrangements. The paper analyses institutional solutions to these...

Vertreter einer einflußreichen Argumentationsrichtung in der neueren Forschungüber die industrielle Reorganisation in modernen Industriegesellschaften sehen imAufbau zwischenbetrieblicher Vertrauensstrukturen und im relational contracting mögliche Wege, die betriebliche Organisation an die...