Purpose: This paper investigates the factors responsible for the emergence of different arrangements of state-society relations. Being concerned with the relations related to the industrial sector, this study focuses more on state-business-labor relations (SBLRs), especially on power dynamics...

Purpose - This paper investigates the effect of state-society relations on the industrially-related growth paths of developed countries. Design/methodology/approach - It introduces a novel theoretical framework, the state-business-labor relations (SBLR) framework, where four main actors are...