Private equity has rapidly entered the health care sector, expanding its investment targets from hospitals and nursing facilities to physician practices. The incursion of private equity is the latest manifestation of a long trend toward the corporatization and financialization of medicine....

We combine two economic/political concepts to explain how U. S. crony corporatism is linked to the recent evidence of increased vertical integration in global value chains. (Mapping Global Value Chains, ECB Working Paper No. 1677, Koen de Backer, S. Miroudot, SSRN, 2014.).We conclude that the...

Between 2000 and 2020, the share of US bed capacity at independent hospitals dropped from 42% to 19% – a rapid corporatization of care. We study whether this restructuring of the industry in favor of larger firms improved hospital profitability and quality. We combine novel, patient-level data...

This chapter encourages readers to think of agricultural communities in the era of climate change-induced droughts and population growth similar to when western Pennsylvania’s steel industry collapsed in the 1980s. If water must flow uphill to money, it should not leave a dust bowl behind....

The instability of liberal democracies both in Europe and in the Americans partly brought about by the COVID-19 Pandemic has shown the limits of this construct in terms of protecting the core values of liberalism itself, such as freedom of speech and the protection of private property. Riots in...

The current country wide protest by Farmers in India against the unjustifiable laws passed by current Government in power in India. How a strategic approach to bring in natural death to the sector and many other similar areas is being engineered with mindless and reckless corporatization and...

This chapter examines the employment discrimination protections in Sweden under its two faces, namely the law in books and the law in action. Access to justice, or the lack thereof, is argued to be a major reason for the law not being given significant effect by the courts, as well as in the...

The modern stakeholder movement in the U.S. is arguably an attempt to import European corporatism into U.S. corporate practice and public policy. Hence, it is useful to ask (i) do European firms really invest in stakeholder welfare; and (ii) are such investments accomplished at the cost of lower...

The political theory focus of this paper is the relevance of corporatism to meet the nationalist backlash against the increasing global interdependence that elites encouraged through neoliberal strategies. The paper analyzes the Trump administration’s resistance to international cooperation to...

Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to pay hikes. Pay increases, however, can influence labor productivity. But what about in a corporatist economy? Focusing on Germany, we use an innovative technique developed by Geweke to disentangle the relationship between pay and...

Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to hikes in real pay. Efficiency wage theory hypothesizes that pay increases can lead to productivity improvements. But would such results be observed in a corporatist economy with centralized bargaining? For the case of Austria, a...

This paper revisits the notions of contract and status found in classical sociology, legal theory, and labour law. Adopting an historical perspective, it explores the fragmentation of the status of industrial citizenship during the neoliberal period and discusses the enduring usefulness of the...

The aim of this paper is to shed light on the paths, directions, and ensuing degrees of technological adoption fostered by trade unions or, alternatively, forms of resistance thereof, in the so called 'Italian Motor-Valley', a distinctive technological district located in the outskirts of...

Purpose Doctors' labour and medicines are special necessities for human survival and evolution. Since China launched the healthcare reform, the theoretical circles' discussions have not yet clarified the respective special properties of doctors' labour and medicines as goods and the internal...

This paper revisits the notions of contract and status found in classical sociology, legal theory, and labour law. Adopting an historical perspective, it explores the fragmentation of the status of industrial citizenship during the neoliberal period and discusses the enduring usefulness of the...

Research on environmental governance in China has shown that centre–local relations often influence the implementation and efficacy of environmental regulations. By examining changes in resource allocation and rural development between 1982 and 2005 in the region worst affected by...

Since 1949, China has tried a large number of successful and not-so-successful corporatist experiments. What these phases have in common is a ‘state corporatist' (top-down) approach, albeit with shifting degrees of state involvement; and in the present era, a snail's pace effort towards...

Introduction : studying social concertation in Europe / Bernhard Ebbinghaus and J. Timo Weishaupt -- Social concertation in Europe during the great recession : exploring when governments include social partners in crisis management / Benedikt Bender and Bernhard Ebbinghaus -- Back to the future...

Introduction. A catastrophic event -- Part I. Municipalization (1955-1990) -- Corporatization (1991-present) -- Part II. Decommodification -- Unaffordable water -- Heterogeneous water(s) -- Part III. Potentials and limits -- Unruly water -- Conclusion.

Problem Definition: Online short-term house rental platforms, which traditionally matched individual owners with individual customers (P2P), has recently experienced an influx of corporate players on the supply side controlling multiple assets. Our goal is to understand the implications of this...

During the 30s in France the debate on the "third way" was particularly intense. The efforts to develop an alternative to liberal capitalism and socialism involved two main different solutions: planning and corporatism that often overlapped; moreover both of them were imbued with some elements of...

This study attempts to link between the current impacts of zakat institutions (ZIs) activities and programs under all 14 states in Malaysia with maqasid shariah and sustainable development goals (SDGs). Besides, this study also compares these impacts between corporatize and non-corporatize ZIs...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the changing impact of corporatism - cooperation between business, labour and state interest groups - over the period 1960-2010 and across industrialised economies on the development of the share of labour in national income. Also due to data issues this...