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Globalization And Institutions
Redefining the Rules of the Economic Game

Edited by Marie-Laure Djelic, Professor, Department of Management, ESSEC Business School, Cergy, France and Sigrid Quack, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany
2003 368 pp Hardback 978 1 84064 975 8 £79.95 on-line discount £71.96
2004 368 pp Paperback 978 1 84376 853 1 £35.00 on-line discount £28.00

‘This valuable edited volume will move forward the debate on national business systems/varieties of capitalism in the context of globalization and provide new directions for it. Both in its persuasive theoretical sections and in its empirical chapters, the work shifts our focus to the transnational space and its interaction with national and sub-national levels. It moves away from a determinist institutionalist analysis and puts more emphasis on actors at sub-national level and their contribution to a complex and multi-directional process of non-linear change. The volume is particularly preoccupied with rule-making at the transnational level and the impact of new rules on national institutions. In contrast to many conference volumes, this one excels through a genuine integration of theory with empirical chapters and through a selection of authors who all tackle new and highly topical aspects of economic globalization.’
– Christel Lane, University of Cambridge and St John’s College, Cambridge, UK

‘The rapid rise of supra-national institutions, in Europe and worldwide, has had a great impact on the ways business organizes and operates. New rules and regulations, professions, organizations, and models arise and become established. They provide new uncertainties and opportunities, but in any case greatly change the conditions businesses confront. Marie-Laure Djelic and Sigrid Quack have put together a set of most impressive studies analyzing the whole process as it occurs in different economic sectors, and have presented these in a conceptual frame that helps the reader make sense of them. The studies here focus on the two main issues at hand in globalization or Europeanization. They analyze the rise, nature, and spread of the new institutional systems. And they analyze the impact of these systems on formerly-national businesses and economic arrangements. Readers concerned with the impact of globalization and the new Europe on business and economic organization will find the studies here invaluable.’
– John Meyer, Stanford University, US

This volume investigates the relationship between economic globalization and institutions, or global governance, challenging the common assumption that globalization and institutionalization are essentially processes which exclude each other. Instead, the contributors to this book show that globalization is better perceived as a dual process of institutional change at the national level, and institution building at the transnational level. Rich, supporting empirical evidence is provided along with a theoretical conceptualisation of the main actors, mechanisms and conditions involved in trickle-up and trickle-down trajectories through which national institutional systems are being transformed and transnational rules emerge.

Contents: Introduction: Governing Globalization – Bringing Institutions Back In Part I: Globalization and National Institutional Change Part II: Globalization and Transnational Institution Building Conclusion: Globalization as a Double Process of Institutional Change and Institution Building Index Contributors: A. Ainamo, J. Ali-Yrkkö, J. Bensedrine, M.T. Dacin, M.-L. Djelic, M. Huolman, T. Kleiner, D. Lehmkuhl, K. Lilja, C. McKenna, J. McNichol, A. Midttun, E. Moen, T. Omland, D. Plehwe, M. Pulkkinen, A. Rupérez Micola, S. Quack, D. Szyliowicz, R. Tainio, M.J. Ventresca, S. Vescovi, R. Whitley, P. Ylä-Anttila
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This book is part of the New Horizons in Institutional and Evolutionary Economics series. To view the rest of the series, please use the link.

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