List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism

Peter A. Hall

David Soskice

Part I: General Themes and Diverse Applications

Varieties of Labor Politics in the Developed Democracies

Kathleen Thelen

Institutional and Sectoral Interactions in Monetary Policy and Wage/Price-Bargaining

Robert J. Franzese, Jr.

Social Protection and the Formation of Skills: A Reinterpretation of the Welfare State

Margarita Estevez-Abe

Torben Iversen

David Soskice

Firms and the Welfare State: When, Why, and How Does Social Policy Matter to Employers?

Isabela Mares

The Domestic Sources of Multilateral Preferences: Varieties of Capitalism in the European Community

Orfeo Fioretos

Part II: Case Studies in Public Policy, Continuity, and Change

Business, Government, and Patterns of Labor Market Policy in Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany

Stewart Wood

Employers, Public Policy, and the Politics of Decentralized Cooperation in Germany and France

Pepper D. Culpepper

Revisiting the French Model: Coordination and Restructing in French Industry

Bob Hancke

Part III: Corporate Governance, Firm Strategy, and the Law

Varieties of Corporate Governance: Comparing Germany and the UK

Sigurt Vitols

Macro-varieties of Capitalism and Micro-varieties of Strategic Management in European Airlines

Mark Lehrer

The Legal Framework for Corporate Governance: The Influence of Contract Law on Company Strategies in Germany and the United States

Steven Casper

Legal Irritants: How Unifying Law Ends up in New Divergences

Gunther Teubner

National Varieties of Standardization

Jay Tate

Bibliography

Index