Varieties of Capitalism

Glenn Morgan and Heike Doering

Chapter 13 in Elgar Introduction to Theories of Human Resources and Employment Relations, 2019, pp 183-198 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The Varieties of Capitalism approach to employment relationships examines how institutional context impacts on firms’ strategies and structures. It identifies key institutions and institutional complementarities that shape firm behaviour including, as is the focus here, the production and regulation of labour. This chapter outlines how different varieties of capital differentially invest in and treat labour, with implications for the relationships between labour, its deployment within the production process, the role of skills, labour mobility and negotiation of wages and employment benefits, and different national trajectories of economic development. The chapter concludes by outlining scope for further development and emphasizing the approach as a theory of incentives and institutional complementarities, rather than a descriptive tool.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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