Labor, Business, and Change in Germany and the United States

Edited by Kirsten W. Wever

in Books from Upjohn Press from W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Abstract: How and why nations adopt systemic change reveals much about their underlying economic, societal, and governmental basis. Such lessons are evident in this volume that explores how two nations with widely divergent political economies - Germany and the United States - embraced change in four contemporary settings: telecommunications deregulation and privatization, management development systems, supplier relations, and employment relations. The chapters explore the proposition that the benefits of either the German coordinating institutions or the United States' more decentralized political economy each entail trade-offs that may be necessary but politically unpleasant. The authors also offer comparisons of sectoral and firm-level adjustment processes for change.

Keywords: mutual learning; structural change; global markets; deregulation; privatization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
ISBN: cloth 9780880992169 paper 9780880992152
Note: PDF is the book's first chapter.
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art ... text=up_bookchapters (application/pdf)
All books are copyrighted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:upj:ubooks:lbcg

Access Statistics for this book

More books in Books from Upjohn Press from W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research 300 S. Westnedge Ave. Kalamazoo, MI 49007 USA. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().