 The organisation of work and systems of labour market regulation and social protection: a comparison of the EU-15Edward Lorenz and Bengt-Åke Lundvall Post-Print from HAL Abstract: The paper argues that there are a set of interrelations between systems of social protection, labour market structure and work organisation that impact on firms' innovative performance and style (i.e. the relative importance of 'new-to-the market' vs. 'new to firm' innovation). Systems of protection combining high levels of unemployment protection with relatively low levels of employment protection may have an advantage in terms of the adoption of the forms of work organisation and knowledge exploration at the firm level that can lead to 'new to the market' and possibly radical innovation. This is related to the fact that organisations which compete on the basis of strategies of continuous knowledge exploration tend to have relatively porous organisational boundaries so as to permit the insertion of new knowledge and ideas from the outside. Job tenures tend to be short as careers are often structured around a series of discrete projects rather than advancing within an intra-firm hierarchy. Keywords: Systems of social protection; innovation; European comparisons (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Learning regional innovation: Scandinavian models, Palgrave (Macmillan), pp.50-69, 2011 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00726839 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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