Capitalism and Business

Leo McCann is Professor of Organisation Studies at Manchester Business School. His research and teaching focuses on the impacts of large-scale economic change on work and organization across numerous countries. He has written many articles on the subject of the international transformation of white-collar work in journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, and Organization Studies. He is the co-author of Managing in the Modern Corporation(Cambridge University Press, 2009), a major empirical study into the restructuring of white-collar work in the UK, USA and Japan. His research draws on the paradigms of sociology of work, varieties of capitalism, and political economy, exploring how large-scale 'global' transformations are translated through national institutional structures with often profound effects on the everyday lives of organizations, managers, workers and citizens. He is also the author of International and Comparative Business: Foundations of Political Economies (Sage Publications, 2014), a textbook based on over a decade of experience teaching and researching comparative capitalism, globalization, and the restructuring of organizations and work.

VOLUME ONE: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CAPITALISM AND BUSINESS The Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber Freedom in a Complex Society - Karl Polanyi Industrialization, Management, and Ideological Appeals - Reinhard Bendix Pluralistic Industrialism - Clark Kerr, John Dunlop, Frederick Harbison and Charles Myers Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective - Alexander Gerschenkron The Argument in Brief - Andrew Shonfield Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony - John Meyer and Brian Rowan The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields - Paul DiMaggio and Walter Powell Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness - Mark Granovetter Clio and the Economics of QWERTY - Paul David Crafting an Analytic Framework I: Three Pillars of Institutions - William Scott The Regulation School, the Employment Relation and Financialization - John Grahl and Paul Teague System, Society and Dominance Effects in Cross-National Organisational Analysis - Chris Smith and Peter Meiksins VOLUME TWO: CLASSIC AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS OF CAPITALISM AND BUSINESS An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism - Peter Hall and David Soskice Varieties of Capitalism - Richard Whitley Institutional Complementarity and Diversity of Social Systems of Innovation and Production - Bruno Amable Positive-Sum Solutions in a World of Trade-Offs? - Gosta Esping-Andersen The Comparative Study of Organizational Paradigms - Mauro Guillen Managing for Ford - Ken Starkey and Alan McKinlay Soviet Marxism and the Ending of Mass Unemployment - David Lane Where Are We Now? Musings of an Evolutionist - Ronald Dore Standort Deutschland in the Globalising Economy: An End to the Economic Miracle? - Rebecca Harding Many Roads to Flexibility: How Large Firms Built Autarchic Regional Production Systems in France - Bob Hancke The Decline of the British Economy: An Institutional Perspective - Bernard Elbaum and William Lazonick The Swedish Model in Turbulent Times: Decline or Renaissance? - Dominique Anxo and Harald Niklasson Deep Finance: The Organizational Bases of South Korea's Financial Collapse - Nicole Biggart VOLUME THREE: CONTEMPORARY EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM The Financialization of the American Economy - Greta Krippner Restructuring Managerial Labour in the USA, the UK, and Japan: Challenging the Salience of 'Varieties of Capitalism' - Leo McCann, John Hassard and Jonathan Morris The Disintegration of Organised Capitalism: German Corporate Governance in the 1990s - Juergen Beyer and Martin Hoepner Deviant or Different? Corporate Governance in Japan and Germany - Ronald Dore Comparative Capitalisms, Ideational Political Economy and French Post-Dirigiste Responses to the Global Financial Crisis - Ben Clift Is the European Social Model Fragmenting? - John Grahl and Paul Teague Unsustainable Employment Portfolios - John Buchanan, Gary Dymski, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams The Varieties of Capitalism and Hybrid Success: Denmark in the Global Economy - John Campbell and Ove Pedersen From East-Asian 'Miracle' to Neo-liberal 'Mediocrity': The Effects of Liberalization and Financial Opening on the Post-crisis Korean Economy - James Crotty and Kang-Kook Lee Why Social Democrats Become Neoliberals: Lessons from the Swedish Case - J. Magnus Ryner What Kind of Capitalism for Russia? A Comparative Analysis - David Lane Enlarging the Varieties of Capitalism: The Emergence of Dependent Market Economies in East Central Europe - Andreas Noelke and Arjan Vliegenthart The Capitalist Business System of China and Its Rationale - Gordon Redding VOLUME FOUR: CRITIQUES AND REVISIONS OF THE VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM PARADIGM The Varieties of Capitalism Paradigm: Not Enough Variety? - Matthew Allen Manifesto for a Post-Colonial International Business and Management Studies: A Provocation - R.I. Westwood and Gavin Jack What about the Elephant in the Room? Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties in Capitalism - Ian Bruff The State of the Art: Towards a More Dynamic Theory of Capitalist Variety - Richard Deeg and Gregory Jackson Studying Comparative Capitalisms by Going Left and by Going Deeper - David Coates Legal Professionals and Transnational Law-Making: A Case of Distributed Agency - Sigrid Quack Institutional Work: Refocusing Institutional Studies of Organization - Thomas Lawrence, Roy Suddaby and Bernard Leca Institutional Change in Varieties of Capitalism - Peter Hall and Kathleen Thelen Pressure from Without, Subversion from Within: The Two-Pronged German Employer Offensive - Daniel Kinderman Globalisation, Skill Formation and the Varieties of Capitalism Approach - Hugh Lauder, Phillip Brown and David Ashton Varieties of Capitalism: Trajectories of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity - Kathleen Thelen Neoliberalism and Its Implications for Management Practice - Alexander Styhre Prologue to the New Spirit of Capitalism - Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello

This is a comprehensive collection of classic essays on capitalism and business is carefully selected and a must read for students and scholars interested in the field. It charts the trajectory of the intellectual development and theoretical debates around the issues of capitalism and offers rich empirical insights in various national and industrial settings. It is a very timely collection that provides food for thought for those engaging in similar studies in newly industrialised, transitional and emerging economies. -- Fang Cooke