11. Economic Performance and National Business Systems: France and the United Kingdom in the International Construction Sector

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgement ix
5. Preface xi
6. I. Introduction
7. 1. National Capitalisms, Global Competition and Economic Performance: An Introduction 3
8. II. Changing Business Environments and National Patterns of Organisational Innovation and Adaptation
9. 2. Institutions, Sector Specialisation and Economic Performance Outcomes 27
10. 3. Performance Standards in Supplier Relations: Relational Contracts, Organisational Processes and the Institutional Environment in a Cross-National Perspective 53
11. 4. Comparative Managerial Learning in Germany and Britain: Techno-Organisational Innovation in Network Industries 79
12. 5. Strategy, Structure and Performance in European Industry: Corporate and National Perspectives 105
13. III. Societal Performance Standards and Their Internationalisation
14. 6. Confidence and Confidentiality: The Social Construction of Performance Standards in Banking 131
15. 7. Changing Performance Standards in the French Banking System 159
16. 8. Reproducing Diversity: ISO 9000 and Work Organisation in the French and German Car Industry 173
17. IV. National Business Systems and Corporate Performance in Globalising Markets
18. 9. Where Do Multinational Corporations Conduct Their Business Activity and What are the Consequences for National Systems? 191
19. 10. Flagships, Flotillas and Corvettes: Corporate Actors, National Business Systems and Sectoral Dynamics in Telecommunications 213
20. 11. Economic Performance and National Business Systems: France and the United Kingdom in the International Construction Sector 237
21. V. Institutional Legacies and Performance Outcomes in National Business Systems
22. 12. Sector Specialisation and Performance in the Netherlands 263
23. 13. Economic Performance of Finland After the Second World War: From Success to Failure 277
24. 14. Success without Shock Therapy in Eastern Europe: The Case of Slovenia 291
25. Index 317