Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness

Sense-Making in Institutional Change

Edited by Susana Borras and Leonard Seabrooke

Interdisciplinary - bringing together Comparative Political Economy, Institutional Theory, and Organizational Sociology
New research essays by well known scholars in thier fields
Original and innovative theoretical framework

Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness

Sense-Making in Institutional Change

Edited by Susana Borras and Leonard Seabrooke

Description

How do countries create and replicate socio-economic success? This book argues that success comes from how people make sense of their institutions when they are placed under stress. When institutional frameworks are challenged, a range of agents engaged in sensemaking processes that invoke certain identities on 'who we are', contain normative claims about 'how things should be', and involve strategies on 'how to get there'. Sensemaking about the future and the past is crucial to institutional competitiveness and includes prospective and retrospective points of departure, as well as focusing on developing abstract causes of change or replicating success from previous experience.

This book brings together a range of world-class scholars from Comparative Political Economy, Institutional Theory, and Organizational Sociology to discuss how sensemaking processes create institutional change. The contributors investigate a range of cases that cover different institutions linked to competitiveness, including labour, public management, think tanks, firms, innovation policies, tax and housing policies, and welfare systems. With a strong focus on the Nordic experience and comparisons with advanced industrialized economies, this volume provides an innovative and original framework for understanding institutional change.

Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness

Sense-Making in Institutional Change

Edited by Susana Borras and Leonard Seabrooke

1. Introduction: Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness. Sense-Making in Institutional Change, Susana Borras and Leonard Seabrooke
2. Making Sense of Economic Uncertainty: Knowledge Regimes in the United States and Denmark, John L. Campbell and Ove Kaj Pedersen
3. Productive Enterprise In Search Of A Regime - Moving Sensemaking from Past Phantom Communities to "Ends In Sight", Peer Hull Kristensen
4. Reforms of National Innovation Policies in Europe: Coordinating Sensemaking across Countries, Susana Borras
5. Sensemaking in Public Management Reform in Denmark, Carsten Greve
6. Making Sense of Change and No Change in Employment Policies, Soren Kaj Andersen
7. Making Sense of Generational Change and Institutional Competitiveness, Leonard Seabrooke
8. How has Institutional Competitiveness Emerged out of the Complementarity between Nordic Welfare and Innovation Systems?, Robert Boyer
9. Conclusions: Sensemaking and Institutional Change in Comparative Capitalisms, Susana Borras, Leonard Seabrooke, and Vivien Schmidt

Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness

Sense-Making in Institutional Change

Edited by Susana Borras and Leonard Seabrooke

Author Information

Susana Borras, Professor in Governance and Innovation and Head of the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School,Leonard Seabrooke, Professor in International Political Economy and Economic Sociology, Copenhagen Business School

Susana Borras is Professor in Governance and Innovation and the Head of the Department of Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School.

Leonard Seabrooke is Professor in International Political Economy in the Department of Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School, and the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick

Contributors:

Susana Borrás, Copenhagen Business School
Leonard Seabrooke, Copenhagen Business School
John L. Campbell, Dartmouth College
Ove Kaj Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School
Peer Hull Kristensen, Copenhagen Business School
Carsten Greve, Copenhagen Business School
Søren Kaj Andersen, University of Copenhagen
Robert Boyer, Centre for Economic Research and its Applications, the National Centre for Scientific Research, and the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences
Vivien Schmidt, Boston University