My Publications
Below are PDF files of a selection of my more recent publications.
2008
"Interfirm Relations in Global Manufacturing: Disintegrated Production and its Globalization" forthcoming in Glenn Morgan, John Campbell, Colin Crouch, Peer Hull Kristensen, Ove Kai Pedersen and Richard Whitley, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009+), co-authored with Jonathan Zeitlin
"Roles and Rules: Ambiguity, Experimentation and New Forms of
Stakeholderism in Germany" in Industrielle Beziehungen, 15. Jg., Heft 2, 2008 pages 111-132
2007
“A New Wave in the History of Corporate Governance” Enterprise and Society 2007; doi: 10.1093/es/khm073
“Corporate Governance: History without Historians” in Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin, eds. Handbook of Business History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007-forthcoming)
“Flexibility and Formalization: Rethinking Space and Governance in Corporations and Manufacturing Regions” in Katharina Bluhm and Rudi Schmidt (eds.), Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and New European Capitalism. Persistence and Change.. forthcoming
“Roles and Rules: Ambiguity, Experimentation and New Forms of Stakeholderism in Germany” -Chapter draft. Version differs from published one above. It contains a longer concluding theoretical discussion
2006
“Globalization and the “Societal Effect’: Thoughts on Arndt Sorge’s The Global and the Local" in Socioeconomic Review, Volume 4, Issue 4, 2006
"Review of Kathleen Thelen, How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan" H-German, H-Net Reviews
2005
Institutionalists at the Limits of Insitutionalism: A Critique of Two Books on Germany and Japan” In Special Symposium on ‘Non-Liberal Capitalism’ in the Socioeconomic Review, Volume 3, number 3, 2005
“Varieties of Vertical Disintegration: The Global Trend Toward Heterogeneous Supply Relations and the Reproduction of Difference in US and German Manufacturing” in Glenn Morgan, Eli Moen, and Richard Whitley, eds, Changing Capitalisms: Internationalisation, Institutional Change and Systems of Economic Organization (Oxford UP)
2004
“Space and Governance in New Old Economy Manufacturing Industries” in Secons Discussion Forum
“Emerging Strategies and Forms of Governance in the Components Industry in High Wage Regions” in Industry and Innovation, 1191-2) (Mar-June): 45-79
2003
“Large Firms and Regions: New Forms of Engagements” in Bavarian American Academy, ed, Cultures of Economy/Economics of Cultures
2000
“Large Firms and Industrial Districts in Europe: De-regionalization, Re-Regionalization and the Transformation of Manufacturing Flexibility” in John Dunning, ed., Regions, Globalization and the Knowledge Based Economy, (Oxford University Press) (Paperback 2002)
“American Occupation, Market Order and Democracy: The Case of the Steel Industry in Occupied Japan and Germany” in Zeitlin and Herrigel, eds. Americanization and its Limits: Responses to US Technology and Management in Postwar Europe and Japan, (Oxford University Press)
1999
“Governance of Small and Medium Sized Firm Manufacturing in Germany: Transformation of the Machine Tool Industry in the 20th century” in Enterprises et Historie, Juin, 1999, N.21 pages 59-70
“Craft Production in Crisis: Industrial Restructuring in Germany during the 1990s” in Pepper Culpepper and David Finegold, eds., Restructuring Vocational Training in Germany: Comparative perspectives, (Providence: Berghahn Books)—with Charles F Sabel (paperback 2002)
1993
"Identity and Institutions: The Social Construction of Trade Unions in the United States and Germany in the Nineteenth Century" in Studies in American Political Development, fall 1993, 371-394; will also appear in, in revised form, Richard Locke and Kathleen Thelen, eds., Shifting Boundaries of Labor Politics: New Directios for Comparative Research and Theory (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, --forthcoming)
1990
Protokolle of Interview in East German Watch Factory (Uhrenfabrik Ruhle), July 1990