Susana Borrás & Leonard Seabrooke edit and publish: Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness
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Susana Borrás & Leonard Seabrooke edit and publish: Sources of National Institutional CompetitivenessSources of National Institutional Competitiveness - Sensemaking in Institutional Change 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.
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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.
The volume is the final publication from the CBS funded WCRE SONIC project. It includes contributes from: Professor Susana Borrás, Professor Leonard Seabrooke, Professor Ove Kaj Pedersen, Professor Peer Hull Kristensen, Professor Carsten Greve all from Department of Business and Politics at CBS; Professor John L. Campbell, Dartmouth College; Director of Research Søren Kaj Andersen, FAOS, University of Copenhagen; Professor Robert Boyer, Centre for Economic Research and its Applications, the National Centre for Scientific Research, and the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (F) and Professor Vivien Schmidt, Boston University (US).
Susana Borrás and Leonard Seabrooke (eds.): “Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness - Sensemaking in Institutional Change”, 208 pages, Oxford University Press, January 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-967874-7