Business Systems and Organizational Capabilities

Richard Whitley is Professor of Organisational Sociology at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester and has recently held visiting appointments at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. Recent books include: Changing Capitalisms? Internationalisation, Institutional Change and Systems of Economic Organisation; The Multinational Firm: Organizing Across Institutional and National Divides; Divergent Capitalisms: The Social Structuring and Change of Business Systems; and the second edition of The Intellectual and Social Organisation of the Sciences (all published by Oxford University Press), and Competing Capitalisms (Edward Elgar). Current research interests include the institutional structuring of innovation patterns, changing institutional regimes and business systems, and competence development.

• PART I: INTRODUCTION ; 1. The Comparative Analysis of Competing Capitalisms ; PART II: THE CHANGING NATURE OF NATIONAL CAPITALISMS: INSTITUTIONAL REGIMES, BUSINESS SYSTEMS AND INNOVATION SYSTEMS ; 2. The Contingent Nature of National Business Systems: Types of States and Complementary Institutions ; 3. Constructing Innovation Systems: The Roles of Institutional Regimes and National Public Science Systems ; 4. Changing Institutional Regimes and Business Systems: Endogenous and Exogenous Pressures on Postwar Systems of Economic Organization ; 5. The Growth of International Governance and the Restructuring of Business Systems: The Effects of Multileveled Governance in Europe and Elsewhere ; PART III: CONSTRUCTING ORGANIZATIONAL CAPABILITIES IN DIFFERENT INSTITUTIONAL REGIMES ; 6. The Institutional Structuring of Organisational Capabilities: Variations in Authority Sharing and Organisational Careers ; 7. Developing Innovative Competences in Different Institutional Frameworks ; 8. Constructing Capabilities in Entrepreneurial Technology Firms: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Germany, Sweden and the UK ; 9. Project-based Firms: New Organizational Form or Variations On a Theme? ; PART IV: INTERNATIONALISATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSNATIONAL ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES ; 10. Divergent Multinational Firms: Home and Host Economy Effects on Internationalisation Strategies and Organisational Capabilities ; 11. Developing Transnational Organisational Capabilities in Multinational Companies: The Role of Cross- National Authority Sharing and Organisational Careers ; 12. The Changing Japanese Multinational: Application, Adaptation and Learning in Car Manufacturing and Financial Services