Challenge Of Globalization And Institution Building

"Randall W. Kindley, David F. Good "

• Preface -- Introduction -- Small European States and the Challenge of Globalization -- The Geopolitical Setting -- The Economic Impact of Central and Eastern European Reforms on Western European Economies -- International Monetary Policy and Institutions -- The Credibility of Monetary Integration: Implications of European Experience for Monetary Union -- Denmark and European Integration -- The Reluctant Enthusiast: Finland and the European Union -- Institutional Choice in Transition Economies: The Baltic Monetary Reforms -- Neocorporatism and Its Alternatives -- European Transformation and Institution Building in East and West: The Performance of and Preconditions for Neocorporatism -- Can Nordic Social Corporatism Survive? Challenges to the Labor Market -- Small Business and Local Economic Regeneration in Hungary: The Collective Works Organization as Institutional Alternative -- Conclusion -- Strategic Opportunity, Adaptation, and the Life Cycle of Institutions: Lessons for Large and Small States