Globalisation and National Varieties of Capitalism: The Contested Viability of the ‘German Model’

2014 ◽  
pp. 19-33
Keyword(s):  
Varieties Of Capitalism ◽  
German Model

Globalisierung und nationale Wirtschaftsmodelle: kann das »deutsche Modell« überleben?

2006 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 249-264
Author(s):  
Andreas Busch
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Economic Models ◽  
Varieties Of Capitalism ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
National Economic ◽  
German Model ◽  
Political Decisions ◽  
Made In

Abstract Globalisation is often argued to erode differences between national varieties of capitalism and enforce convergence. This article takes up the debate - triggered by declining economic performance - about the viability of the » German model « of a co-ordinated market economy, systematising and summarizing the arguments about its alleged seminal transformation over the last decade. It goes on to identify a number of flaws in the respective literatme and questions whether the case for fundamental change taking place in Germany has really been made in a Iasting and convincing way. In addition it points to significant elements of continuity in areas such as industrial relations and emphasizes the importance of political decisions in determining the fate of national economic models.

PREPARING PUBLIC SERVANTS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: ARCHETYPAL APPROACH

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (14) ◽  
pp. 255-263
Author(s):  
Oleh Ivanovich Rohulskyi
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
German Model ◽  
Managerial Positions ◽  
A Chain ◽  
The Individual

The article describes the main components of the institutional framework of an archetypical approach to public administration. It is determined that the system of preparation of public servants is based on a chain of universal foundations of archetype, in particular, it is influenced by the principle of formation of personnel in the public service, formed on the basis of public opinion. Based on two basic principles relating to admission to public service, three basic models of training civil servants in the European country are defined: German. French and Anglo-Saxon. We analyze each of the models and define the archetypes that influenced their formation and development. The advantages of each model are determined, in particular, the benefits are: the German model of training managers is the balancing between the theoretical knowledge and practical skills that a public servant receives during training, but as a disadvantage one can distinguish the orientation of preparation for legal orientation, which limits the ability to hold managerial positions for many employees The French model of professional training of public servants should include a well-balanced understanding of tasks, namely: decentralization and territorial organization of public services, communication, support of territorial communities, in-depth knowledge and understanding of the need for cooperation with institutions of the European Commonwealth, high-quality human resource management and orientation towards environmentally friendly innovations, such a model of training of public servants is holistic, costly and effective; The Anglo-Saxon model of training of public servants is its orientation towards the implementation of the concept of public administration and the individual approach to employee training, taking into account all the specifics of its activities, providing for the formation of personnel capable of solving specific problems. It is concluded that today in most European countries dominated by mixed models that include elements of different models.

Experimentalism as a Tool of Economic Innovation in Germany

2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wade Jacoby ◽  
Martin Behrens
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Information Gathering ◽  
Wage Bargaining ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Partner ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Comparative Political Economy ◽  
System A ◽  
German Model ◽  
Economic Innovation

Our purpose in this article is to analyze changes in the German wagebargaining system, a system that has attracted enormous attentionfrom scholars of comparative political economy and comparativeindustrial relations. We argue that the wage bargaining portion ofthe German model is neither frozen in place, headed for deregulation,nor merely “muddling through.” Rather, we see the institutionalcapacities of the key actors—especially the unions and employerassociations—making possible a process we term “experimentalism.”In briefest form, experimentalism allows organizations that combinedecentralized information-gathering abilities with centralized decision-making capacity to probe for new possibilities, which, oncefound, can be quickly diffused throughout the organization. We willshow that the capacity for such experimentalism varies across actorsand sectors. And, to make things even tougher, neither major Germansocial actor can sustain innovation in the longer term withoutbringing along the other “social partner.”

Contracts for the Benefit of Third Parties in Japan

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masami Okino
Keyword(s):  
Case Analysis ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Third Party ◽  
German Model ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
The Law

This chapter discusses the law on third party beneficiaries in Japan; mostly characterized by adherence to the German model that still bears an imprint on Japanese contract law. Thus, there is neither a doctrine of consideration nor any other justification for a general doctrine of privity, and contracts for the benefit of third parties are generally enforceable as a matter of course. Whether an enforceable right on the part of a third party is created is simply a matter of interpretation of the contract which is always made on a case-by-case analysis but there are a number of typical scenarios where the courts normally find the existence (or non-existence) of a contract for the benefit of a third party. In the recent debate on reform of Japanese contract law, wide-ranging suggestions were made for revision of the provisions on contracts for the benefit of third parties in the Japanese Civil Code. However, it turned out that reform in this area was confined to a very limited codification of established case law.

Für wen sind Unternehmen da?

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz W. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Varieties Of Capitalism

Zusammenfassung Der Deutsche Corporate Governance Kodex (DCGK) verpflichtet Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat börsennotierter Kapitalgesellschaften auf eine Geschäftspolitik im Interesse der „Stakeholder“ von Unternehmen. Dadurch entsteht der Eindruck, der DCGK habe den zuvor postulierten Interessen-Primat der Kapitaleigner aufgegeben und zwischen den „Varieties of capitalism“ einen Kurswechsel vorgenommen. Andererseits gehen die finanzwirtschaftliche sowie die politikwissenschaftliche und soziologische Literatur davon aus, dass die Globalisierung der Finanzmärkte und das Vordringen institutioneller Investoren eine irreversible Kapitalmarktorientierung der Finanzsysteme eingeleitet haben. In deren Folge nutzen Unternehmen auch ihre Stakeholder-Beziehungen als Wettbewerbsfaktoren zur Steigerung des Unternehmenswertes. Vom Stakeholder-Appell des deutschen DCGK ist daher eher ein politisches Signal an die Öffentlichkeit als ein Einfluss auf Unternehmensziele zu erwarten.

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