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Winner of the 2000 Max Weber Award (Organizations, Occupations, and Work), American Sociological Association
Exporting the American Model
The Postwar Transformation of European Business
Marie-Laure Djelic
322 pages
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numerous figures and tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-924664-9
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Paperback
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05 July 2001
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- Winner of the 2000 Max Weber Award (Organizations, Occupations, and Work), American Sociological Association
- Comprehensive analysis of the impact of the American corporate model
- Careful blend of theory and historical evidence
- Focuses upon France, West Germany, and Italy
Exporting the American Model places in historical perspective the apparently universal appeal of the model of corporate capitalism. Marie-Laure Djelic explores the patterns of evolution that have characterized Western European business systems in the postwar period. She identifies two seemingly conflicting trends — one leading to convergence, the other perpetuating national differentiation. To account for this apparent contradiction, she first documents the large-scale transfer to Western Eruope of a model of corporate capitalism with clear American origins, showing the key role in the process of the Marshall Plan administration. Focusing on France, West Germany, and
Italy, she then looks at the specific conditions in which the transfer took place in each case. One key finding is that this transfer had varying degrees of success in each of the three countries and that the American model was partially adapted to national conditions when it was not strongly resisted.
The book underscores the socially constructed and historically contingent nature of structural arrangements shaping conditions of industiral production in capitalist countries today. National systems of industrial production are not given or necessary; they are constructed through time by economic but also political actors with particular goals and resources, often in direct confrontation with other intersts. This shaping is embedded within specific national
institutional contexts but it also takes place in unique geopolitical conditions. Thus foreign actors, it is argued, can have in certain circumstances a significant impact on the process of definition of a given national system of industial production. Readership: Academics and students of international business, sociology, politics, and European and American studies.
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Marie-Laure Djelic, Associate Professor, Human Resources Management Department, ESSEC (Ecole Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales), France
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"This is the best book on the evolution of the European corporate landscape during the Marshall Plan era...The author's theoretical sophistication and skilful use of documentary sources assure this book a place nect to the recent historical analyses of European industry by Alfred D. Chandler and Frank Dobbin."
"Truly a blockbuster book, Exporting the American Model reveals why and how the American model of corporate capitalism spread across parts of Europe after WWII, and why and how it was resisted. Djelic's powerful and wideranging analysis will be essential reading for comparative sociologists, institutional political scientists, and students of busienss." - Theda Skocpol, Professor of Government and Sociology, Havard University
"Professor Djelic's book fills a huge gap in our understaning of comparative business systems by demonstrating how post-Second World War politics shaped the rules governing business in Europe." - Professor Neil Fligstein, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
"An insightul, unbiases, and well-documented behind-the-scenes look at the diffusion of capitalism, coined and "American innovation", in Italy, France, and Germany...carefully researched, documetned, and footnoted." - Administrative Science Quarterly
"investigates a very interesting research topic ... Another strength of the book ... is her recognition that there are national peculiarities. In addition, the book has a good structure and is well written." - Ragnhild Kvalshaugen, Organization Studies, 0.5. 21/4. 2000.
"A thoughtful, well-crafted and detailed comparative analysis . . . a timely study of European 'modernisation'." - David Morgan, Management Learning, 31/3
Review(s) from previous edition
"A thoughtful, well-crafter and detailed comparative analysis . . . a timely study of European 'modernisation'. - David Morgan, Management Learning, 31/3
Review(s) from previous edition
"in many ways this book poses more questions than it answers, and whets the reader's appetite for the story of transfer in later decades. Surely this is a mark of a good book. - David Morgan, Management Learning, 31.3.
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Introduction
Part I. Cross-National Transfer: Structural Types
1.: The American Structural Revolution
2.: Stability of European Industries
Part II. Cross-National Transfer: Conditions, Channels, and Actors
3.: Crisis Inside, Dependence Outside
4.: Actors and Institutional Channels
Part III. Cross-National Transfer: Mechanisms
5.: Voluntary Imitation
6.: From Coercion to Imitation
7.: From Control to Conversion
Part IV. Cross-National Transfer: National Limits
8.: The Resistance of European Business
9.: European Labor and Productivity
Concluding Remarks
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