Capitalist Diversity and Change

• Original critique of neo-institutionalist analysis
• Proposes a major reorientation of future research in the field
• Crouch puts the concept of governance at the centre of his approach
• Inter-disciplinary appeal in Business, Politics, Sociology, and Geography

Readership: Academics, Researchers, and Students in ,Management Studies, Political Science, Sociology, and Economic Geography, with an interest in comparative capitalism and other neo-institutionalist issues.

Colin Crouch, Chair of the Institute of Governance and Public Management, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

1: Neo-Institutional Analysis and Comparative Capitalism
2: Typologies of Capitalism
3: Wahlverwandschaft, Complementarity, and the Theoretical Utlitity of Institutional Untidiness
4: Innovation and Path Dependence
5: A Strategy for the Analysis of Institutional Governance and innovation
6: Recombinant Governance Mechanisms: Cases
7: Conclusions: A Reformed Neo-institutionalist Research Programme