The Changing European firm : limits to convergence / edited by Richard Whitley and Peer Hull Kristensen. - London ; New York : Routledge, c1996. - viii, 337 p. ; ill.; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Variations in the nature of the firm in Europe / The social construction of economic actors: institutions and types of firm in Europe and other market economies / Societal effects in cross-national organization studies: conceptualizing diversity in actors and systems / The survival of the European holding company: institutional choice and contingency / Comparing typical firms in Denmark and Finland: the basis of the Danish and Finnish case-studies / On the constitution of economic actors in Denmark: interacting skill containers and project coordinators / The nature of the typical Finnish firm / Institutions and types of firms in Belgium: regional and sectoral variations / P. H. Kristensen -- R. Whitley -- A. Sorge -- M. Mayer and R. Whittington -- P. H. Kristensen, K. Lilja and R. Tainio -- P. H. Kristensen -- K. Lilja and R. Tainio -- A. van Iterson -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Continuity and change in an emergent market economy: the limited transformation of large enterprises in Hungary / Contracting systems in the European construction industry: a sectoral approach to the dynamics of business systems / The social constitution of supplier relations in Britain and Germany: an institutionalist analysis / The Norwegian disconnection: professional unity and industrial division / R. Whitley, J. Henderson, L. Czaban and G. Lengyel -- G. Winch -- C. Lane -- T. Halvorsen, O. Korsnes and R. Sakslind. 9. 10. 11. 12.

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Organizational change--Europe.
Corporate reorganizations--Europe.
Corporations--Management.--Europe
Comparative management.

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