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Book SynopsisThrough detailed case studies of Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, this book investigates how and why welfare services, active labour market institutions, and public policies were re-combined to stimulate innovation and growth in the Nordic countries, and signals the lessons that can be learned by others.
Trade ReviewThis is an interesting book that presents very comprehensive research on developments in business systems and firm and employee behaviour in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden). It will be an important book for many researchers in international and comparative employment relations. * Erling Rasmussen (Auckland Uiversity of Technology, New Zealand) Journal of Industrial Relations *
a marvelous collection of case studies showing how welfare policies in Nordic countries are co-evolving with increasingly open-ended, networked and continuously self-recomposing relations in the social economy. * Gary Herrigel, Socio-Economic Review *
Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. The Co-evolution of Experimentalist Business Systems and Enabling Welfare States: Nordic Countries in Transition ; 2. Finland: Innovating the Global Positioning of Flagship Companies and Foreign Owned Subsidiaries ; 3. Denmark: Tailoring Flexicurity for Changing Roles in Global Games ; 4. Norway: Consolidating the Core of Raw Material Refinement and Integrating Peripheral Companies in Innovative Global Dynamics ; 5. Sweden: From Large Corporations towards Knowledge Intensive Economy ; 6. Developing Comprehensive, Enabling Welfare States for Offensive Experimentalist Business Practices
