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Book SynopsisHow do countries create and replicate socio-economic success? This book argues that success comes from how people make sense of their institutions when they are placed under stress. When institutional frameworks are challenged, a range of agents engaged in sensemaking processes that invoke certain identities on ''who we are'', contain normative claims about ''how things should be'', and involve strategies on ''how to get there''. Sensemaking about the future and the past is crucial to institutional competitiveness and includes prospective and retrospective points of departure, as well as focusing on developing abstract causes of change or replicating success from previous experience. This book brings together a range of world-class scholars from Comparative Political Economy, Institutional Theory, and Organizational Sociology to discuss how sensemaking processes create institutional change. The contributors investigate a range of cases that cover different institutions linked to compet
Table of Contents1. Introduction: Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness. Sense-Making in Institutional Change ; 2. Making Sense of Economic Uncertainty: Knowledge Regimes in the United States and Denmark ; 3. Productive Enterprise In Search Of A Regime - Moving Sensemaking from Past Phantom Communities to "Ends In Sight" ; 4. Reforms of National Innovation Policies in Europe: Coordinating Sensemaking across Countries ; 5. Sensemaking in Public Management Reform in Denmark ; 6. Making Sense of Change and No Change in Employment Policies ; 7. Making Sense of Generational Change and Institutional Competitiveness ; 8. How has Institutional Competitiveness Emerged out of the Complementarity between Nordic Welfare and Innovation Systems? ; 9. Conclusions: Sensemaking and Institutional Change in Comparative Capitalisms
