TY - JOUR A1 - Sorge, Arndt A1 - Streeck, Wolfgang T1 - Diversified quality production revisited BT - its contribution to German socio-economic performance over time JF - Socio-economic review N2 - We revisit the concept of Diversified Quality Production (DQP), which we introduced about 30 years ago. Our purpose is to examine the extent to which the concept can still be considered tenable for describing and explaining the development of the interaction between the political economy and concepts of production, notably in Germany. First, we show why and in which ways DQP was more heterogeneous than we had originally understood. Then, on the basis of evidence with respect to political, business, and economic changes in Germany, we show that DQP Mark I, a regime by and large characteristic of the 1980s, turned into DQP Mark II. In the process, major ‘complementarities’ disappeared between the late 1980s and now—mainly the complementarity between production modes on the one hand and industrial relations and economic regulation on the other. While the latter exhibit greater change, business strategies and production organization show more continuity, which helps explain how Germany maintained economic performance after the mid-2000s, more than other countries in Europe. Conceptually, our most important result is that the complementarities emphasized in political economy are historically relative and limited, so that they should not be postulated as stable configurations. KW - production concepts KW - manufacturing KW - diversified quality production KW - industrial organization KW - industrial relations KW - industrial restructuring KW - globalization KW - skills KW - Germany Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwy022 SN - 1475-1461 SN - 1475-147X VL - 16 IS - 3 SP - 587 EP - 612 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sorge, Arndt T1 - Too big to fail the inside story of how wall street and washington fought to save the financial system from crisis-and themselves JF - Socio-economic review KW - financial crisis KW - financial institutions KW - financial markets KW - capitalism KW - globalization Y1 - 2011 SN - 1475-1461 VL - 9 IS - 1 SP - 169 EP - 186 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sorge, Arndt T1 - This time is different eight centuries of financial folly JF - Socio-economic review KW - financial crisis KW - financial institutions KW - financial markets KW - capitalism KW - globalization Y1 - 2011 SN - 1475-1461 VL - 9 IS - 1 SP - 169 EP - 186 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sorge, Arndt T1 - How markets fail the logic of economic calamities JF - Socio-economic review KW - financial crisis KW - financial institutions KW - financial markets KW - capitalism KW - globalization Y1 - 2011 SN - 1475-1461 VL - 9 IS - 1 SP - 169 EP - 186 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sorge, Arndt T1 - A failure of capitalism the crisis of '08 and the descent into depression JF - Socio-economic review KW - financial crisis KW - financial institutions KW - financial markets KW - capitalism KW - globalization Y1 - 2011 SN - 1475-1461 VL - 9 IS - 1 SP - 169 EP - 186 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jackson, Gregory A1 - Sorge, Arndt T1 - The trajectory of institutional change in Germany, 1979-2009 JF - Journal of European public policy N2 - Over the last three decades, the German political economy can be characterized by both institutional continuity and change. Understanding the dynamics of institutional change therefore requires an examination of the interplay of changes in formal institutional rules and how organizations respond to these changes by strategic attempts to promote or hinder further change in institutions. The macro-level political story of institutional change shows a number of paradoxes resulting in unexpected and often incomplete forms of market liberalization shaped by continued support for some core features of Germany's social market economy. The resulting erosion of Germany's co-ordinated model of economic organization through networks and business associations has gone hand-in-hand with the attempts to preserve these institutions for core workers and sectors of the economy in the face of changing environments. The result is a more varied institutional landscape characterized by international diffusion of liberal policies and the politics of their variable re-embedding within a long-term path of institutional continuity. KW - Germany KW - institutional change KW - varieties of capitalism Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2012.709009 SN - 1350-1763 SN - 1466-4429 VL - 19 IS - 8 SP - 1146 EP - 1167 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sorge, Arndt T1 - Disintegrating Democracy at Work: Labor Unions and the Future of Good Jobs in the Service Economy JF - British journal of industrial relations : an international journal of employment relations Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0094306113514539i SN - 0007-1080 VL - 51 IS - 1 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken ER -