| Coordinators: Peer Hull Kristensen (Copenhagen Business
School) and R. Whitley (Manchester Business School).
The purpose of this SWG is to provide a continuos forum
for discussing and comparing differences in economic organisation
among countries from the conviction that comparative studies provide
a method that may result in major theoretical clarifications that
may move us toward a highly improved understanding of the sociology
of firms.
We have agreed within our larger network to invite contributions
to three themes that we find will improve our understanding of
these matters. This three-year programme will run as follows:
1999: Economic Actors, National Systems and International
Contexts (convened by Glenn Morgan).
2000: Forms of Transnational Governance and Paths of
Economic Development (convened by Sigrid Quack and Marie-Laure
Djelic).
2001: Changing Contextual Constructions of Economic
Rationality (convened by Peer Hull Kristensen).
These three themes share the ambition of confronting the
issues of globalization with the knowledge that we have gathered
about the distinctive path-dependent evolutionary process in national
business systems, and of moving towards a better theoretical understanding
of the processes that unfolds within and shapes economic systems.
This three-year programme will be implemented partly within
the framework of EGOS, but the three themes are also selected
as headings for three scientific workshops within the ESRI (European
Summer Research Institute for the Comparative Study of Economic
Organisation). ESRI will in each of the three years bring together
25 scholars and 25 Ph.D. students to explore these issues, to
stimulate a comparative dimension in Ph.D. and other research-projects,
and to create an active forum for and network of researchers interested
in issues of economic organisation and business sociology. For
more information about ESRI see www.cbs.dk/departments/esri
Contact information:
Peer Hull Kristensen
Copenhagen
Business School
Institute of Organisation
Blaagaardsgade 23 B
2200 Copenhagen
n
Phone: +45 38 15 28 15
Fax: +45 38 15 28 28
e-mail: phk.ioa@cbs.dk
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Richard Whitley
Manchester
Business School
Dept. of Sociology
Booth Street West
Manchester M15
6PB
Phone: +44 161 275 6336
Fax: +44 161 275
6598
e-mail: r.whitley@fs2.mbs.ac.uk |
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