This book examines how firms adapt to the pressures of increasing international competition by testing the arguments on 'strategy specialization' proposed in the competitiveness literature in general, and by contributors to the 'varieties of capitalism' debate in particular. It examines pharmaceutical firms in Germany, Italy, and the UK.
This book examines how firms adapt to the pressures of increasing international competition by testing the arguments on 'strategy specialization' proposed in the competitiveness literature in general, and by contributors to the 'varieties of capitalism' debate in particular. It examines pharmaceutical firms in Germany, Italy, and the UK.
Andrea Monika Herrmann received her PhD in Political Economy from the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (Florence) in November 2006. She also holds an MSc in European Studies: EU Policy Making from the London School of Economics (2002), as well a German and a French BSc in European Business and Management Studies from the European School of Business (Reutlingen) and the École Supérieure de Commerce (Reims). During her MSc and PhD studies, she was awarded various scholarships and research grants sponsored by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD (2001-2005). After completing her doctoral studies she became a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne (2006-2008). Since 2008, she is an Assistant Professor in the Innovation Studies Group at the University of Utrecht.
Inhaltsangabe
* Part I: Specialization in Line with Comparative Institutional Advantages? * 1: Introduction * 2: Patterns of Strategy Specialization * Part II: Linking Institutions, Input Factors, and Competitive Strategies * 3: Linking Financial Market Institutions, Corporate Finance, and Competitive Strategies * 4: Linking Antitrust Legislation, Standards, and Competitive Strategies * 5: Linking Labour Market Institutions, Employee Skills, and Competitive Strategies * Part III: Strategy Success, Choice, and Stability in Perspective * 6: Excursus: Success, Stability, and Choice of Competitive Strategies * 7: Concluding Interpretation
