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Background Documents

1. Introduction Competition in the Digital Global Economy________________ 8:45 – 9:30

• General Framings:
  
• “Creating an Innovative Europe: Report of the Independent Expert Group on R&D and Innovation appointed following the Hampton Court Summit,” chaired by Mr. Esko Aho, from January, 2006.  Summary

• Zysman, John. “Manufacturing in a Digital Era: Strategic Asset or Vulnerable Commodity?” New Directions in Manufacturing: Report of a Workshop. The National Academies Press, Chapter 22, pages 116-129, 2004. Article is available at: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309092272/html/115.html  Summary

• Kenney, Martin. 1997 “Value Creation in the Late Twentieth Century: The Rise of the Knowledge Worker,” in J. Davis, T. Hirshl, and M. Stack (eds.) Cutting Edge: Technology, Information, Capitalism and Social Revolution ( London: Verso): 87-102. Also available at: http://hcd.ucdavis.edu/faculty/kenney/articles/knowledge/valuecreation.html  Summary

• Government Documents:   Summary

• “Innovate Rhode Island: Innovation and Economic Prosperity in Rhode Island,” report created by the Rhode Island Science and Technology Advisory Council, 2006 recommendations. 

• Brown, Gordon Rt. Hon. “Global Europe: full-employment Europe.” October 2005. http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/093/BF/global_europe_131005.pd

• Brown, Gordon Rt. Hon. “Responding to Global Economic Challenges.” October 2005 http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/EA8/50/uk_china131005.pdf

• “Making Finland a leading country in innovation,” the final report on the competitive innovation environment development program.

2. National Responses – What Do Governments Do?_______________________9:30 – 1:15

• Sako, Mari. 2005. “Outsourcing and Offshoring: Key Trends and Issues,” prepared for Emerging Markets Forum, Said Business School.  Summary

• Kristensen, Peer Hull. 2006. “Business Systems in the Age of the “New Economy”: Denmark Facing the Challenge,” Chapter 8 from National Identity and the Varieties of Capitalism.  Summary

• Hassel, Anke and Hugh Williamson. 2004. “The Evolution of the German model: How to judge reforms in Europe’s largest economy,” paper prepared for the Anglo-German Foundation, Berlin.  Summary

• Campbell, John L. and Ove K. Pedersen. 2006. “Institutional Competitiveness in the Global Economy: Denmark and the United States.”  Summary

3. Markets and Social Protection – Policies for Labor Flexibility and Innovation ___     2:00 - 5:00

• Literature on Key Concepts and Policy Challenges:

• Zysman, John and Tobias Schulze-Cleven. 2006. “How Do Wealthy Nations Stay Wealthy in A Digital Era: Challenges for the European Policy Agenda,” Shaping the Future of ICT in the Global Context. Institute for Prospective Technological Studies: European Commission.  Summary
  
• OECD. 2000. “Going mobile? Jobs in the New Economy,” OECD Observer. n.221-222, Summer.  Summary
  
• Wilthagen, Ton, and Frank Tros. 2004. “The concept of ‘flexicurity’: a new approach to regulating employment and labour markets,” Transfer 2.  Summary
  
• Estevez-Abe, Margarita, and Torben Iversen and David Soskice. 2001. “Social Protection and the Formation of Skills: A Reinterpretation of the Welfare State,” Chapter 4 from The Varieties of Capitalism.  Summary
  
• Crouch, Colin, and David Finegold, and Mari Sako. 1999. “Conclusions and Policy Implications,” Chapter 8 from Are Skills the Answer? The Political Economy of Skill Creation in Advanced Industrial Countries.  Summary

• Background Literature on European Developments:
• Sapir, André. 2005. Globalization and the Reform of European Social Models. Bruegel Policy Brief 2005/01. Brussels: Bruegel.  Summary
  
• Madsen, Per Kongshøj . 2006. “How Can It Possibly Fly? The Paradox of a Dynamic Labour Market in a Scandinavian Welfare State,” Chapter 9 from National Identity and the Varieties of Capitalism.  Summary
  
• Keller, Berndt and Harmut Seifer. 2004. “Flexicurity – the German trajectory,” Transfer 2  Summary
  
• Valdés Dal-Ré, Fernando. 2004. “The difficulty of reconciling flexibility and security in Spain: the paradigmatic case of part-time work,” Transfer 2  Summary
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• Background Literature on the Policy Challenges in the United States:
  • Dobbin, Frank. 2002. “Is America Becoming More Exceptional? How Public Policy Corporatized Social Citizenship,” in Rothstein and Steinmo (eds.), Restructuring the Welfare State: Political Institutions and Policy Change.  Summary
    
  • The Legacy Costs and the Crisis of Corporate Social Benefits:
    • The Economist. 2005. “Now for the reckoning - Corporate America’s legacy costs,” 15 October.
      
    • Weiler, Christian. 2005. “Better Funding Rules Can Help Employers Honor their Pension Promises,” Center for American Progress.  Summary
      
    • The Economist. 2006. “Desperate measures - America’s health-care crisis,” 28 January.
      
  • Sectoral Developments and Union Responses (all articles from “The Economist”):
    • “That sinking feeling; General Motors,” 21 November 2005
      
    • “A miracle at Bethlehem,” 11 January 2003.
      
    • “Flying on empty; America’s airlines,” 17 September 2005.
      
    • “Losing its grip; America’s labour federation,” 30 July 2005.

   

5. Designing Research Projects: What is Worth Knowing and How Can We Find It Out – A Discussion of Graduate Research Plans_______________ _________________ 10:00 – 1:00

• Campbell, John L., and Ove K. Pedersen. Forthcoming. “The Varieties of Capitalism and Hybrid Success: Denmark in the Global Economy,” Comparative Political Studies (March 2007).  Summary

• Locke, Richard and Kathleen Thelen. 1995. “Apples and Oranges Revisited: Contextualized Comparisons and the Study of Labor Politics” Politics and Society 23(3): 337-67.  Summary

• Herrigel, Gary. 2005. “ Institutionalists at the Limits of Institutionalism: A Constructivist Critique of two edited Volumes from Wolfgang Streeck and Kozo Yamamura,”Socio-Economic Review 3: 559-67.  Summary