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40 <strong>MPIfG</strong> Report 1999–2002 governance, among Europe’s 100 largest non-financial companies. The project thus develops a political economy of capital ownership in Europe, and places this in the historical context of the development of the distribution and organization of property rights within modern capitalism. Its theoretical point of departure is that the rise of a new “shareholder capitalism” would be bound up with an increasing dominance of financial capital over productive capital, or with the rise of “outside” shareholders operating in globalizing capital markets, and oriented exclusively to financial returns, compared to other groups of owners whose fate is more tied up with that of the individual company and its “stakeholders.” Project duration: December 1998 to December 2000. Preliminary report on the project: Bastiaan van Apeldoorn The Rise of Shareholder Capitalism in Continental Europe? Paper prepared for the 18th World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Québec City, 1–5 August, 2000 Employers’ Associations in Central and Eastern Europe Franciszek Draus The formation of employers’ associations in central and eastern European countries is influenced by many endogenous and exogenous factors. Endogenous factors include the structure of the economic system, which is characterized by a predominance of the state and a very complex property rights situation; the ideologically or politically motivated interest of governments, which have in many cases influenced the formation of employers’ associations; and the strength or weakness of trade unions, which are always an important point of reference for employers. Exogenous factors include institutional contacts with employers’ associations in western Europe, which can be defined as a search for models, as well as the institutional requirements of European integration with respect to social partnership, which are proactively taken into consideration. The analysis concentrates on the organization, functions and representativeness of employers’ associations, and on their position within the system of industrial relations in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The institutional requirements for the development of social dialogue and for the future implementation of European social policy are also discussed. The project is conducted jointly with the European Trade Union Institute in Brussels. Project duration: August 1998 to January 2000. Franciszek Draus Les organisations patronales dans les pays de l’Europe centrale et orientale: Pologne, République tchèque, Hongrie. Brussels: European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), 2000, 124 pp. Franciszek Draus European Organizations and Social Partnership in Central and Eastern European Countries. Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary. In: Emilio Gabaglio, Reiner Hoffmann (eds.), European Trade Union Yearbook 1999. Brussels: European Trade Union Institute, 2000, 385–396 The Impact of Decollectivization of Labor Relations on Employment Stefan Zagelmeyer In recent years, the evolution of collective bargaining systems and their impact on economic and social performance have increasingly been the focus of research in a number of social science disciplines. Although collective bargaining is the core of industrial relations systems, and research on bargaining structures has focused more attention on the decentralization of collective bargaining and on the resurgence of national level social pacts, current understanding of the underlying processes and their effects is still rudimentary. Theory construction seems to be underdeveloped, and the empirical evidence available on the impact of different configurations of collective bargaining arrangements is mixed. The project, which will result in a doctoral dissertation, comprises a comparative sectoral analysis of the impact of decollectivization processes in labor relations on employment. The study covers a number of sectors in Germany and the UK. Whereas the UK has experienced a decollectivization process since the 1970s, German collective industrial relations have been in a process of erosion since the early 1990s. In the project, the concept of decollectivization of labor relations is illustrated using two main examples: the demise of multi-employer collective bargaining and the move of many companies to single-employer collective bargaining, and the individualization of the employment relationship with fewer and fewer employees being covered by collective bargaining. Project duration: June 1999 to March 2000. Stefan Zagelmeyer discontinued his project at the <strong>MPIfG</strong> when he accepted a position as a researcher at the Chair of Labour and Regional Economics at the Friedrich-Alexander- University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Science, Technology and Systems of Innovation Completed Projects Internet Governance: The Coordination of a Global Network between State and Market Volker Leib This doctoral project examines the transformation of the governance structure of the Internet during its evolution from a US-centered research network into a global multipurpose network. The research aims at identifying actors, interests and ideas that guided the process of institutional change, and tries to explain why a private transnational regime for the coordination of the Internet came into being. Due to the commercial and global success of the Internet, its governance structure had to be privatized and internationalized at the same time. To achieve this, the Internet community designed a public-private coordination structure which included the International Telecommunication Union. The US government, however, did not welcome this and initiated a private transnational regime made up of non-governmental organizations. At its core was the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). As this new regime moves beyond technical issues and becomes involved in economic and political coordination and regulation, it will be confronted with problems of representation, legitimacy and control. Studying Internet governance will provide general insights into the possibilities of global governance and transnational regulation. Project duration: May 1999 to June 2002. Volker Leib ICANN und der Konflikt um die Internet-Ressourcen: Institutionenbildung im Problemfeld Internet Governance zwischen multinationaler Staatstätigkeit und globaler Selbstregulierung. Doctoral thesis. University of Konstanz, Department of Politics and Management, 2002 Volker Leib ICANN – EU Can’t: Internet Governance and Europe’s Role in the Formation of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). In: Telematics and Informatics, Vol. 19, No. 2, 159-171 (2002) Volker Leib Das Doppelgesicht ICANNs: Koordination und Regulierung des Internet. In: Herbert Kubicek et al. (eds.), Internet@ Future. Jahrbuch Telekommunikation und Gesellschaft 2001. Heidelberg: Hüthig, 2001, 124–126 Project Areas and Research Projects The Governance of Local Economies: An International Comparison Helmut Voelzkow with Colin Crouch (European University Institute, Florence), Carlo Trigilia (University of Florence) and Patrick Le Galès (Centre d’études de la vie politique française – CEVIPOF, Paris) Economic sociologists agree today that local economies are emerging again in Europe as a result of structural change. This phenomenon is reminiscent of the mid-nineteenth century, when such areas were referred to as “industrial districts.” The study analyzes the institutional effectiveness of local economies, which is defined as the ability to produce collective goods that enhance economic competitiveness (vocational training, continuing education, technology transfer between research and industry, international marketing and the like). From a comparative perspective, the study focuses on the institutional infrastructure of local economies, on the programs and funds supporting firms and networks between firms, and on the economic and social impact of effective or ineffective regional institutions. Case studies will be conducted in England, France, Italy and Germany. Project duration: January 1997 to March 2002. Colin Crouch, Patrick Le Galès, Carlo Trigilia, Helmut Voelzkow (eds.) Changing Governance of Local Economies in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2003) Colin Crouch, Patrick Le Galès, Carlo Trigilia, Helmut Voelzkow (eds.) Local Production Systems in Europe: Rise or Demise? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, 286 pp. Colin Crouch (ed.) Challenges to European Economic Governance: Responding to Change in the Machinery Industries. EUI Working Paper SPS No. 2002/13. Florence: European University Institute, 2002, 148 pp. Helmut Voelzkow Die Governance regionaler Ökonomien im internationalen Vergleich: Deutschland und Italien. In: Gerhard Krauss, Gerhard Fuchs, Hans-Georg Wolf (eds.), Die Bindungen der Globalisierung. Marburg: Metropolis, 1999, 48–91 41
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