Includes index.

Contents: General themes and diverse applications: Varieties of labor politics in the developed democracies -- Institutional and sectoral interactions in monetary policy and wage/price-bargaining -- Social protection and the formation of skills: A reinterpretation of the welfare state -- Firms and the welfare state: When, why and how does social policy matter to employers -- The democratic sources of multilateral preferences: Varieties of capitalism in the European community -- Case studies in public policy, continuity and change: Business, government and patterns of labor market policy in Britain and the federal republic of Germany -- Employers, public policy and the politics of decentralized cooeration in Germany and France -- Revising the French model: Coordination and restructing in the French industry -- Corporate governance, firm startegy and the law: Varieties of corporate governance: Comparing Germany and UK -- Macro-varieties of capitalism and macro-varieties of strategic management in European airlines -- The legal framework for corporate governance: The influence of contract law on company strategies in Germany and United States -- Legal irritants: How unifying law ends up in new divergences -- National varieties of standardization -- Bibliography -- Index.