1st Edition
Varieties of Capitalism and Business History The Dutch Case
1. Introduction Keetie Sluyterman 2. The Evolving Role of Shareholders in Dutch Corporate Governance Abe de Jong, Ailsa Röell, and Gerarda Westerhuis 3. An Entrepreneurial Perspective on Varieties of Capitalism Jacques van Gerwen and Ferry de Goey 4. Multinationals as Agents of Change Keetie Sluyterman and Ben Wubs 5. Between Competition and Concentration: Business Interest Associations, Cartels, Mergers and Acquisitions Bram Bouwens and Joost Dankers 6. The Dutch ‘Polder Model’: The Prosperity of a Consultative Economy in an Era of Neoliberalism – A Paradox? Erik Nijhof and Annette van den Berg 7. Knowledge, Innovation Processes and Institutional Complementarities Mila David 8. Business Systems and Economic Performance in the Dutch Case Jan Luiten van Zanden
Biography
Keetie Sluyterman is Professor of Business History at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and a specialist in Dutch business history of the nineteenth and twentieth century. She has written or jointly authored a large number of business histories including Dutch Enterprise in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2005). She is one of the project leaders of the research program ‘BINT,’ which studies varieties of capitalism and changes over time in national business systems. Keetie is past-president of the EBHA and a member of the advisory editorial board of the journals Business History and Business History Review.
