Government as Institutional Entrepreneur: Extending Working Life in the UK and Japan

Through the lens of Institutional Entrepreneurship, this paper discusses how governments use the levers of power afforded through business and welfare systems to affect change in the organisational management of older workers. It does so using national stakeholder interviews in two contrasting econo...

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Autores principales: FLYNN, MATTHEW, SCHRÖDER, HEIKE, HIGO, MASA, YAMADA, ATSUHIRO
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4072097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24976652
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0047279414000075
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description Through the lens of Institutional Entrepreneurship, this paper discusses how governments use the levers of power afforded through business and welfare systems to affect change in the organisational management of older workers. It does so using national stakeholder interviews in two contrasting economies: the United Kingdom and Japan. Both governments have taken a ‘light-touch’ approach to work and retirement. However, the highly institutionalised Japanese system affords the government greater leverage than that of the liberal UK system in changing employer practices at the workplace level.
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spelling pubmed-40720972014-06-26 Government as Institutional Entrepreneur: Extending Working Life in the UK and Japan FLYNN, MATTHEW SCHRÖDER, HEIKE HIGO, MASA YAMADA, ATSUHIRO J Soc Policy Articles Through the lens of Institutional Entrepreneurship, this paper discusses how governments use the levers of power afforded through business and welfare systems to affect change in the organisational management of older workers. It does so using national stakeholder interviews in two contrasting economies: the United Kingdom and Japan. Both governments have taken a ‘light-touch’ approach to work and retirement. However, the highly institutionalised Japanese system affords the government greater leverage than that of the liberal UK system in changing employer practices at the workplace level. Cambridge University Press 2014-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4072097/ /pubmed/24976652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0047279414000075 Text en © Cambridge University Press 2014 The online version of this article is published within an Open Access environment subject to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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