Daniel Friel

Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina · Business Administration

This Element reviews varieties of capitalism (VoC) developed by Hall and Soskice and subsequent extensions to emerging markets. The author suggests that by reinvigorating existing ideal types and creating new ones through an analysis of its five variables in a variety of countries VoC can be used to evaluate the viability of economic reforms in eac...

Work on firm-specific advantages developed by emerging market multinationals largely focuses on their ability to copy those created by similar companies from the developed world. The predominance of new institutional economics in this field has limited our understanding of how these firms develop different firm-specific advantages by presuming not...

Mohamad El-Hout, the CEO of Middle East Airlines (MEA), had to decide whether or not his airline, the flag carrier from Lebannon, should fly over Syria during the armed conflict there. At the 46th Annual General Meeting of the Arab Air Carriers Organization (AACO) in Doha, Qatar in November of 2013 El-Hout discovers that all of the airlines in this...

Colomé is one of the oldest wineries in Argentina. In 2001, Donald Hess, the owner of a Swiss beverage conglomerate, bought it with the intention of making it a leading producer of biodynamic wines. Shortly thereafter he made significant investments in the local town in the province of Salta where this winery is located, leading to significant impr...

Firms from the developed world operating in emerging mar- kets confront a variety of challenges in adapting their opera- tions to the institutional contexts in these countries. However, most of the preparation provided to expats from these compa- nies focuses on general cultural differences and not institution- al differences such as how to work wi...

This article argues that national institutions identified in the varieties of capitalism approach have a significant impact on the degree of fidelity and extensiveness of best practices adapted by geocentric multinational corporations in host countries in emerging markets. To illustrate this argument it shows how differences in national institution...

This article argues that national institutions identified in the varieties of capitalism approach have a significant impact on the degree of fidelity and extensiveness of best practices adapted by geocentric multinational corporations in host countries in emerging markets. To illustrate this argument it shows how differences in national institution...

There is widespread agreement across the social sciences that institutions matter. Although there is widespread agreement that institutions shape the behavior of actors, there are disagreements over the extent to which they actually influence individuals and the degree to which people can shape them. This article argues that these disagreements der...

Multinational corporations are continually looking for best practices to implement at their facilities throughout the world. Ideally such companies would implement the same practice throughout their facilities worldwide. Too often they run into difficulties and sometimes even outright failures. Some problems in implementing such practices cross-nat...

Varios países en desarrollo exhiben un desempeño débil como exportadores de bienes diferenciados a países desarrollados. Este trabajo construye un marco analítico que explica los principales obstáculos que impiden a los productores de bienes diferenciados establecer una presencia estable en el mundo desarrollado y el proceso a través del cual dicho...

One of the greatest challenges facing companies in the developing world is the lack of quality suppliers. This article argues that multinational corporations from emerging markets can form a competitive advantage in similar countries by resolving operational difficulties arising from institutional voids preventing the operation of markets for quali...

Export Pioneers in Latin America analyzes a series of case studies of successful new export activities throughout the region to learn how pioneers jump-start a virtuous process leading to economic transformation. The cases of blueberries in Argentina, avocados in Mexico, and aircraft in Brazil illustrate how an initially successful export activity...

This article argues that the incorporation of a revised version of the varieties of capitalism approach into international business literature and institution-based theory in strategy would enable scholars and practitioners to improve their understanding of how individual institutions and combinations thereof provide a basis for developing human re...

Several developing countries feature weak performances as exporters of differentiated goods to developed countries. This paper builds a conceptual framework to explain the obstacles that prevent producers of differentiated products from establishing a consistent presence in the developed world and the process through which those obstacles may be ov...

This paper surveys four Argentinean industries — light ships, television programs, wines, and wooden furniture — that have experienced substantial export growth in recent years, particularly to developed countries. The case studies first describe the structure of the industries, then characterize the emergence of export pioneers and the subsequent...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to be a teaching case about organic wine in Argentina, in a sustainable perspective, showing the advantages that this country has related to others in terms of organic and biodynamic production of wine. It shows also the potential of this kind of production, and its limitations, using for that the case of Bodega...

In contrast to many other developing countries that have established a substantial and consistent presence of their differentiated products (mostly manufactures) in high-income markets, Argentina’s exports of those products have not shown similar dynamism despite initiating its industrialization process decades earlier. While standard theories of i...

JarauschKonrad H.. After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945–1995. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiii + 379 pp. ISBN 0-19-512779-X, $35.00. - Volume 9 Issue 3 - Daniel Friel

Konrad Jarausch has undertaken the ambitious project of describing the transformation of Germany from a nationalistic society capable of horrific crimes to a civilized society that respects human rights. The author contends that Germany changed over decades through a collective learning process initially spearheaded by a minority of anti Fascist Ge...

ThelenKathleen. How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan.Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xv + 333 pp. ISBN 0-521-83768-5, $75.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-521-54674-5, $29.99 (paper). - Volume 7 Issue 1 - Daniel Friel

Enterprise & Society 7.1 (2006) 177-179 Kathleen Thelen has written an incredibly fascinating book that should be obligatory reading for anyone interested in the history of skill formation or the evolution of institutions in general. For those working on the "varieties of capitalism," path-dependency, punctured equilibrium, or historical institutio...

Multinational corporations are continually looking for best practices to implement at their facilities throughout the world. Ideally such companies would implement the same practice throughout their facilities worldwide. Too often they run into difficulties and sometimes even outright failures. Some problems in implementing such practices cross-nat...

Enterprise & Society 5.1 (2004) 162-163 Too often the social implications of the transformation from proprietary to managerial capitalism are overlooked, despite the dramatic impact that this development can have on the structure and well-being of acommunity. In Worked Over, Dimitra Doukas provides an interesting account of how the Mohawk River Val...

Building on a ,nascent theory in the varieties of capitalism ,approach and integrating

Although the variety of capitalism approach has inspired debates about the nature of capitalism and prospects for change in the advanced industrialized world, surprisingly little work has been done to develop a category for explaining the nature of capitalism in the developing world. This approach has also neglected applying its theories to concret...

This paper contains case studies documenting the process of export emergence in four sectors producing differentiated goods in Argentina: wines, television programs, motorboats, and wooden furniture. Each case describes the development of Argentine exports, provides a basic history of the sector and shows the types of practices adopted by firms tha...

A preoccupation with competition often dominates the study of governance. A focus on competition often unnecessarily precludes the possibility that regional institutions can suspend competition in certain areas and facilitate cooperation among potential rivals, thereby potentially contributing to their mutual success. In many ways companies coopera...

As large companies continue seeking flexibility outside of their own hierarchies, they are increasingly relying on relations that go far beyond standard arms-length relations with suppliers. At the same time, small and medium-sized enterprises are increasingly relying on close relations with other firms in their industry as a means for improving th...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--New School University, 2003. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 295-308). Photocopy.