Atle Midttun
Biographic Data
| ID | 4174980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Atle Midttun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Atle |
| FAMILY NAME | Midttun |
| SIGNATURE | MIDTTUN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | BI Norwegian Business School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Michael A. Livingston. Dreamworld or Dystopia
Michael A. Livingston. Dreamworld or Dystopia?: The Nordic Model and Its Influence in the 21st Century . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp x + 156. This book offers a refreshing view of the Nordic countries from an Anglo-American outlook. The Nordic Model is discussed from a
Dreamworld or Dystopia
This book offers a refreshing view of the Nordic countries from an Anglo-American outlook. The Nordic Model is discussed from a cultural perspective, a stimulating complement to the traditional focus on political economy that tends to dominate such analyses. The combination of mini-cases and a broader cultural sweep makes for entertaining reading, while the cavalcade of comparative observations on four Nordic societies is impressive. As implied i…
The Competitive Advantage of Collaboration – Throwing New Light on The Nordic Model
In one of the most influential contributions to modern political economy, Hall and Soskice have launched a distinction between ‘liberal’ and ‘coordinated’ market economies, placing the Nordic countries firmly in the latter category. We argue that, while the H&S distinction may serve classificatory purposes, seeing the Nordic model in terms of ‘coordinated capitalism’ blurs the distinctive features of the Nordic countries’ success as productive an…
The Joys and Hazards of Synergic Research, or Taking the Sin out of Synergy
Author(s): Witoszek, Nina; Midttun, Atle | Abstract: Response to Lempert: A Response to Multipath Forecasting
Globalization and governance for sustainability
Purpose This paper seeks to take stock of core arguments in some of the most central governance traditions and to discuss their capacity to deliver solutions. It starts with an appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of the ideas of market‐, state‐ and civil‐society‐led governance, but also factors in the effect of media and communication as governance arenas in their own right. Then it aims to review core arguments put forward in broader appro…
The political economy of CSR in Western Europe
Purpose The increasing engagement in corporate social responsibility (CSR) potentially indicates an attempt to “re‐embed” the economy in a wider societal context, following a period of neoliberal market exposure, deregulation, and separation of commercial and societal concerns. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between this new social embedding of the economy and older traditions of social embeddedness, such as the welfare …
Deregulated Energy Markets and the Environment
This study focuses on the cognitive premises for common Nordic energy-related environmental policy as expressed by representatives of Nordic environmental and energy ministries and authorities. Methodologically, it makes use of the cognitive mapping approach. A comparison of the core elements of the conceptual maps reveals that, in spite of a clear recognition of the need for closer integration of the Nordic policies, fundamental differences in t…
The weakness of strong governance and the strength of soft regulation
Much of the debate on economic regulation has revolved around the relative role of markets and hierarchies and the juxtaposition of those two modes of governance vis‐à‐vis each other. However, both the two seemingly polar positions share a basic common assumption, namely the possibility of a recursion to a sovereign public authority capable of making collective decisions that are binding for actors within its territorial domain. The paper argues …
Energy and Environmental Governance under Ecological Modernization
In this study of energy and environmental governance in four Nordic countries, we aim to shed further light on the question of organization of political governance under transition to ecological modernization. Our findings are that, in spite of a number of similarities, the Nordic countries seem to be pursuing programmes of ecological modernization under rather different regimes of political governance. However, we do not find the diversity of na…
Environmental Policy as Democratic Proclamation and Corporatist Implementation
The Nordic countries generally rank as one of the forerunners of environmental policies and figure in the front line with the most ambitious policy goals in international fora. However, since effective environmental action, for instance through environmental taxation, generally puts a burden on industry, a unilateral introduction of environmental measures by one or a few nations may seriously affect their industrial competitiveness, given an open…
Strategic challenges and institutional patterns
This article studies the patterns of adaptation in Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish heavy industry to the electricity market reforms in the three countries. It shows how, in spite of the similarities in strategic challenges and goals, the firms’ adaptation to market-oriented electricity supply followed widely different institutional patterns. The study is empirically based 011 a systematic analysis of the yearly accounts from the involved companies…
Embeddedness and the Articulation of Capital Interests in Norway
This article focuses on organization of capital interests comparatively across sectors and does so by developing an explanatory framework linking organizational patterns to incentives for individual strategies. The key argument is that variations in the political organization of capital interests across sectors, and the linkages between state and capital interests, reflect different degrees of embeddedness. Underlying the embeddedness hypothesis …
Norway in the 1980s
The article comments on Katzenstein's small‐state/flexible adjustment thesis on the basis of the recent economic development in Norway. It is argued that the Norwegian case in the 1970s and 1980s provides a quasi‐experimental situation where the years before and after the 1986 oil‐price fall permit a discussion of some of the limitations of his theory. The article argues that the Katzenstein thesis needs qualifications on at least three points: (…
The Negotiated Political Economy of a Heavy Industrial Sector
What effect does a sector‐based negotiated economy have on industrial transformation, and what are the institutional mechanisms involved in negotiated sector‐regulation? These questions are tentatively answered through an analysis of the political economy of one of Norway's most important industrial sectors: the hydropower and energy‐intensive industry. The study focuses on factors that have allowed the sector to continue to expand throughout the…
Conflict and Local Mobilization
The article presents and discusses attitudes to the Alta case among the local population. This hydropower project, which also raised the issue of Lappish minority rights, created one of the most dramatic political conflicts in Norway since World War II, also on the national level. The survey was done in the Winter 1980/81. This was just before one of the dramatic high points of the conflict the large police action involving about 10% of the total…
The Negotiated Political Economy of a Heavy Industrial Sector
What effect does a sector‐based negotiated economy have on industrial transformation, and what are the institutional mechanisms involved in negotiated sector‐regulation? These questions are tentatively answered through an analysis of the political economy of one of Norway's most important industrial sectors: the hydropower and energy‐intensive industry. The study focuses on factors that have allowed the sector to continue to expand throughout the…
Environmental Policy as Democratic Proclamation and Corporatist Implementation
The Nordic countries generally rank as one of the forerunners of environmental policies and figure in the front line with the most ambitious policy goals in international fora. However, since effective environmental action, for instance through environmental taxation, generally puts a burden on industry, a unilateral introduction of environmental measures by one or a few nations may seriously affect their industrial competitiveness, given an open…
Conflict and Local Mobilization
The article presents and discusses attitudes to the Alta case among the local population. This hydropower project, which also raised the issue of Lappish minority rights, created one of the most dramatic political conflicts in Norway since World War II, also on the national level. The survey was done in the Winter 1980/81. This was just before one of the dramatic high points of the conflict the large police action involving about 10% of the total…
The Competitive Advantage of Collaboration – Throwing New Light on The Nordic Model
In one of the most influential contributions to modern political economy, Hall and Soskice have launched a distinction between ‘liberal’ and ‘coordinated’ market economies, placing the Nordic countries firmly in the latter category. We argue that, while the H&S distinction may serve classificatory purposes, seeing the Nordic model in terms of ‘coordinated capitalism’ blurs the distinctive features of the Nordic countries’ success as productive an…
Energy and Environmental Governance under Ecological Modernization
In this study of energy and environmental governance in four Nordic countries, we aim to shed further light on the question of organization of political governance under transition to ecological modernization. Our findings are that, in spite of a number of similarities, the Nordic countries seem to be pursuing programmes of ecological modernization under rather different regimes of political governance. However, we do not find the diversity of na…
Embeddedness and the Articulation of Capital Interests in Norway
This article focuses on organization of capital interests comparatively across sectors and does so by developing an explanatory framework linking organizational patterns to incentives for individual strategies. The key argument is that variations in the political organization of capital interests across sectors, and the linkages between state and capital interests, reflect different degrees of embeddedness. Underlying the embeddedness hypothesis …
Norway in the 1980s
The article comments on Katzenstein's small‐state/flexible adjustment thesis on the basis of the recent economic development in Norway. It is argued that the Norwegian case in the 1970s and 1980s provides a quasi‐experimental situation where the years before and after the 1986 oil‐price fall permit a discussion of some of the limitations of his theory. The article argues that the Katzenstein thesis needs qualifications on at least three points: (…
Conflict and Local Mobilization
The article presents and discusses attitudes to the Alta case among the local population. This hydropower project, which also raised the issue of Lappish minority rights, created one of the most dramatic political conflicts in Norway since World War II, also on the national level. The survey was done in the Winter 1980/81. This was just before one of the dramatic high points of the conflict the large police action involving about 10% of the total…
The Negotiated Political Economy of a Heavy Industrial Sector
What effect does a sector‐based negotiated economy have on industrial transformation, and what are the institutional mechanisms involved in negotiated sector‐regulation? These questions are tentatively answered through an analysis of the political economy of one of Norway's most important industrial sectors: the hydropower and energy‐intensive industry. The study focuses on factors that have allowed the sector to continue to expand throughout the…
Norway in the 1980s
The article comments on Katzenstein's small‐state/flexible adjustment thesis on the basis of the recent economic development in Norway. It is argued that the Norwegian case in the 1970s and 1980s provides a quasi‐experimental situation where the years before and after the 1986 oil‐price fall permit a discussion of some of the limitations of his theory. The article argues that the Katzenstein thesis needs qualifications on at least three points: (…
Strategic challenges and institutional patterns
This article studies the patterns of adaptation in Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish heavy industry to the electricity market reforms in the three countries. It shows how, in spite of the similarities in strategic challenges and goals, the firms’ adaptation to market-oriented electricity supply followed widely different institutional patterns. The study is empirically based 011 a systematic analysis of the yearly accounts from the involved companies…
Embeddedness and the Articulation of Capital Interests in Norway
This article focuses on organization of capital interests comparatively across sectors and does so by developing an explanatory framework linking organizational patterns to incentives for individual strategies. The key argument is that variations in the political organization of capital interests across sectors, and the linkages between state and capital interests, reflect different degrees of embeddedness. Underlying the embeddedness hypothesis …
Environmental Policy as Democratic Proclamation and Corporatist Implementation
The Nordic countries generally rank as one of the forerunners of environmental policies and figure in the front line with the most ambitious policy goals in international fora. However, since effective environmental action, for instance through environmental taxation, generally puts a burden on industry, a unilateral introduction of environmental measures by one or a few nations may seriously affect their industrial competitiveness, given an open…
The weakness of strong governance and the strength of soft regulation
Much of the debate on economic regulation has revolved around the relative role of markets and hierarchies and the juxtaposition of those two modes of governance vis‐à‐vis each other. However, both the two seemingly polar positions share a basic common assumption, namely the possibility of a recursion to a sovereign public authority capable of making collective decisions that are binding for actors within its territorial domain. The paper argues …
Energy and Environmental Governance under Ecological Modernization
In this study of energy and environmental governance in four Nordic countries, we aim to shed further light on the question of organization of political governance under transition to ecological modernization. Our findings are that, in spite of a number of similarities, the Nordic countries seem to be pursuing programmes of ecological modernization under rather different regimes of political governance. However, we do not find the diversity of na…
Deregulated Energy Markets and the Environment
This study focuses on the cognitive premises for common Nordic energy-related environmental policy as expressed by representatives of Nordic environmental and energy ministries and authorities. Methodologically, it makes use of the cognitive mapping approach. A comparison of the core elements of the conceptual maps reveals that, in spite of a clear recognition of the need for closer integration of the Nordic policies, fundamental differences in t…
The political economy of CSR in Western Europe
Purpose The increasing engagement in corporate social responsibility (CSR) potentially indicates an attempt to “re‐embed” the economy in a wider societal context, following a period of neoliberal market exposure, deregulation, and separation of commercial and societal concerns. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between this new social embedding of the economy and older traditions of social embeddedness, such as the welfare …
Globalization and governance for sustainability
Purpose This paper seeks to take stock of core arguments in some of the most central governance traditions and to discuss their capacity to deliver solutions. It starts with an appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of the ideas of market‐, state‐ and civil‐society‐led governance, but also factors in the effect of media and communication as governance arenas in their own right. Then it aims to review core arguments put forward in broader appro…
The Joys and Hazards of Synergic Research, or Taking the Sin out of Synergy
Author(s): Witoszek, Nina; Midttun, Atle | Abstract: Response to Lempert: A Response to Multipath Forecasting
The Competitive Advantage of Collaboration – Throwing New Light on The Nordic Model
In one of the most influential contributions to modern political economy, Hall and Soskice have launched a distinction between ‘liberal’ and ‘coordinated’ market economies, placing the Nordic countries firmly in the latter category. We argue that, while the H&S distinction may serve classificatory purposes, seeing the Nordic model in terms of ‘coordinated capitalism’ blurs the distinctive features of the Nordic countries’ success as productive an…
Michael A. Livingston. Dreamworld or Dystopia
Michael A. Livingston. Dreamworld or Dystopia?: The Nordic Model and Its Influence in the 21st Century . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp x + 156. This book offers a refreshing view of the Nordic countries from an Anglo-American outlook. The Nordic Model is discussed from a
Dreamworld or Dystopia
This book offers a refreshing view of the Nordic countries from an Anglo-American outlook. The Nordic Model is discussed from a cultural perspective, a stimulating complement to the traditional focus on political economy that tends to dominate such analyses. The combination of mini-cases and a broader cultural sweep makes for entertaining reading, while the cavalcade of comparative observations on four Nordic societies is impressive. As implied i…
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