Government as Institutional Entrepreneur
Extending Working Life in the UK and Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2115597 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matt Flynn (0000-0003-4754-9837, Newcastle College), Matthew Flynn, Heike Schröder (0000-0001-8973-7954, Vienna University of Economics and Business), Masa Higo (0000-0003-1839-1671, Boston College), Atsuhiro Yamada (Keio University) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 535-553 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047279414000075 |
| PMID | 24976652 |
| PMCID | PMC4072097 |
| OpenAlex | W2142637819 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 34 |
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
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Government (linguistics) · Institutional change · Leverage (statistics) · Market economy · Political science · Power (physics) · Public relations · Stakeholder · Welfare · Work (physics) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Finance · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Influence of national and regional level social capital on entrepreneurial activity
Part-time work and health in late careers
Addressing the ageing workforce
Growing Older in Social Work
Older people’s social work safe staffing supply and workforce demands analysis
The Social Construction of Retirement and Evolving Policy Discourse of Working Longer
Trends and Determinants of Work-Retirement Transitions under Changing Institutional Conditions
Government as Institutional Entrepreneur
Women and the Economic Miracle
An Introduction to Qualitative Research
How Actors Change Institutions
The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Varieties of Capitalism
Divergent Capitalisms
Institutional barriers to work beyond retirement in an aging Japan
End of the Era of Productivist Welfare Capitalism? Diverging Welfare Regimes in East Asia
Introduction Themed Section
Hybrid or Unique
Why Japanese Workers Remain in the Labor Force So Long
The United Kingdom government's ‘business case’ approach to the regulation of retirement
National institutions and employers’ age management practices in Britain and Germany
Beyond European Welfare Regimes
Agency and Institutions
Beyond the enterprise
Bureaucracy and Growth
Still on the scrapheap
Legal Environments and Organizational Governance
Cultural Orientations, Institutional Entrepreneurs, and Social Change
Economic recession and the nature and pace of social change in Japan
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |