Explores trends in the evolution of business systems in post-war Western Europe, looking particularly at the influence of the American corporate model. The author focuses on France, West Germany and Italy after 1945 and the Marshall Plan, arguing that the model had varying degrees of success in these three countries.

Introduction ; PART I. CROSS-NATIONAL TRANSFER: STRUCTURAL TYPES ; 1. The American Structural Revolution ; 2. Stability of European Industries ; PART II. CROSS-NATIONAL TRANSFER: CONDITIONS, CHANNELS, AND ACTORS ; 3. Crisis Inside, Dependence Outside ; 4. Actors and Institutional Channels ; PART III. CROSS-NATIONAL TRANSFER: MECHANISMS ; 5. Voluntary Imitation ; 6. From Coercion to Imitation ; 7. From Control to Conversion ; PART IV. CROSS-NATIONAL TRANSFER: NATIONAL LIMITS ; 8. The Resistance of European Business ; 9. European Labor and Productivity ; Concluding Remarks

This is the best book on the evolution of the European corporate landscape during the Marshall Plan era...The author's theoretical sophistication and skilful use of documentary sources assure this book a place nect to the recent historical analyses of European industry by Alfred D. Chandler and Frank Dobbin. `Truly a blockbuster book, Exporting the American Model reveals why and how the American model of corporate capitalism spread across parts of Europe after WWII, and why and how it was resisted. Djelic's powerful and wideranging analysis will be essential reading for comparative sociologists, institutional political scientists, and students of busienss.' Theda Skocpol, Professor of Government and Sociology, Havard University `Professor Djelic's book fills a huge gap in our understaning of comparative business systems by demonstrating how post-Second World War politics shaped the rules governing business in Europe.' Professor Neil Fligstein, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley `An insightul, unbiases, and well-documented behind-the-scenes look at the diffusion of capitalism, coined and "American innovation", in Italy, France, and Germany...carefully researched, documetned, and footnoted.' Administrative Science Quarterly `investigates a very interesting research topic ... Another strength of the book ... is her recognition that there are national peculiarities. In addition, the book has a good structure and is well written.' Ragnhild Kvalshaugen, Organization Studies, 0.5. 21/4. 2000. `A thoughtful, well-crafted and detailed comparative analysis . . . a timely study of European 'modernisation'.' David Morgan, Management Learning, 31/3 `Review from previous edition A thoughtful, well-crafter and detailed comparative analysis . . . a timely study of European 'modernisation'.' David Morgan, Management Learning, 31/3 `Review from previous edition in many ways this book poses more questions than it answers, and whets the reader's appetite for the story of transfer in later decades. Surely this is a mark of a good book.' David Morgan, Management Learning, 31.3.

Winner of the 2000 Max Weber Award (Organizations, Occupations, and Work), American Sociological Association Comprehensive analysis of the impact of the American corporate model Careful blend of theory and historical evidence Focuses upon France, West Germany, and Italy

Marie-Laure Djelic is Associate Professor in the Department of Human Resources Management at ESSEC (Ecole Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales), France. Her main research areas are business history, cross-cultural management, and organization design and change.

Winner of the 2000 Max Weber Award (Organizations, Occupations, and Work), American Sociological Association Comprehensive analysis of the impact of the American corporate model Careful blend of theory and historical evidence Focuses upon France, West Germany, and Italy