The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope

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WHAT NEXT?Chapter 14.The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope xi TABLES 7.1 Indicators of DUI-and STI-mode learning 7.2 Clustering of 692 Danish fi rms based on latent classanalysis: probability that a fi rm will be characterized by a policy/practice according to cluster 7.3 The frequency of the three clusters by fi rm size, sector, group ownership and production type (per cent horizontal) 7.4 Logistic regression of learning clusters on product/ service innovation A7.1 The questions used in the survey A7.2 Summary statistics from the latent class analysis A7.3 The fi ve-cluster solution 8.1 Variables for work organization and tasks 8.2 Work organization clusters 8.3 Forms of work organization by sector of activity 8.4 Forms of work organization by occupational category 8.5 National diff erences in forms of work organization 8.6 Logit estimates of national eff ects on organizational practice 8.7 Distribution of innovation modes in 14 EU member nations, 1998-2000 9.1 The two-dimensional shift in perspective 9.2 National diff erences in organizational models (per cent of employees by organizational class) 9.3 The probability that fi rms develop a new product or a new service 9.4 Resources fundamental for economic growthcombining the tangible and reproducible dimensions 10.1 Growth of China's economy 1890-1995 (at constant prices) 10.2 Openness of China to the global economy 10.3 Growth in representative products 10.4 China's investment in R&D xii THE LEARNING ECONOMY AND THE ECONOMICS OF HOPE xii 10.5 Selective indicators to changes in China's NIS (all the measures at current prices) 287 10.6 Resources fundamental for economic growthcombining the tangible and reproducible dimensions 298 11.1 Logistic regression of learning clusters on product/ service innovation 308 11.2 National diff erences in organizational models (percentage of employees by organizational class) 311 11.3 Changes in task content for employees during the period 1993-95 for fi rms that have made organizational changes (outside the parentheses) compared with fi rms that have not made organizational changes (in parentheses) 315 11.4 National diff erences in organizational models (percentage of employees by organizational class) 320 xiii FIGURES 8.1 Correlations between innovation modes and discretionary learning, all sectors 8.2 Correlations between innovation modes and lean organization, all sectors 8.3 Correlations between innovation modes and Taylorist organization, all sectors 8.4 Correlations between discretionary learning and innovation modes for manufacturing and for services 8.5 Correlations between innovation modes and lean organization for manufacturing and services 8.6 Correlations between innovation modes and Taylorist organization for manufacturing and services A8.1 Forms of work organization 10.1 Per capita GDP in comparison (USA=100) 10.2 GDP structure of China's economy (at constant prices) 10.3 Ownership structure: Industry by 2003 10.4 Openness to global economy 10.5 Export structure 10.6 Growth in representative products 10.7 GDP structure in comparison 10.8 Employment structure in comparison 10.9 Transformation of China's NIS 11.1 Percentage lead innovators by percentage discretionary learning 11.2 Discretionary learning and tertiary education 11.3 Discretionary learning and employee vocational training 11.4 Correlations between discretionary learning and systems of social protection 12.1 A model linking transformation pressure to the capacity to change and to the distribution of the costs and benefi ts of change xiv xv