Government as institutional entrepreneur: Extending working life in the UK and Japan

Matthew Flynn, Heike Schröder, Masa Higo, Atsuhiro Yamada

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)535-553
Number of pages19
JournalJournal of Social Policy
Volume43
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014 Jul

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
  • Public Administration
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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