TY - JOUR
T1 - Government as institutional entrepreneur
T2 - Extending working life in the UK and Japan
AU - Flynn, Matthew
AU - Schröder, Heike
AU - Higo, Masa
AU - Yamada, Atsuhiro
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0047279414000075
DO - 10.1017/S0047279414000075
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84902292509
SN - 0047-2794
VL - 43
SP - 535
EP - 553
JO - Journal of Social Policy
JF - Journal of Social Policy
IS - 3
ER -