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

Flynn, Matthew; Schröder, Heike; Higo, Masa; Yamada, Atsuhiro

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.

Citation

Flynn, M., Schröder, H., Higo, M., & Yamada, A. (2014). Government as institutional entrepreneur: extending working life in the UK and Japan. Journal of Social Policy, 43(3), 535-553. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279414000075

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Apr 29, 2014
• Publication Date: 2014-07
• Deposit Date: May 15, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: May 20, 2019
• Journal: Journal of Social Policy
• Print ISSN: 0047-2794
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 535-553
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279414000075
• Keywords: Social Sciences (miscellaneous); Public Administration; Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/1788207
• Publisher URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-social-policy/article/government-as-institutional-entrepreneur-extending-working-life-in-the-uk-and-japan4/F9E6A17A89B0D6519AB53F56A1FE12BD
• Additional Information: COPYRIGHT: © Cambridge University Press 2014; The online version of this article is published within an Open Access environment subject to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
• Contract Date: May 20, 2019