Government as Institutional Entrepreneur:
Extending Working Life in the UK and
Japan

Mathew Flynn; Heike Schröder; Masa Higo; Atsuhiro Yamada

doi:10.1017/S0047279414000075

Government as Institutional Entrepreneur: Extending Working Life in the UK and Japan

Mathew Flynn
, Heike Schröder
, Masa Higo
, Atsuhiro Yamada

Publication: Scientific journal › Journal article › peer-review

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Abstract

Through the lens of Institutional Entrepreneurship, this paper discusses howgovernments
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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	535-553
Journal	Journal of Social Policy
Volume	43
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279414000075
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes

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