The book offers a framework to investigate how countries reform and change their institutions to compete in the world economy. It examines how different actors in advanced industrialized countries engage in sensemaking processes to determine how to be competitive. Many cases are explored, covering different institutions linked to competitiveness

Susana Borrás is Professor in Governance and Innovation and the Head of the Department of Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School.; Leonard Seabrooke is Professor in International Political Economy in the Department of Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School, and the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick;

• 1: Susana Borrás and Leonard Seabrooke: Introduction: Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness. Sense-Making in Institutional Change


• 2: John L. Campbell and Ove Kaj Pedersen: Making Sense of Economic Uncertainty: Knowledge Regimes in the United States and Denmark


• 3: Peer Hull Kristensen: Productive Enterprise In Search Of A Regime - Moving Sensemaking from Past Phantom Communities to "Ends In Sight"


• 4: Susana Borrás: Reforms of National Innovation Policies in Europe: Coordinating Sensemaking across Countries


• 5: Carsten Greve: Sensemaking in Public Management Reform in Denmark


• 6: Søren Kaj Andersen: Making Sense of Change and No Change in Employment Policies


• 7: Leonard Seabrooke: Making Sense of Generational Change and Institutional Competitiveness


• 8: Robert Boyer: How has Institutional Competitiveness Emerged out of the Complementarity between Nordic Welfare and Innovation Systems?


• 9: Susana Borrás, Leonard Seabrooke, and Vivien Schmidt: Conclusions: Sensemaking and Institutional Change in Comparative Capitalisms