Papers & Presentations
2024 & Forthcoming

• Sabel, Charles F. “Il parafulmine e il sismografo.” L'economia, la politica, i luoghi: Scritti per Fabrizio Barca. Rome: Donzelli Editore, 2024.

• Contributor, Charles F. Sabel. In Jaime Martin, The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance Panel. Heyman Center for the Humanities, 2023.
• O’Donnell, Rory, Charles F. Sabel, and Larry O’Connell. “A Critical Juncture in Irish Agriculture and the Green Transition." 2023.
• Barbera, Filippo, and Charles F. Sabel. “Fixing the Climate: Charles Sabel in Conversation with Filippo Barbera.” Sociologica, Vol. 17, No 1, 2023, pp. 197-205.
• Zeitlin, Jonathan, Jan-Kees Helderman and Charles Sabel. “Transforming the Welfare State, One Case at a Time: How Utrecht Makes Customized Social Care Work.” Politics & Society, 17 January 2023.
• Ghezzi, Piero and Charles F. Sabel. “The quality hurdle: Towards a development model that is no longer industry-centric.” Forthcoming. 

• Zeitlin, Jonathan, Jan-Kees Helderman and Charles Sabel. “Transforming the Welfare State, One Case at a Time: How Utrecht Makes Customized Social Care Work.” Forthcoming in Politics & Society, 17 January 2023.
• Fixing the Climate: Strategies for an Uncertain World with David Victor. Princeton University Press, 2022.
• Rodrik, Dani and Charles F. Sabel. "Building a Good Jobs Economy." In Political Economy and Justice, edited by Danielle Allen, Yochai Benkler, Leah Downey, Rebecca Henderson and Joshua Simons. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.

• Kessler, Jeremy and Charles F. Sabel. "The Uncertain Future of Administrative Law." The Modern Administrative State: Reconstruction or Deconstruction?  Daedalus, ed. Mark Tushnet, Summer 2021.
• Hoekman, Bernard and Charles F. Sabel. "Open Plurilateral Agreements, Global Spillovers and the Multilateral Trading System." Forthcoming in Global Policy special issue, 2021.
• Annala, Mikko, Iacopo Gronchi, Juha Leppänen, Silva Mertsola and Charles F. Sabel. "A Call for Humble Government: How to overcome political gridlock in liberal democracies." Government of Finland's Analysis, Assessment and Research Activities and Demos Helsinki, 2021.

• Victor, David and Charles Sabel. "How to Fix the Climate." In Climate Action. Boston Review of Books, 2020, pp. 11-30.
• Sabel, Charles F. "Preface." In Enrichment: A Critique of Commodities, by Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre. Cambridge, UK; Medford, MA: Polity, 2020.

• Sabel, Charles F. and Rory O’Donnell and Larry O’Connell. “Self Organization under Deliberate Direction: Irish Dairy and the Possibilities of a New Climate Change Regime.” Under review by Regulation and Governance, 2019.
• Morgan, Kevin and Charles F. Sabel. "The Experimentalist Polity." Radical Visions of Future Government, edited by Tom Symons, NESTA, 2019, pp. 75-81.
• Sabel, Charles F. "Sovereignty and Complex Interdependence: Some Surprising Indications of Their Compatibility." Ideas that Matter: Democracy, Justice, Rights, edited by Annabelle Lever and Debra Satz, Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 201-227.
• Hoekman, Bernard and Charles F. Sabel. "Open Plurilateral Agreements, International Regulatory Cooperation and the WTO."RSCAS Working Papers 2019/10, European University Institute, 2019; Global Policy 10(3), 2019, pp. 297-312.
• Hoekman, Bernard and Charles F. Sabel. "In a World of Value Chains: What Space for Regulatory Coherence and Cooperation in Trade Agreements?" Megaregulation Contested: Global Economic Ordering After TPP, edited by Benedict Kingsbury, et al., Oxford University Press, 2019.
• Sabel, Charles and Piero Ghezzi. 2019. “Rethinking Informality.”

• Sabel, Charles F. and Gary Herrigel. "Collaborative Innovation in the Norwegian Oil and Gas Industry: Surprise or Sign of a New Economy-wide Paradigm?" Transformations in the Petroleum Innovation System: Lessons from Norway and Beyond, edited by Taran Thune, et al., Routledge, 2018.

• Sabel, Charles F. "El nuevo derecho de interés público: una mirada hacia atrás a la situación en Estados Unidos y hacia adelante a su futuro brillante en otras partes." Revista de Interés Público, vol. 1, no. 2, 2017, pp. 92-98. For an English version, see: "New Public Law: A Glance Back at the Situation in the US and and Look Ahead at its Bright Future Elsewhere."
  
• Sabel, Charles F., et al. "Regulation under Uncertainty: The Co-evolution of Industry and Regulation in the Norwegian Offshore Gas and Oil Industry." Regulation and Governance, vol. 11, no. 2, 2017.
  
• Sabel, Charles F., et al. "Capacitating Services and the Bottom-Up Approach to Social Investment," The Uses of Social Investment, edited by Anton Hemerijck, Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 140-149.
  
• Sabel, Charles F. and William H. Simon. "The Management Side of Due Process in the Service-Based Welfare State," Administrative Law from the Inside Out: Essays on Themes in the Work of Jerry L. Mashaw, edited by Nicholas R. Parrillo, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 63-86.
  
• Kuznetsov, Yevgeny and Charles F. Sabel. "Managing Self-Discovery: Diagnostic Monitoring of a Portfolio of Projects and Programs." Advances in the Theory and Practice of Smart Specialization, edited by Slavo Radosevic, et al., Academic Press, 2017, pp. 51-72.

• Sabel, Charles F. and William H. Simon. "The Duty of Responsible Adminsitration and the Problem of Police Accountability," Yale J. on Reg. 33 (2016): 165.
  
• Sabel, Charles F. and David G. Victor. "An Evolutionary Approach to Governing Global Problems, Climate Policy After Paris." Policy Analysis Brief, The Stanley Foundation, 2016, pp. 1-16.
  — Fernández-Arias, Eduardo, et al. "Overview: Public-Private Collaboration on Productive Development Policies." Two to Tango: Public-Private Collaboration for Productive Development Policies, Inter-Development Bank, 2016, pp. 1-29. For the whole book, see: Two to Tango: Public-Private Collaboration for Productive Development Policies
  — Sabel, Charles F. "Prologo: El feliz accidente de las mesas ejecutivas." Mesas ejecutivas: nueva herramienta para la diversificacion productiva en el Peru, Ministerio del la Produccion del Peru, 2016, pp. 11-16. For the whole booklet, see: Mesas Ejecutivas (Spanish) or Mesas Ejecutivas (English)
  
• Sabel, Charles F. "Thinking about Industrial Policy as Industry Becomes Less Central to Development," prepared for the Relations Between Productive Development Policis, Jobs, Wages and Human Resources Brainstorming Session, Lima, Peru, January 22, 2016.

• Sabel, Charles F. and David G. Victor. "Governing Global Problems under Uncertainty: Making Bottom-Up Climate Policy Work." Climatic Change, vol. 144, no. 1, 2015, pp. 1-13.
  
• Sabel, Charles F. and Luke Jordan. Doing, Learning, Being: Some Lessons Learned from Malaysia’s National Transformation Program. World Bank Group, 2015.

• Gilson, Ronald J., et al. "Text and Context: Contract Interpretation as Contract Design." Cornell L. Rev. vol. 100, no. 1, 2014.
  
• De Búrca, Gráinne, et al. "Global Experimentalist Governance." British Journal of Political Science, vol. 44, no. 3, 2014, pp. 477-486. For the Abstract, see: Global Experimentalist Governance (GXG).
  
• Sabel, Charles F. "On Richard M. Locke, the Promise and Limits of Private Power: Promoting Labor Standards in a Global Economy." Socio-Economic Review, vol. 12, no. 1, 2014, pp. 219-253.
  

• Gilson, Ronald J., et al. "Contract and Innovation: The Limited Role of Generalist Courts in the Evolution of Novel Contractual Forms." NYUL Rev, vol. 88, no. 1, 2013, pp. 170-215.
  
• De Búrca, Gráinne, et al. "New Modes of Pluralist Global Governance." NYUJ Int’l L. & Pol. , vol. 45, no. 1, 2013, pp. 723-786.

• Sabel, Charles F. "Rethinking the Street-Level Bureaucrat: Tacit and Deliberate Ways Organizations Can Learn." Economy in Society: essays in Honor of Michael J. Piore, edited by Paul Osterman, MIT Press, 2012, pp. 113-142.
• Sabel, Charles F. "Dewey, Democracy and Democratic Experimentalism." Contemporary Pragmatism, vol. 9, no. 2, 2012, pp. 35-55.
• Sabel, Charles F. and Jonathan Zeitlin. "Experimentalism in the EU: Common Ground and Persistent Differences." Regulation & Governance, vol. 6, 2012, pp. 410-426.
• Sabel, Charles F. "Systems-Level Issues." Child Maltreatment Research, Policy, and Practice for the Next Decade Workshop Summary, edited by Clare Stroud and Steve Olson, National Academies Press, 2012, pp. 81-94.
• Sabel, Charles F. and William H. Simon. "Contextualizing Regimes: Institutionalization as a Response to the Limits of Interpretation and Policy Engineering." Michigan Law Review, vol. 110, no. 7, 2012.
• Sabel, Charles F. "Individualised service provision and the new welfare state: Are there lessons from Northern Europe for developing countries?" Promoting Inclusive Growth, Challenges and Policies, OECD, 2012, pp. 75-111.
• Sabel, Charles F. and Jonathan Zeitlin. "Experimentalist Governance." The Oxford Handbook of Governance, edited by David Levi-Faur, OUP Oxford, 2012, pp. 2-4.
• Sabel, Charles F. "Self-Discovery as a Coordination Problem." Export Pioneeers in Latin America, edited by Charles F. Sabel, et al, Inter-American Development Bank, 2012, pp. 1-46.

• Sabel, Charles F., et al. "Individualized Service Provision in the New Welfare State: Lessons from Special Education in Finland." Special Report prepared for SITRA, December 2011.
• Sabel, Charles F. and William H. Simon. "Minimalism and Experimentalism in the Administrative State." Geo. LJ, vol. 100, no. 1, 2011, pp. 53-94.
• Saxenian, AnnaLee and Charles F. Sabel. “The New Argonauts and the Rise of Venture Capital in the ‘Periphery.’” Handbook of Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, edited by David B. Audretsch and Edward Elgar, 2012, pp. 104-118.
• Sabel, Charles F. and Jonathan Zeitlin. "Experimentalism in Transnational Governance: Emergent Pathways and Diffusion Mechanism," paper presented at the panel on "Global Governance in Transition," annual conference of the International Studies Association, Montreal, March 2011.

2010

• Gilson, Ronald J., et al. "Braiding: The Interaction of Formal and Informal Contracting in Theory, Practice and Doctrine." Colum. L. Rev., vol. 110, no. 6, 2010, pp. 1377-1447.
• Sabel, Charles F. and Oliver Gerstenberg. "Constitutionalising an Overlapping Consensus: the ECJ and the Emergence of a Co-Ordinate Constitutional Order." European Law Journal, vol. 16, no. 5, 2010, pp. 511-500.

2009

• Cohen, Joshua and Charles F. Sabel. Flexicurity Pathways, 2009, pp. 10-14.
• Gilson, Ronald J., et al. "Contracting for Innovation: Vertical Disintegration and Interfirm Collaboration." Colum. L. Rev., vol. 109, no. 3, 2009, pp. 109-431.

• Post, Robert, et al. "The National Healthcare Quality Act: A Legislative Proposal," draft for SEIU, 2008.
• Sabel, Charles F. and AnnaLee Saxenian. "A Fugitive Success: Finland's Economic Future." Finnish National Fund for Research and Development, 2008.
• Sabel, Charles F. and Jonathan Zeitlin. "Learning from Difference: the New Architecture of Experimentalist Governance in the EU." European Law Journal, vol. 14, no. 3, 2008, pp. 271-327.
• Sazenian, AnnaLee and Charles F. Sabel. "Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography Venture Capital in the “Periphery”: The New Argonauts, Global Search, and Local Institution Building.” Economic Geography, vol. 84, no. 4, 2008, pp. 379-394.

• Hausmann, Ricardo, et al. "Reconfiguring Industrial Policy: A Framework with an Application to South Africa." HKS Working Paper No. RWP08-031. Available on SSRN, 2007.
• Sabel, Charles F. “Bootstrapping Development: Rethinking the Role of Public Intervention in Promoting Growth.” On Capitalism, edited by Victor Lee and Richard Swedberg, Stanford University Press, 2007, pp. 305-341.
• Sabel, Charles F. “Rolling Rule Labor Standards: Why Their Time Has Come, and Why We Should Be Glad of It.” Protecting Labour Rights as Human Rights: Present and Future of International Supervision, edited by Victor Lee and Richard Swedberg, Stanford University Press, 2007, pp. 305-341.

• Cohen, Joshua and Charles F. Sabel. "Extra Rempublicam, Nulla Justicia." Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 34, no. 2, 2006, pp. 147-175.
• Sabel, Charles F. "A Real Time Revolution in Routines." The Firm as a Collaborative Community, edited by Charles C. Heckscher and Paul S. Adler, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 106-156; Organizational Studies, 2006, p. 110-113.
• Sabel, Charles F. and William H. Simon. "Gaps and Hybrids." New Governance and Constitutionalism in Europe and the US edited by Gráinne De Búrca and Joanne Scott, Hart, 2006.

• Cohen, Joshua and Charles F. Sabel. “Global Democracy?” NYUJ Int’l L. & Pol., vol. 37, no. 4, 2005, pp. 763-797.
• Sabel, Charles F. "Globalisation, New Public Services, Local Democracy: What's the Connection?" Local Governance and the Drivers of Growth OCED, 2005, pp. 111-131.

• Sabel, Charles F. "Ungoverned Production." Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Governance, edited by Jeffrey Neil Gordon and Mark J. Roe, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 310-327.
• Sabel, Charles F. “Beyond Principal-Agent Governance: Experimentalist Organizations, Learning and Accountability." edited by Jeffrey Neil Gordon and Mark J. Roe, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 310-327.
• Sabel, Charles F. and Jonathan Zeitlin. "Neither Modularity nor Relational Contracting: Inter-Firm Collaboration in the New Economy."Enterprise and Society vol. 5, no. 3, 2004, pp. 388-403.
• Sabel, Charles F. "The World in a Bottle, or, Window on the World? Open Questions about Industrial Districts in the Spirit of Sebastiano Brusco," paper presented to the Conference on Clusters, Industrial Districts and Firms: the Challenge of Globalization, Modena, Italy, September 2003. In Italian: “Mondo in bottiglia o finestra sul mondo? Domande aperte sui distretti industriali nello spirito di Sebastiano Brusco.” Stato e Mercato, vol. 70, no. 1, 2004, pp. 143-158.
• Sabel, Charles, F. "Pragmatic Collaborations in Practice: A Response to Herrigel and Whitford and Zeitlin." Industry and Innovation, vol. 11, no. 1-2, 2004, pp. 81-87.
• Cohen, Joshua and Charles F. Sabel. “Sovereignty and Solidarity: EU and US.” Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy: European and American Experiments, edited by Jonathan Zeitlin and David M. Trubek, OUP Oxford, 2003, pp. 345-375; also in Public Governance in the Age of Globalization, edited by Karl-Heinz Ladeur, Ashgate, 2004, pp. 157-175.
• Sabel, Charles F. and William H. Simon. “Destabilization Rights: How Public Law Litigation Succeeds.” Harvard Law Review vol. 117, no. 4, 2004, pp. 1015-1101.

• Liebman, James S. and Charles F. Sabel. "A Public Laboratory Dewey Barely Imagined: The Emerging Model of School Governance and Legal Reform." NYU Rev. L. & Soc. Change, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 183-304.
• Liebman, James S. and Charles F. Sabel. "The Federal No Child Left Behind Act and the Post-Desegregation Civil Rights Agenda." NCL Rev, vol. 81, no. 4, 2003, pp. 1703-1749.
• Dodds, Peter Sheridan, et al. "Information Exchange and the Robustness of Organizational Networks." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 100, no. 12, 2003, pp. 12516-12521.
• Sabel, Charles F. and Sanjay G. Reddy. "Learning to Learn: Untying the Gordian Knot of Development Today." Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 308, 2003.

• Gerstenberg, Oliver and Charles F. Sabel. "Directly Deliberative Polyarchy: An Institutional Ideal for Europe?" Good Governance in Europe’s Integrated Market, edited by Christian Joerges and Renaud Dehousse, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 289-341.

• Sabel, Charles F. "Diversity, Not Specialization: The Ties that Bind the (New) Industrial District." Complexity and Industrial Clusters - Dynamics, Models, National Cases, edited by Alberto Quadrio Curzio and Marco Fortis, Physica-Verlag HD, 2002, pp. 107-122. In Italian: “Diversita, non specializzazione: i legami che uniscono il (nuovo) distretto industrial.” Complessita e Distretti Industriali - Dinamiche, Modelli, Casi Reali, Societa editrice il Mulino, 2002.

• Helper, Susan, et al. "Pragmatic Collaborations: Advancing Knowledge while Controlling Opportunism." Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 9, no. 3, 2000, pp. 443-488. In Italian: “Collaborazioni pragmatiche: migliorare le conoscenze controllando l’opportunismo.” Impresa senza confini: Percorsi, strategie e regolazione dell’outsourcing nel post-fordismo maturo, edited by Giuseppe Bonazzi and Serafino Negrelli, FrancoAngeli, 2003, pp. 13-55.
• Sabel, Charles F. and Rory O’Donnell. "Democratic Experimentalism: What to Do about Wicked Problems After Whitehall." Devolution and Globalisation: Implications for Local Decision-makers edited by Jonathan Graham Potter, OECD, 2001, pp. 67-90.
• Sabel, Charles F., et al. "Ratcheting Labor Standards." World Bank Social Protection Discussion Paper No. 0011, May 2000. Also in Visions of Ethical Sourcing, edited by Raj Thamotheram, Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2000; Financial Times; and "The Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights." University of Michigan, 2000.
• Sabel, Charles F. "An Unlikely Democracy: The US at the Millennium." Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft. 2000.
• Dorf, Michael C. and Charles F. Sabel. "Drug Treatment Courts and Emergent Experimentalist Government." Vand. L. Rev., vol. 53, no. 3, 2000, pp. 829-884.
• Sabel, Charles F., et al. "Beyond Backyard Environmentalism: A New Democracy Forum with Charles Sabel, Archon Fung, and Bradley Karkkainen." New Democracy Forum, edited by Josh Cohen and Joel Rogers, Beacon Press, 2000.
• Responses to Backyard Environmentalism
• Reply to Responses
• Boston Review version

• Sabel, Charles F., et al. "Open Labor Standards: Towards a System of Rolling Rule Regulation of Labor Practices,” discussion paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the World Bank, Seminar on Labor Standards, in Washington D.C., September 1999.

• Dorf, Michael C. and Charles F. Sabel. "A Constitution of Democratic Experimentalism." Colum. L. Rev., vol. 98, no. 2, 1998, pp. 267-473.
• "Regionalismo sperimentale e i dilemmi della politica economica regionale in Europa," in Neoregionalismo, P. Perulli, Ed., First ed. (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri editore, 1998), pp. 70-110.

• Cohen, Joshua and Charles F. Sabel. "Directly-Deliberative Polyarchy.” European Law Journal, vol. 3, no. 4, 1997, pp. 313-342.
• Sabel, Charles F. "Design, Deliberation, and Democracy: On the New Pragmatism of Firms and Public Institutions.” Liberal Institutions, Economic Constitutional Rights, and the Role of Organizations, edited by Karl-Heinz Ladeur, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1997, pp. 101-149.
• "Constitutional Orders: Trust Building and Response to Change," in Contemporary Capitalism: The Embeddedness of Institutions, J. R. Hollingsworth and R. Boyer, eds. (Cambridge, England and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 154-188.
• "Foreward," in In the Shadow of the Tiger: New Approaches to Combating Social Exclusion, P. Kirby and D. Jacobson, Eds. (Dublin: Dublin City University Press, 1998,) pp. xi-xiii.
• "Rappresentanza del lavoro autonomo e coordinamento economico. Il caso degli enti bilaterali dell'artigianato," in Il Lavoro Autonomo di Seconda Generazione, S. Bologna and A. Fumagalli, Eds. (Milan: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, May 1997.)
• "Craft Production In Crisis:Industrial Restructuring in Germany During the 1990s" with Gary Herrigel, in Hedging Bets on Growth in Globalizing Industrial Order: Lessons for Asian NIEs, LeeJay Cho and YH Kim eds., (Seoul, South Korea: KDI Press, December 1997).

Publications
Books & Edited Volumes

• 2022 Fixing the Climate with David Victor, under review by Princeton University Press.
• 2013 Esperimenti di nuova democrazia. Tra globalizzazione e localizzazione, introduction by Riccardo Prandini (Rome: Armando, 2013). awarded the Premio Capri - S. Michele 2013
• 2009 Experimentalist Governance in the European Union, Towards A New Architecture, with Jonathan Zeitlin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
• 2001 Can We Put an End to Sweatshops? with Archon Fung and Dara O'Rourke (Boston, MA: Beacon Press).
• 1997 World of Possibilities, with Jonathan Zeitlin (Cambridge, England and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
• 1996 Local Partnerships and Social Innovation: Ireland. (Dublin: OECD).
• 1995 Small and Medium-Size Enterprises with Arnaldo Bagnasco (London: Pinter, 1995).
• 1994 PME et dveloppement conomique en Europe, with Arnaldo Bagnasco (Paris: La Découverte, 1994).
• 1989 Strategie di riaggiustamento industriale, with Marino Regini (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1989).
• 1984 The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity, with Michael J. Piore (New York: Basic Books, 1984). Published in German, Spanish, French, Italian and Japanese translation.
• 1982 Work and Politics: The Division of Labor in Industry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982). Published in German, Italian and Spanish translation.
• 1978 Konomische Krisentendenzen im gegenwrtigen Kapitalismus, with Gernot Mller, Ulrich Rdel, Frank Stille, and Winfried Vogt (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1978).
  

• 1996 "Constitutional Orders: Trust Building and Response to Change." Roger Hollingsworth and Robert Boyer, eds., Contemporary Capitalism: The Embeddedness of Institutions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
• 1996 "Intelligible Differences: On Deliberate Strategy and the Exploration of Possibility in Economic Life." Rivista Italiana degli Economisti (Journal of the Societ Italiana degli Economisti), Anno 1 (April 1996), n. 1, pp. 55-80.
• 1996 "A Measure of Federalism: Assessing Manufacturing Technology Centers." In Research Policy, Volume 25 (1996), pp. 281-307.
• 1996 "Ungoverned Production: An American View of the Novel Universalism of Japanese Production Methods and Their Awkward Fit with Current Forms of Corporate Governance." Worldspeaker, Summer 1996.
• 1996 "Gli enti bilaterali dopo l'inizio: tre approcci a una interpretazione operativa." Rivista quadrimestrale della Associazione Lavoro e Ricerche.
• 1996 "Learning by Monitoring: The Dilemmas of Regional Economic Policy in Europe." In Networks of Enterprises and Local Development (Paris: OECD Territorial Development), pp. 23-51.
• 1995 "Meta-Corporations and Open Labor Markets: Some Consequences of the Reintegration of Conception and Execution in a Volatile Economy." In Wolfgang Littek and Tony Charles, eds., The New Division of Labour: Emerging Forms of Work Organisation in International Perspective (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1996), pp. 57-94.
• 1995 "Stabilization Through Reorganization? Some Preliminary Implications of Russia’s Entry into World Markets in the Age of Discursive Quality Standards," with Jane Prokop. In Roman Frydman, Andrzej Rapaczynski, and Cheryl Gray, eds., Corporate Governance in Central Europe and Russia, Vol. II. World Bank/Central European University Privatization Project Publication (Budapest: CEU Press, 1996), pp. 151-191.
• 1995 "Experimental Regionalism and the Dilemmas of Regional Economic Policy in Europe," paper presented to the International Seminar on Local Systems of Small Firms and Job Creation, June 1-2, 1995, OECD, Paris, France.
• 1995 "Bootstrapping Reform: Rebuilding Firms, the Welfare State and Unions." Politics and Society, vol. 23, no. 1, March 1995, pp. 5-48, and as "'Bootstrapping-Reform' oder: Revolutionrer Reformismus und die Erneuerung von Firmen, Gewerkschaften und Wohlfahrtsstaat im regionalen Kontext" in Regionale Modernisierungspolitik: Nationale und Internationale Perspektiven (Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 1997), pp. 15-52.
• 1994 "Learning by Monitoring: The Institutions of Economic Development." In Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg, eds., Handbook of Economic Sociology (Princeton: Princeton University Press and Russell Sage Foundation, 1994), pp. 137-165, and in Lloyd Rodwin and Donald A. Schon, eds., Rethinking the Development Experience: Essays Provoked by the Work of Albert O. Hirschman (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution and Lincoln Institute, 1994), pp. 231-274.
• 1994 "Verblate Tugenden: Zur Krise des deutschen Produktionsmodells," with Horst Kern. In Soziale Welt, Sonderband 9: Umbrche gesellschaftlicher Arbeit (1994), pp. 605-624.
• 1994 "Un virage ngocier pour les districts industriels." In Sabel and Arnaldo Bagnasco, eds., PME et dveloppement conomique en Europe (Paris: La Dcouverte, 1994), pp. 159-188.
• 1994 "Large Firms and Small: Where They Are in Europe Viewed From Where They WERE." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cooperation and Competitiveness (Lisbon, October 1993), pp. 55-73.
• 1993 "Constitutional Ordering in Historical Context." In Fritz W. Scharpf, ed., Games in Hierarchies and Networks (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993), pp. 65-123. A revised version is forthcoming in Robert Boyer and Rogers Hollingsworth, eds., Governance of Capitalist Economies.
• 1993 "Can the End of the Social Democratic Trade Unions be the Beginning of a New Kind of Social Democratic Politics?" In Stephen R. Sleigh, ed., Economic Restructuring and Emerging Patterns of Industrial Relations (Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1993), pp. 137-165.
• 1993 "Making Money Talk: Towards a New Debtor-Creditor Relation in German Banking," with Richard E. Deeg and John R. Griffin. In John C. Coffee, Ronald J. Gilson and Louis Lowenstein, eds., Relational Investing (New York: Oxford University Press).
• 1993 "Stories, Strategies, Structures: Rethinking Historical Alternatives to Mass Production." In Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin, eds., World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 1-33.
• 1993 "Die Treuhandanstalt: Experimentierfeld zur Entwicklung neuer Unternehmensformen," with Horst Kern. In Wolfram Fischer, Herbert Hax, and Hans Karl Schneider, eds., Treuhandanstalt Das Unmgliche wagen (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1993), pp. 481-504.
• 1993 "Zwischen Baum und Borke: Zur Unsicherheit der Treuhand, was sie als nchstes sagen sollte" (Between Pillar and Post: Reflections on the Treuhand’s Uncertainty about What to Say Next), with Horst Kern, in SOFI Mitteilungen, no. 19 (1992), pp. 61-78.
• 1992 "Studied Trust: Building New Forms of Cooperation in a Volatile Economy." In Frank Pyke and Werner Sengenberger, eds., Industrial Districts and Local Economic Regeneration (Geneva: International Institute for Labour Studies, 1992), pp. 215-250. Reprinted in Dominique Foray and Christopher Freeman, eds., Technology and the Wealth of Nations: The Dynamics of Constructed Advantage (London: Pinter Publishers, 1993), pp. 332-352; Human Relations, vol. 46, no. 9 (1993), pp. 1133-1170; and Richard Swedberg, ed., Explorations in Economic Sociology (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993), pp. 104-144.
• 1992 "The Small Holder Economy in Denmark: The Exception as Variation," with Peer Hull Kristensen. In Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin, eds., World of Possibility: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 344-378.
• 1991 "Reputations Do Not Make Markets: A Comment on J. Bradford De Long's Did J. P. Morgan's Men Add Value? An Economist's Perspective on Financial Capitalism." In Peter Temin, ed., Inside the Business Enterprise: Historical Perspectives on the Use of Information (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), pp. 236-249.
• 1991 "Kooperative Produktion: Neue Formen der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Endfertigern und Zulieferern in der Automobilindustrie und die Neuordnung der Firma" (Collaborative Manufacturing: New Supplier Relations in the Automobile Industry and the Redefinition of the Industrial Corporation), with Horst Kern and Gary Herrigel. In H.G. Mendius and U. Wendeling-Schrder, eds., Zulieferer im Netz -- Zwischen Abhngigkeit und Partnerschaft (Kln: Bund Verlag, 1991), pp. 203-227.
• 1991 "Moebius-Strip Organizations and Open Labor Markets: Some Consequences of the Reintegration of Conception and Execution in a Volatile Economy." In James Coleman and Pierre Bourdieu, eds., Social Theory for a Changing Society (Boulder: Westview Press, 1991), pp. 23-63; and forthcoming in Tony Charles and Wolfgang Littek, eds., The New Division of Labour.
• 1991 "Trade Unions and Decentralized Production: A Sketch of Strategic Problems in the West German Labor Movement," with Horst Kern. In Marino Regini, ed., The Future of Labor Movements (London: Sage, 1992), pp. 217-249; and Politics and Society, vol. 19, no. 4 (1991), pp. 373-402. An earlier version was published under the title "Gewerkschaften in offenen Arbeitsmrkten. berlegungen zur Rolle der Gewerkschaften in der industriellen Reorganisation," in Soziale Welt, vol. 41, no. 2 (1990), pp. 144-166.
• 1989 "Flexible Specialization and the Re-emergence of Regional Economies." In Paul Hirst and Jonathan Zeitlin, eds., Reversing Industrial Decline? Industrial Structure and Policy in Britain and Her Competitors (Oxford: Berg, 1989), pp. 17-70; and Ash Amin, ed., Post-Fordism: A Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 101-156.
• 1989 "Le strategie di riaggiustamento industriale in Italia: uno sguardo d'insieme in chiave comparata," with Marino Regini. In Charles F. Sabel and Marino Regini, eds., Strategie di riaggiustamento industriale (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1989), pp. 11-59; and Stato e Mercato, no. 24 (1988), pp. 306-346.
• 1989 "Regional Prosperities Compared: Massachusetts and Baden-Wrttemberg," with Gary Herrigel, Richard Deeg, and Richard Kazis. In Economy and Society, vol. 18, no. 4 (November 1991), pp. 374-404. Reprinted in Ulrich Hilpert, ed., Regional Innovation and Decentralization: High Tech Industry and Government Policy (London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 177-196.
• 1988 "Protoindustry and the Problem of Capitalism as a Concept," in International Labor and Working-Class History, no. 33 (Spring 1988), pp. 30-37.
• 1986 "Changing Models of Economic Efficiency and Their Implications for Industrialization in the Third World." In Alejandro Foxley, Michael S. McPherson, and Guillermo O'Donnell, eds., Development, Democracy and the Art of Trespassing: Essays in Honor of Albert O. Hirschman (South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986), pp. 27-55. Reprinted in Julio Echeverria, ed., Globalization, Flexibility and New Models of Productivity: Firms, Trade Unions, and Social Actors (Quito, Ecuador: Nariz del Diablo, 1993).
• 1986 "Struktureller Wandel der Produktion und neue gewerkschaftliche Strategien," in Prokla 62 (March 1986), pp. 41-60. Reprinted as "A Fighting Chance: Structural Change and New Labor Strategies," in International Journal of Political Economy, vol. 17, no. 3 (Fall 1987), pp. 26-56.
• 1986 "Industrializzazione del Terzo Mondo e nuovi modelli produttivi," in Stato e Mercato, no. 17 (August 1986), pp. 217-251.
• 1985 "Historical Alternatives to Mass Production," with Jonathan Zeitlin, in Past and Present, no. 108 (August 1985), pp. 133-176. An earlier version appeared in Italian translation in Stato e Mercato, no. 5 (August 1982), pp. 213-258.
• 1985 "Industrial Relations and Industrial Adjustment in the Car Industry," with Harry Katz, in Industrial Relations, vol. 24, no. 3 (Fall 1985). Excerpted in Technology Review, vol. 88, no. 7 (October 1985), pp. 54-61, under the title, "The Future of Automaking: What Role for Unions."
• 1984 "Industrial Reorganization and Social Democracy in Austria," in Industrial Relations, vol. 23, no. 3 (Fall 1984), pp. 344-361.
• 1984 "Le innovazioni tecnologiche nelle imprese di dimensioni piccole e medie." In Gilberto Antonelli, ed., Innovazioni tecnologiche e struttura produttiva: la posizione dell'Italia (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1984), pp. 45-75.
• 1983 "Italian Small Business Development: Lessons for U.S. Policy," with Michael J. Piore. In John Zysman and Laura Tyson, eds., American Industry in International Competition: Government Policies and Corporate Strategies (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983), pp. 391-421.
• 1983 "Neo-Fordism or Flexible Specialization? The Micro-Politics of Industrial Reorganization." In Helmut Kramer and Felix Butschek, eds., Strukturpolitik als Dimension der Vollbeschftigungspolitik (Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1983), pp. 59-75.
• 1983 "Kontrollierte Flexibilitt." In Anton Benya and Charles F. Sabel, eds., Gewerkschaftsstrategie in den achtziger Jahren (Vienna: Verlag des sterreichischen Gewerkschaftsbundes, 1983).
• 1982 "Class Conflict and the Social Democratic Reform Cycle in Germany," with Mary Nolan. In Gosta Esping-Andersen and Roger Friedland, eds., Political Power and Social Theory, vol. 3 (1982), pp. 145-173.
• 1982 "Planning, Politics, and Shop-Floor Power: Hidden Forms of Bargaining in Soviet-Imposed State-Socialist Societies," with David Stark, in Politics and Society, vol. 11, no. 4 (1982), pp. 439-475.
• 1981 "Artisan Production and Economic Growth," with Sebastiano Brusco. In Frank Wilkenson, ed., The Dynamics of Labor Market Segmentation (London: Academic Press, 1981), pp. 99-113.
• 1981 "The Internal Politics of Trade Unions." In Suzanne Berger, ed., Organizing Interests in Western Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), pp. 209-244.
• 1979 "Marginal Workers in Industrial Society," in Challenge, vol. 22, no. 1 (March-April 1979), pp. 22-32; also in Michael J. Piore, ed., Unemployment and Inflation: Institutionalist and Structuralist Views (White Plains, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1979), pp. 170-185.
• 1979 "Business Unions in den U.S.A. "Eine Verteidigung gegen ihre falschen Feinde," with Richard Herding. In Joachim Bergmann, ed., Beitrge zur Soziologie der Gewerkschaften (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1979), pp. 262-286.
• 1978 "Zur relativen Autonomie der Deutungsmuster" (On the Relative Autonomy of World-Views), with Hartmut Neuendorff. In Transactions of the 18th Congress of Germany Sociologists; and in French translation, in Sociologie du travail 20 (January-March 1978), pp. 68-75.

• 1993 "State of the Unions (and Why You Should Care)," with Joel Rogers. In Inc Magazine, January 1994, pp. 23-24.
• 1993 "Imagining Unions," in Boston Review, vol. 18, no. 5 (October/November 1993), pp. 10-12.
• 1989 "Left Behind at the Forge" (review of Mark Reutter, Sparrows Point, and John P. Hoerr, And the Wolf Finally Came). New York Times Book Review, February 5, 1989, pp. 3, 30.
• 1987 "How to Keep Mature Industries Innovative," with Gary Herrigel, Richard Kazis, and Richard Deeg, in Technology Review, vol. 90, no. 3 (April 1987), pp. 26-35. Reprinted in abridged form in The New York Times, June 14, 1987, p. B2.
• 1987 "Un metr nel centro del mondo," in L'Unita, Oct. 22, 1987, p. 12. (Review of Red Grooms Exhibition at the Whitney Museum, New York City, October, 1987.)
• 1983 "La new Italy della piccola impressa," in Politica ed Economia (July-August 1983), pp. 73-75.
• 1980 "Piccole imprese, professionalita, alleanze di classe," with Adele Pesce, in I Consigli, new series (July 1980), pp. 57-64.
• 1979 "Rationalization and Unemployment in Germany: Their Impact on a Fragile Truce." Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Association Annual Meeting (December 28, 1979, Atlanta, GA), pp. 316-324.
• 1978 "Ambiguities of Class and the Possibility of Politics," in Proceedings of the Third International Colloquium of the Inter-University Center of Montreal (March 1978), pp. 257-279.
• 1978 Review of Ivar Berg, et al., Managers and Work Reform: A Limited Engagement, in Challenge, vol. 22, no. 3 (July-August 1979), pp. 64-66.