#4512. New Interest Associations in a Neo-Corporatist System: Adapting the Swiss Training System to the Service Economy

August 2026publication date
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Business, Management and Accounting (all);
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management;
Management of Technology and Innovation;
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Abstract:
Collective skill formation systems need to adapt to economic change, most notably the expansion of the. However, deeply anchored in the craft and industrial sectors, these systems rely on neo-corporatist institutions to undergird firms’ training provision, which are often missing in the service sector. We show that Switzerlands voluntaristic approach to interest intermediation provided the flexibility needed to extend vocational training to economic sectors without. Yet, these adaptations resulted in the emergence of interest associations characterised by and governability. These new associations co-exist with neo-corporatist ones, rendering the overall surprisingly heterogeneous.
Keywords:
Service economy; neo-corporate institutions; low level of generalization; education system

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