Paper to be presented at the DRUID Summer Conference 2004 on INDUSTRIAL DYNAMICS, INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT Elsinore, Denmark, June 14-16, 2004 Theme A-F Theme A: Systems of Innovation, Growth and Development; Theme B: Competence Building and its Institutional underpinnings; Theme C: Technical Change, Corporate Dynamics and Innovation; Theme D: The Global Knowledge Divide, International Learning and Intellectual Proporty Rights; Theme E: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Growth; Theme F: Networks, Clusters and other inter-firm relations as Vehicles for Knowledge Building and Transfer. Organisational Change in Europe: National Models or the Diffusion of a New ‘One Best Way’? Edward Lorenz IDEFI - CNRS edward.lorenz@cnrs.idefi.fr Antoine Valeyre Centre d’Etudes de l’Emploi - CNRS Valeyre@mail.enpc.fr May 4, 2004 Abstract A few keywords: JEL – codes: