Digital markets, competition regimes and models of capitalism: A comparative institutional analysis of European and US responses to Google

Author:

Kornelakis Andreas12ORCID,Hublart Pauline2

Affiliation:

1. King’s College London, King’s Business School, UK

2. Independent Researcher, Luxembourg, Germany

Abstract

The comparative capitalism literature examined how institutions vary on a national or societal level and how these differences affect multinational companies’ strategies. Yet, little attention has been devoted to cross-national or regional differences in the governance of competition, especially in the context of digitalization of markets. The article seeks to fill this gap by looking at the case of Google. It traces the process of the stark US–EU disagreement over Google’s abuse of dominant position in digital markets, which resulted in one of the largest fines in the EU history. It is argued that the variation in the response to the company’s market and nonmarket strategies are traced back to differences between Ordoliberal and Chicago School ideas, which are embedded in the ‘competition regimes’ of European and US capitalist models. The article concludes by discussing the implications of these findings for varieties of capitalism frameworks.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

General Business, Management and Accounting

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