Transforming Management in Central and Eastern Europe

An analysis and comparison of changes in enterprises in seven European transitional economies since 1989. This study argues that these countries are developing a distinctive, hybrid form of politicized managerial capitalism. Competition - not privatization - has transformed management practice.
Transforming Management in Central and Eastern Europe analyses changes in enterprises in seven European countries since 1989 - Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Slovakia. Economic trends have differed vastly between these countries, but nevertheless, there are common objectives, common problems, and significant similarities in developments. This book shows the continuities, as well as the discontinuities, between the
Socialist and the post-Socialist periods. It argues that Central and Eastern European countries are developing a distinctive, hybrid form of post-Socialist economic system, largely dominated by enterprise managers in alliance with state administrations-politicized managerial capitalism. Privatization has not
transformed management practices, competition has.