Institutional Change and Industrial Development in Central and Eastern Europe

by Lorentzen, Anne; Widmaier, Brigitta; Laki, Mihaly

• ISBN13: 9780754610144
• ISBN10: 0754610144
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

Based on fresh and independent empirical research the book points at serious problems of the CEE industry. Evidence from manufacturing, from the energy sector, from the science and technology system and from the small business sector is brought together in this volume. It is shown that in CEE industry, product development is limited, environmental concerns not sufficiently considered, qualifications are frequently found inadequate and management practices not responding to the new requirements. From different scholarly viewpoints it is argued that due to persisting institutions and attitudes from the communist past and before, the innovative potentials of the CEE industries are left widely in-exploited and therefore competitiveness is not sufficiently increased despite liberalization and privatisation. Profound changes are needed in the technological infrastructure, in management practices and in the local and regional environment to enable new technological capabilities to develop and thus to save CEE from a role as international subcontractor.

Table of Contents

Continuity and Change of Industrial Production Enterprises

Technological change in Hungarian industry after 1989

Continuity amidst change

Hungarian enterprises in the mid-1990s

Inward investment and structural transformation.

The Change of Energy Systems

Restructuring Hungary's electricity sector: modernisation discourses and technological determinism

Energy planning and the ability to change: the East German example

Institutional change and electricity sector reform in transition economies

Science, Technology and Innovation in Industry

Knowledge and innovation in industry in Central and Eastern Europe

Competitiveness and technological capabilities in Baltic industry: future potentials in a historical perspective

A long way to go: the Hungarian science and technology policy in transition

Transition and the Path Dependency of Innovation Strategies

Industrial development and institutional diversity in Central and Eastern Europe: the cases of Ukraine and Poland

Industrial policy and small private businesses in extreme situations: the Hungarian case

Cultural perspectives on management issues in Hungary: foreign-owned production companies in transition

Index

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