Transforming Management in Central and Eastern Europe

by Martin, Roderick

• ISBN13: 9780198775683
• ISBN10: 0198775687
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 arecommon 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 ofpost-Socialist economic system, largely dominated by enterprise managers in alliance with state administrationsDSpoliticized managerial capitalism. Privatization has not transformed management practices, competition has.

Author Biography

Roderick Martin is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the University of Strathclyde. Previous posts have included Professor of Organizational Behaviour, University of Glasgow; Director, University of Glasgow Business School (1992-6); Fellow of Templeton College, Oxford University (1988-91); Professor of Industrial Sociology, Imperial College, London (1984-88); and Fellow in Politics and Sociology, Trinity College, Oxford University (1969-84). He was the Chairman of the East-West Research Programme, ESRC, from 1989 to 1994, and a member of the ESRC Social Affairs Committee and Research Grants Board from 1986 to 1992. He has held visiting posts at Monash University (1975,1998), Melbourne University (1980), and the Australian Graduate School of Management (1984, 1995).

Table of Contents

List of tables	xi
List of abbreviations	xii
Introduction: Transforming management	1	(8)
Political transformation	9	(20)
Introduction	9	(1)
Treatment of the ancien regime	10	(3)
Regime legitimation and the `civic culture'	13	(3)
Creation of coherent political parties	16	(4)
Pluralist structures	20	(5)
Relations between the executive and the legislature	25	(1)
Regional decentralization	26	(2)
Conclusion	28	(1)
Economic transformation: Collapse and recovery	29	(26)
Introduction	29	(1)
Socialist economic crisis	30	(4)
Macroeconomic trends after 1989	34	(6)
Banking systems	38	(2)
Labour market development after 1989	40	(5)
Employment	40	(4)
Wages	44	(1)
Macroeconomic policy after 1989	45	(8)
Conclusion	53	(2)
Marketization and privatization	55	(26)
Introduction	55	(1)
Marketization without privatization	56	(3)
Economic and political objectives of privatization	59	(12)
Methods of privatization	71	(6)
Conclusion: Emergent capitalism?	77	(4)
Management at the enterprise level	81	(24)
Introduction	81	(1)
Management strategies at the enterprise level	82	(5)
The emergent firm: Enterprise autonomy and new management structures	87	(7)
Interfirm relations	94	(3)
Emergent managerialism	97	(5)
Conclusion	102	(3)
Employment relations in transformation: The dog that did not bark	105	(27)
Introduction	105	(2)
National and sectoral-level institutions	107	(6)
Employers' organizations	110	(1)
Trade unions	111	(2)
Management strategies for employment relations at the enterprise level	113	(6)
Recruitment	119	(2)
Training	121	(3)
Wage policies	124	(3)
Redundancy	127	(2)
Conclusion	129	(3)
Western companies' approaches to business in CEE	132	(21)
Introduction	132	(1)
Market-entry strategies in CEE	133	(5)
Western investment in CEE	138	(6)
The business environment of CEE	144	(6)
Conclusion	150	(3)
Joint ventures	153	(20)
Introduction	153	(2)
Western companies' objectives	155	(5)
CEE attitudes to joint ventures	160	(3)
Management issues in developing joint ventures	163	(4)
Volkswagen-Skoda	167	(4)
Conclusion	171	(2)
Conclusion: Post-socialist management in CEE and the international economy	173	(14)
Introduction	173	(1)
Managerial capitalism	174	(9)
Ownership	176	(1)
Hierarchies and networks	177	(3)
The role of the state	180	(3)
CEE and the international environment	183	(4)
Bibliography	187	(20)
Index	207