Privatization and Entrepreneurship

The Managerial Challenge in Central and Eastern Europe

Erdener Kaynak, Alfred Lewis, Arieh A Ullmann (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

398 Seiten

1996
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-56024-972-6 (ISBN)

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Privatization and Entrepreneurship: The Managerial Challenge in Central and Eastern Europe analyzes the challenges faced by managers in the transforming economies of Central and Eastern Europe and provides penetrating insights into the details of managing in the former socialist countries. This collection’s combination of conceptual/theoretical material with empirical, firsthand case analysis prepares Western managers for a more profitable and less stressful entry into these significant markets.This enlightening book highlights the complexity and breadth of the issues and problems of successfully entering new markets in Central and Eastern Europe. Along the way, you are introduced to such topics as consumer behavior and shown the different forms of foreign direct investment with their associated problems and benefits. If you are searching for ways to better prepare for business in these markets, this book can help you meet your objectives with its helpful information on:

ethical concerns and linguistic difficulties of managing in transforming economies
management challenges of privatization
management challenges of entrepreneurship
strategic issues associated with the reorientation of enterprises
corporate constituencies, changing consumers, labor unions, and pay practicesPrivatization and Entrepreneurship will prove valuable to policymakers in economic development and foreign aid agencies, executives of companies planning to expand into Europe and those already active in the region, and academicians and students in management, economics, and political science.

Kaynak, Erdener; Lewis, Alfred; Ullmann, Arieh A

Contents
Introduction

Part I: Prerequisites for Management Transition
Ethical Problems When Moving to Markets: Gaining Efficiency While Keeping an Eye on Distributive Justice
The Stories Hidden in the Words We Use: A Constructivist Analysis of Business Language as a Device for Cultural Encoding
The Institutional Requisites of Capitalism
Where Is the Research From Central and Eastern Europe?
Part II: Management Challenges of Privatization
Managerial Implications of the Transition From Public to Private Ownership in Central and Eastern Europe: Are Managers Equipped to Compete?
Comparing Privatization Characteristics in Former Communist, Developing, and Developed Countries
First-Rate Furniture Firm
Managerial Challenges During Organizational Re-Creation: Industrial Companies in the Czech Republic
Transformation and Marketing Developments in Skala of Hungary
Part III: Management Challenges of Entrepreneurship
Foreign Direct Investment Linkages and Entrepreneurial Development in Poland: Two Case Studies
Entrepreneurs in Post-Communist Russia
Critical Success Factors for Entrepreneurial Ventures
Part IV: Strategic and Operational Reorientation
Influences on Strategic Decision Making in the Romanian Banking Industry
Hungarian Enterprises: Marketing in Transition
Patent Protection for Central and Eastern Europe: Lessons From the West
Reactions to Organizational Structure: A Comparison of Employers in the United States and Bulgaria
Dual Restructuring: Survival of Newly Privatized Companies in Eastern Europe
Part V: Employees and Consumers in a New Context
Labor Relations and Policies in Hungary and Poland: Implications for Western Human Resource Managers
Russian Pay Practices, Preferences, and Distributive Justice Judgments: Implications for Joint Ventures
Life and Consumption Styles in the New Bundeslanders Five Years After the Collapse of the Berlin Wall
Epilogue: The Managerial Challenge in Transition Economies
Index

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	900 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	1-56024-972-2 / 1560249722
ISBN-13	978-1-56024-972-6 / 9781560249726
Zustand	Neuware