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Industrial Transformation in Europe offers material for a broader understanding of international industrial and organizational transformations. The chapters examine the economic management activities of state agencies in the move from command to market economies and the attempted creation of viable forms for such economies. It considers the changing roles of different interest groups in these processes and the dynamic forms of corporatism emerging today. Looking at various aspects and examples of the restructuring of work systems, including the building of new forms of labor relations in post-socialist Europe, this volume provides an in-depth analysis of the role of foreign capital and multinationals which can operate as powerful forces shaping governmental industrial strategies. This volume is essential reading for all those interested in emergent developments in Europe, particularly in central and Eastern Europe. At a time when the many facets and implications of globalization are demanding industrial and organizational transformations, Industrial Transformation in Europe makes a notable contribution to more general organization theory through its analysis of the complexities of organizational change.
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This volume is essential reading for all those interested in emergent developments in Europe. At a time when the forces of globalization are demanding industrial and organizational transformations throughout industrialized and industrializing nations, the book also makes a notable contribution through its unique analysis of the complexities, diversities and socio-political embeddedness of such major change.
Focusing particularly on central and eastern Europe, the contributors examine the economic management activities of state agencies in the move from command to market economies and the attempted creation of viable firms for such economies. They look at the changing roles of different interest groups and the various forms
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Focusing particularly on central and eastern Europe, the contributors to this book examine the economic management activities of state agencies in the move from command to market economies and the attempted creation of viable firms for such economies. The role of foreign capital and multinationals in shaping host government industrial strategies is addressed, and the ways in which relatively successful industrial regimes can suffer from a lack of flexibility in the face of outside forces are also discussed.