ISBN:
9780415809634
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (271 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Business Leaders and New Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Communist Europe
DDC:
306.3/420943
Keywords:
Elite (Social sciences) -- Europe, Eastern
;
Leaders -- Europe, Eastern
;
Capitalism -- Europe, Eastern
;
Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Business leaders exert extraordinary influence on institution building in market economies but they think and act within institutional settings. This book combines both an elite approach with a varieties-of-capitalism approach. Comparing Poland, Hungary and East and West Germany, we perceive the transformations in East Central Europe and in Germany after 1989 as being intertwined. Based on a joint survey, this book seeks to measure the level of the convergence of ideas among European business leaders, assuming it to be more extensive than the institutional convergence expected under
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: business leaders and the new varieties of capitalism in post-communist Europe; 2 Institutional transformation and business leaders of the new foreign-led capitalism in Poland; 3 The 'small transformation' in Hungary: Institutional changes and economic actors; 4 The long shadow of the 'German model': business leaders in social and institutional change
Description / Table of Contents:
5 From 'deputy revolution' to markets for executives? Social origin, careers and generational change of business leaders twenty years after regime change6 Contractual trust: the long shadow of the shadow economy; 7 Varying concepts of corporate social responsibility: beliefs and practices in Central Europe; 8 Institutions or attitudes? The role of formal worker representation in labour relations; 9 Income and influence: Hungarian, Polish and German business leaders compared; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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