Jutta Howard earned her Ph.D. from the School of Management at Royal Holloway, University of London. UK. She has been teaching courses in management, marketing and international business in Southern California.

’With the fall of European communism, privatization of the state owned enterprises was swifter and more complete in East Germany than elsewhere. Jutta Howard has given us a fascinating and insightful account of the work of the Treuhandanstalt, the body that spearheaded the process.’ Peter Lawrence, Professor of International Management, Loughborough University, UK

• Contents: Introduction; The Treuhandanstalt and the privatization process; The Treuhandanstalt, stakeholders and organizational effectiveness; Buying into the former East Germany: motives, experiences and lessons of the privatization process; Employees and management as stakeholders: learning and management in an era of extreme uncertainty; Environmental turbulence and the management of public perceptions; The inheritance and prospects of the successor organizations; Conclusion: legacy and evaluation; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

Jutta Howard earned her Ph.D. from the School of Management at Royal Holloway, University of London. UK. She has been teaching courses in management, marketing and international business in Southern California.

’With the fall of European communism, privatization of the state owned enterprises was swifter and more complete in East Germany than elsewhere. Jutta Howard has given us a fascinating and insightful account of the work of the Treuhandanstalt, the body that spearheaded the process.’ Peter Lawrence, Professor of International Management, Loughborough University, UK

• Contents: Introduction; The Treuhandanstalt and the privatization process; The Treuhandanstalt, stakeholders and organizational effectiveness; Buying into the former East Germany: motives, experiences and lessons of the privatization process; Employees and management as stakeholders: learning and management in an era of extreme uncertainty; Environmental turbulence and the management of public perceptions; The inheritance and prospects of the successor organizations; Conclusion: legacy and evaluation; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

Jutta Howard earned her Ph.D. from the School of Management at Royal Holloway, University of London. UK. She has been teaching courses in management, marketing and international business in Southern California.

’With the fall of European communism, privatization of the state owned enterprises was swifter and more complete in East Germany than elsewhere. Jutta Howard has given us a fascinating and insightful account of the work of the Treuhandanstalt, the body that spearheaded the process.’ Peter Lawrence, Professor of International Management, Loughborough University, UK

• Contents: Introduction; The Treuhandanstalt and the privatization process; The Treuhandanstalt, stakeholders and organizational effectiveness; Buying into the former East Germany: motives, experiences and lessons of the privatization process; Employees and management as stakeholders: learning and management in an era of extreme uncertainty; Environmental turbulence and the management of public perceptions; The inheritance and prospects of the successor organizations; Conclusion: legacy and evaluation; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.