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

• Contents IntroductionPart 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

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

• Contents IntroductionPart 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

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

• Contents IntroductionPart 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