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Author: Akos Rona-Tas
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780472107957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKViews the fall of Communism in Hungary as the result of the erosion of universal state employment and the development of an informal private sector during the time of Communist rule
Author: Anna Seleny
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-02-13
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 052183564X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows how Hungary and Poland led the transformations that brought down Communism.
Author: Katharina Bluhm
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-23
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1136023445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBusiness 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 the dominance of neoliberal discourse. Analyzing the institutional framework, organizational features like size, ownership and labour relations, and subjective characteristics like age, social origin, career patterns and attitudes of the recent business elites, we found significant differences between countries and the types of organization. The growing importance of economic degrees and internationalization shows astonishingly little explanatory power on the views of business leaders. The idea of a coordinated market economy is still relatively widespread among Germans, while their Hungarian and Polish counterparts are more likely to display a minimalist view of corporate responsibility to society and adverse attitudes towards employee representation. However, their attitudes frequently tend to be inconsistent, which mirrors the mixed type of capitalism in East Central Europe.
Author: David L. Bartlett
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1997-01-07
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780472107940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShows how market reform and democratization are compatible in former Communist countries
Author: Peter Meusburger
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 3642575846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the first decade after the turn towards democracy and market economy, Hungary's society experienced profound changes. The book analyses related political, legal, institutional and socio-economic structures and processes in order to contribute to a further understanding of Hungary's ongoing transformation processes and its current situation as one of the leading candidates for EU membership. The topics include constitutive elements of a modern market economy as well as education, income structures, the poverty situation, post-communist voting behaviour, regional and urban development and Hungary's cross-border co-operations. The role of Budapest within the European city system and Hungary's economic situation within Europe are also discussed. Drawing together comprehensive empirical data and a geat variety of viewpoints, the book offers innovative examples of the application of different theoretical approaches to transformation studies and studies of economy and society in general.
Author: Ulrike Schuerkens
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-06-10
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1136954074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers analytical and comparative insights from case studies of social inequality in eleven countries within the major regions of the world.
Author: Lynne Haney
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-06-03
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0520936108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInventing the Needy offers a powerful, innovative analysis of welfare policies and practices in Hungary from 1948 to the last decade of the twentieth century. Using a compelling mix of archival, interview, and ethnographic data, Lynne Haney shows that three distinct welfare regimes succeeded one another during that period and that they were based on divergent conceptions of need. The welfare society of 1948-1968 targeted social institutions, the maternalist welfare state of 1968-1985 targeted social groups, and the liberal welfare state of 1985-1996 targeted impoverished individuals. Because they reflected contrasting conceptions of gender and of state-recognized identities, these three regimes resulted in dramatically different lived experiences of welfare. Haney's approach bridges the gaps in scholarship that frequently separate past and present, ideology and reality, and state policies and local practices. A wealth of case histories gleaned from the archives of welfare institutions brings to life the interactions between caseworkers and clients and the ways they changed over time. In one of her most provocative findings, Haney argues that female clients' ability to use the state to protect themselves in everyday life diminished over the fifty-year period. As the welfare system moved away from linking entitlement to clients' social contributions and toward their material deprivation, the welfare system, and those associated with it, became increasingly stigmatized and pathologized. With its focus on shifting inventions of the needy, this broad historical ethnography brings new insights to the study of welfare state theory and politics.
Author: Al Rainnie
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0415249422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection brings together a series of essays by leading international scholars highlighting the varied and complex forms which work and employment restructuring are taking in the post-Soviet world.
Author: Vladimir Banacek
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-06-01
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1134368658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe transformation of state-owned enterprises into privately owned ones is commonly referred to as 'privatization'. Just as important as this process, though sometimes not given the attention it deserves and requires, is the establishment and expansion of new private firms. This book analyzes new entrepreneurial firms that emerge and occasionally flourish after a period of state communism has come to an end. The authors rightly focus on the aftermath of the end of communism by looking first at the inevitable output decline, followed by an overview of new entrepreneurial firms. Specific East European examples are examined and the lessons which can be learned from these will interest academics and policy-makers alike. Committed and knowledgeable authors in this book treat the sometimes emotive issue of transition-developing economies maturely and expertly. The result is a volume which will interest scholars with an interest in transition economics and politics, as well as those who actively work in transition economies.
Author: Jerry Fjermestad
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780765620156
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Sustainable strategic management" refers to strategic management processes that seek competitive advantages consistent with a core value for environmental sustainability. This volume has been designed as a supplement to traditional texts in graduate and undergraduate strategic management courses.
