Organizational Change in Post-Communist Europe: Management and Transformation in the Czech Republic

ISBN-13: 9780415203333 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 266 str.

Ed Clark; Edward Clark; Anna Soulsby

Opis

Recent transitional developments in the former communist countries have aroused considerable interest among economists and political scientists alike. Yet relatively little attention has been focused upon the ways in which these significant changes have impacted the micro realities of life within the transforming state-owned enterprises. This text provides a detailed examination of the complex processes of transformation in former state-owned enterprises in the Czech Republic. Drawing on case studies of organizational transformation, this book adopts a social-institutionalist approach to the study of organizational change, applying it in order to develop an explanation of organizational restructuring and management redefinition during the early transition period of 1990-1996. In particular, the authors highlight how these processes have been shaped by continuing historical state-socialist legacies and the powerful role played by senior managers in their efforts to fashion the new privatized organizations in their own interests.

Recenzje

'Clark and Soulsby provide a detailed and thought-provoking analysis of the process of societal transformation within the Czech republic. Furthermore, the research outlined here has considerable relevance for those interested in other transforming societies.' - Jon Oldfield, University of Birmingham

'...this is a valuable book. It forces the reader to re-examine processes of transformation in Central and Eastern Europe from a slightly different (socio-institutional) angle compared to more conventional studies in the area.' - Bert M. Sadowski, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Spis treści

Part 1 Backgrounds and Contexts; Chapter 1 Studying Organization and Management Change in the Czech Republic; Chapter 2 Institutions, Organizations and Management; Part 2 Enterprise and Management Under State Socialism; Chapter 3 The Czechoslovak State Socialist Economy; Chapter 4 State Enterprises and Their Management in Czechoslovakia; Chapter 5 Czechoslovak Management and Organization; Part 3 The Emergence of Post-Communist Management; Chapter 6 The Post-Communist Context of Organizational Transformation; Chapter 7 Management, Enterprises and Institutional Change; Chapter 8 Continuity and Inertia in Enterprise Transition; Chapter 9 The Redefining of Czech Management and Enterprise; Part 4 Conclusions; Chapter 10 Economic Transformation As Institutional Change;

O autorze

Ed Clark is Principal Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University.,
Anna Soulsby is a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at the same institution. Their joint work on the post-communist transition has been published extensively in European and American journals, including Organization Studies, The Journal of Socio-Economics and the International Journal of Human Resource Management.