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...
Recent transitional developments in the former communist countries have aroused considerable interest among economists and political scientists alike....
This book discusses the personal and professional challenges of conducting fieldwork in the difficult, sometimes threatening contexts of the transforming societies of post-socialist Europe and China. Field research is a distinctly human effort and the social relationships between researchers, third parties and respondents directly affect the quality of research findings. With unusual frankness, the authors share their personal field experiences and discuss both the imaginative strategies they have devised to cope with problems and the methodological lessons they have learned.
This book discusses the personal and professional challenges of conducting fieldwork in the difficult, sometimes threatening contexts of the transform...
