This volume is essential reading for all those interested in emergent developments in Europe. At a time when the forces of globalization are demanding industrial and organizational transformations throughout industrialized and industrializing nations, the book also makes a notable contribution through its unique analysis of the complexities, diversities and socio-political embeddedness of such major change.
Focusing particularly on central and eastern Europe, the contributors examine the economic management activities of state agencies in the move from command to market economies and the attempted creation of viable firms for such economies. They look at the changing roles of different interest groups and the various forms of corporatism which are emerging. They also explore various aspects of the restructuring of work systems, including the building of new forms of labour relations in post-socialist Europe. The role of foreign capital and multinationals in shaping host government industrial strategies is addressed, and the ways in which relatively successful industrial regimes can suffer from a lack of flexibility in the face of outside forces are also discussed.
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Europe in Flux - Gert Schmidt
Change in East and West
Transformation and Change in Europe - Richard Whitley
Critical Themes
PART TWO: PATTERNS OF INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATION IN EUROPE: INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS
Introduction - Gert Schmidt
The Elegance of Incoherence - Gernot Grabher
Economic Transformation in East Germany and Hungary
From Privatization to Capitalization - Christian von Hirschhausen
Industrial Restructuring in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe
Contention and Confusion in Industrial Transformation - Jeffrey Henderson, Richard Whitley, Gyorgy Lengyel and Laszlo Czaban
Dilemmas of State Economic Management
Organizing Markets in Central and Eastern Europe - Hugo Radice
Competition, Governance and the Role of Foreign Capital
PART THREE: REGULATION OF INTERESTS: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
Introduction - Gert Schmidt
Labour Relations in the Making - Eckhard J Dittrich and Michael Haferkemper
Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic
Towards Corporatism? The Transformation of Interest Policy and Interest Regulation in Eastern Europe - Melanie Tatur
PART FOUR: WORK RESTRUCTURING IN EAST AND WEST: LIMITS AND DIRECTIONS
Introduction - Gert Schmidt
Skilled Work in Contemporary Europe - Roger Penn and David Sleightholme
A Journey into the Dark
The Region of Baden-W[um]urttemberg - Hans-Joachim Braczyk, Gerd Schienstock and Bernard Steffensen
A Post Fordist Success Story?
Enterprise Transformation and the Redefinition of Organizational Realities in Poland - Krzysztof Konecki and Jolanta Kulpi[ac]nska
Employment Relations in Multinational Companies - Csaba Mak[ac]o and P[ac]eter Novosz[ac]ath
The Hungarian Case
