Industrial Transformation in Europe: Process and Contexts

Industrial Transformation in Europe: Process and Contexts

This volume is essential reading for all those interested in economic developments in Europe. At a time when forces of globalization are demanding industrial and organizational transformations throughout industrialized and industrializing nations. It 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 the 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 various forms of “corporatism” which are emerging. They explore various aspects of restructuring of work systems, including building new forms of labour relations in post socialist Europe. The role of the foreign capital and multinationals in the shaping host government industrial strategies is addressed, while the ways in which relatively successful industrial regimes can suffer from a lack of flexibility in the face of outside force are also discussed.

Eckhard J. Dittrich, Richard Whitley, and Gert Schmidt.

Sage Publications 

1995

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