Catching Up?: Organizational and Management Change in the Ex-Socialist BlockLongtime management scholar, educator, consultant, and businessman Andrzej Kozminski has drawn on his extensive, practical experience to provide this comparative analysis of recent changes in management in Central and Eastern Europe and in highly developed, Western countries. He provides numerous, concrete examples of enterprises operating in Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, including joint ventures and Western enterprises. Strategies, management cultures, and managers are compared as Kozminski formulates viable strategies and business opportunities for Western companies. |
Contents
StateOwned Enterprises | 7 |
Dinosaurs | 11 |
Pretenders | 25 |
The New Breed of Private Enterprise | 35 |
MomandPop shops | 48 |
Growing sharks | 66 |
Strategies of the StateOwned Enterprises | 77 |
Dinosaur strategies | 78 |
The Communist legacy | 145 |
The work culture | 149 |
The roles of managers | 158 |
Changing Organizational Cultures | 167 |
The change agents | 181 |
Lessons for Western Managers | 193 |
Viable strategies of western enterprises | 201 |
Dos and donts | 215 |
Pretender strategies | 89 |
Strategies of Private Enterprises | 103 |
Strategies of momandpop shops | 121 |
Shark strategies | 131 |
PostCommunist Organizational Cultures | 143 |
Notes | 221 |
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