Transformation Management in Postcommunist Countries: Organizational Requirements for a Market Economy

by Refik Culpan, B Nino Kumar

Overview

The book addresses the management of privatization in post-communist countries and is aimed at defining and analyzing contextual and organizational characteristics of privatization in these transitional economies to build effective business concerns that behave competitively. While privatization has recently become popular and widely used in former socialist countries, its organizational requirements have often been overlooked. The book demonstrates salient features as well as dynamic relationships among various organizational properties of privatized firms. The volume includes both conceptual foundations and practical suggestions for transformation from a command economy to a market economy from a managerial and organizational perspectives. Additionally, it includes examples of privatization in Eastern and Central Europe. It will appeal to students, policy makers, and managers of privatization in post-communist countries.

This book presents an outstanding body of research on theoretical and practical aspects of the various applications of privatization in post-communist countries. A thorough analysis of strategy, structure, behavior, and process of transformation from a command to a market economy is discussed. The volume presents illustrative cases from Eastern Europe and provides a wide range of critical issues including planning, restructuring industrial organization, technology management, and human resource management based on personal experience of the authors or extensive studies on privatization in former socialist countries. It is an excellent source for further understanding the reasons for successes or failures of a variety of privatization applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780899308401
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/27/1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)
Lexile:	1380L (what's this?)

About the Author

REFIK CULPAN teaches at the School of Business Administration, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg. He has 20 years teaching and practical experience in management and international business in Europe and the United States. His numerous research has appeared in selected jourbanals. He authored a chapter in Advances in International Comparative Management Vol. 6 (1991) and The Economic of Change in East and Central Europe: Its Impact on International Business (1993). He recently edited Multinational Strategic Alliances (1993).

BRIJ NINO KUMAR is Professor of International Management and Business Economics at the University of Erlange-Nurbanberg, Germany. He has over 70 publications in reputable German, American, French, and Japanese jourbanals and seven books on various topics of international management and business economics. Additionally, he serves on editorial boards of several jourbanals and has advised the federal German government and Bavarian government on various projects.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Transforming Enterprises in Post-Communist Countries by R. Culpan
Environment and Strategy for Transformation
Critical Issues of Privatization: A Managerial Perspective by Ronald Savitt
Learning from Mismanagement in Polish Organizations by Alicja Kozdroj and David D. Van Fleet
Structural Obstacles for Russian/American Joint Ventures by William L. Tullar
Structure for Transformation
Corporate Goverance in Slovenia: Transformation from Self-Management to Codetermination by Darko Deskovicz
Restructuring Organization for Transformation by Michael Gaitanides and E. Bredenbreuker
Merging for Transformation by Rolf-Dieter Reinecke
Behavior and Personnel Development for Transformation
The Transformation Process in Former Socialist Countries within "Cultural Joint Ventures"—A Human Resource Perspective by Michael E. Domsch and Désirée H. Ladwig
Training and Development for a Market Economy: The Case of Poland by Conrad J. Kasperson and Marian Dobrzynski
TEMAFL: Teaching Management as a Foreign Language—Some Observations and Reflections about Management Education in Central Europe by Arieh A. Ullmann
Processes for Transformation
Market Entry Strategies of German Firms and Industrial Transformation in Eastern Europe by Johann Engerlard and Stefan Eckert
Problems of Corporate Finance in the Transition Period: The Case of Belarus by Martin K. Welge and Dirk Holtbrügge
Technological Management for Transformation by Ulrich Dörrie
Illustrative Cases
Private Sector Development in Poland: Cases from Service Industries by Tomasz Mroczkowski, James Sood, Maciej Grabowski, and Przemyslaw Kulawczuk
Transformation Management in Czech and Slovak Republics by William R. Pendergast
Epilogue: Evidence of Corporate Transformation in Post-Communist Countries: Towards a Theory of Transformation Management By B. Kumar

Editorial Reviews

Scholars of management from the US and western and eastern Europe offer their views on changes in the organization of enterprises necessary for post-communist countries to fully engage in international commerce, and some principles for managing the transformation. They cover the context and strategy, structure, behavior and personnel development, the process, and illustrative cases. An epilogue lays the groundwork for a theory of transformation management. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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