Recently added articles from Journal for East European Management Studies:
Editorial
Jan 01, 2009; ... Dear Reader, This issue of JEEMS reflects its editorial policy in that we present four very different articles and a research note covering a range of academic disciplines, industries, organisational functions and methodological approaches. Each of the authors has interesting scholarly ...
In focus: Hungarian and Central Eastern European characteristics of human resource management - an international comparative survey*
Jan 01, 2009; ... The HR practices of the former state-socialist countries have gone through significant changes. The analysis of the developments, built on the Cranet (2004) survey, intends to describe the similarities and differences found between 6 countries of the Central Eastern European region and the total ...
Strategy process as formulation and realization of corporate goals: The synthesis of surveys in Russian firms*
Jan 01, 2009; ... Based on a series of corporate surveys, the paper reveals the peculiarities of strategy processes in Russian companies. The data suggests that the fragile balance of power between the top management and the dominant owners leads to establishing of sets of hardly combined goals. The necessary ...
Organisational life-cycle: The characteristics of developmental stages in Russian companies created from scratch*
Jan 01, 2009; ... Although plenty of organizational life-cycle research in developed countries may be found in the literature, there is a remarkable lack of such research for transition economies like Russia. This article presents the results of 593 Russian entrepreneurial firms surveyed with a focus on ...
Establishing and restructuring marketing channels: An exploratory study of a Taiwanese company in Russia*
Jan 01, 2009; ... The rise of emerging markets not only provides opportunities for business growth but also for academic researchers to explore different paradigms in international marketing activities. This article details a case study of how a Taiwanese mother board company establishes and re-structures ...
News / Information
Jan 01, 2009; ... Call for Papers Journal of East - West Business Special Issue: Market Entry and Operational Strategies of MNEs in Transition and Emerging Economies Deadline: 30 April 2009 Special Issue Guest Co-editors: Mehmet Demirbag - University of ...
How to make sugar production more effective: A case of Ukraine*
Jan 01, 2009; ... The article is devoted to the analysis of efficiency of sugar companies of Ukraine and the ways of its improving. The decreasing return to scale and scale inefficiency for the majority of sugar companies are determined. The main factors of sugar plants inefficiency are defined. Developed ...
Editorial
Oct 01, 2008; ... Dear Reader, The collaborative research center 580 "Societal development following structural change, discontinuity, tradition and structural development" at the Universities of Jena and Halle conducted a workshop in October 2007 on the topic of economic elites in Central Eastern ...
Economic Elites in enlarged Europe
Oct 01, 2008; ... The introduction to the Special Issue on economic elites in Central Eastern Europe establishes a common understanding of elite research and the development of capitalism in Central Eastern Europe as developed during the 1990s. Since then, the composition of elites has been lost sight of by ...
Multipositional and transnational members of the Hungarian economic elite at the end of the 1990s: Their social characteristics and income chances*
Oct 01, 2008; ... Based on empirical research, the paper investigates two segments of the Hungarian economic elite: multipositionals - who hold three or more positions and the leaders of transnational companies. It investigates the social characteristics and income chances of the two groups; income chances are ...
East German economic elites and their companies two decades after the transformation ("Wende"): Still following the patterns of the 1990s*
Oct 01, 2008; ... Surveys among entrepreneurs and managing directors of companies with 50 to 1,000 employees are used to describe features of managerial elites in East Germany. The paper looks at four dimensions: (1) the reproduction of economic elites during the transformation period and its current ...
The changing roles of the post-transitional economic elite in Poland*
Oct 01, 2008; ... The study characterised evolution of the role of a new economic elite in Poland using the three-elite-generations metaphor: breakthrough elite, transition elite and consolidation elite. Describing this evolution in terms of the neoliberal modernisation paradigm, "elitist paradigm " and ...
Who won the contest for a new property class? Structural transformation of elites in the Visegrád Four region*
Oct 01, 2008; ... This paper analyses the transformation of elites in the Visegrád Four countries (namely the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). Drawing on a process-tracing analysis, it argues that the emergence of foreign-led economies in the late 1990s was intertwined with political processes in ...
News / Information
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Entrepreneurship Education and Research Network among the Universities of Central and Eastern Europe (ERENET) Report on the Activities The Entrepreneurship Education and Research Network among the Universities of Central and Eastern Europe ERENET, consists of university ...
"Culture strikes back!" Some reasons for the persistence and increasing importance of local cultures in times of globalisation
Jul 01, 2008; ... Dear Reader, Since the beginning of JEEMS, regional Central and East European cultures have been in the very centre of a lot of articles and explanations on CEE management. But from the perception of a uniform "Eastern bloc" to theoretical figures of an "East European Capitalism", ...
International marketing in an enlarged European Union: Some insights into cultural heterogeneity in Central Europe*
Jul 01, 2008; ... We inhabit a global village in which international marketers are encouraged to think and act with both global and local interests in mind. The enlargement of the European Union (EU) in January 2007 has created a 27 member state EU with a population of nearly half a billion. The purpose of this ...
Work related values and attitudes in Central and Eastern Europe*
Jul 01, 2008; ... After the shift from centrally planned to market economies, CEE countries experienced significant changes in the world of work. Full employment was replaced by a distortion in labour markets, a rapid rise in unemployment and intensive labour emigration. The following questions are discussed: (1) ...
Retail internationalization and its impact on the Russian agri - food business*
Jul 01, 2008; ... The internationalization process of the retailing sector is still in its turbulent starting phase. The present process of retail internationalization has created new trends in the agri-food sector such as global sourcing and retail branding. The example of Metro Group Russia underlines this ...
Illegitimate wage practices in Eastern Europe: The case of "envelope wages"*
Jul 01, 2008; ... To evaluate the prevalence in Eastern Europe of a little discussed illegitimate wage practice in which employers pay their formal employees both a declared wage and an undeclared 'envelope wage', an extensive survey involving 10,671 face-to-face interviews in eleven post-socialist societies is ...
Der politische Einfluss von Wirtschaftseliten in russischen Regionen
Jul 01, 2008; ... Julia Kusznin: Der politische Einfluss von Wirtschaftseliten in russischen Regionen. Eine Analyse am Beispiel der Erdöl - und Erdgasindustrie 1992 - 2005, Stuttgart: Ibidem - Verlag 2008 Russland ist durch eine enge Verknüpfung von politischen und ökonomischen Entscheidungsträgern ...