Restructuring Networks in Post-Socialism: Legacies, Linkages and Localities - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198290209 ISBN 13: 9780198290209

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 1996

Synopsis

This book is about change in Central and Eastern Europe, and how we think about social and economic change, more generally. In contrast to the dominant 'transition framework' that examines organizational forms in Eastern Europe according to the degree to which they conform to, or depart from, the blueprints of already existing capitalisms, this book examines the innovative character, born of necessity, in which actors in the post-socialist setting are restructuring organizations and institutions by redefining and recombining resources. Instead of conceiving these recombination as accidental aberrations, it explores their evolutionary potentials. The starting premise of Restructuring Networks is that the actual unit of entrepreneurship is not the isolated individual personality but the social networks that links firms and the actors within them. Drawing insight from evolutionary economics and from the new methods of network analysis, leading sociologists economists and political scientists present their findings from Hungary, Poland, Eastern Germany, Russia and the Czech Republic.

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This books is about change in Central and Eastern Europe, and how we think about social and economic change more generally. In contrast to the dominant 'transition framework' that examines organizational forms in Eastern Europe according to the degree to which they conform to, or depart from, the blueprints of already existing capitalisms, this book examines the way economic and social actors in the post-socialist setting are restructuring organizations and institutions by redefining and recombining resources. Instead of conceiving these recombinations as accidental aberrations, the book explores their evolutionary potential. In it a distinguished group of scholars from West and East blends wide-ranging theoretical discussion with detailed empirical analysis of developments and institutions in Hungary, Poland, Eastern Germany, Russia, and the Czech Republic.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198290209
• ISBN 13: 9780198290209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Grabher Gernot, Stark David