Privatization and Entrepreneurship: The Managerial Challenge in Central and Eastern EuropePrivatization and Entrepreneurship: The Managerial Challenge in Central and Eastern Europe analyzes the challenges faced by managers in the transforming economies of Central and Eastern Europe and provides penetrating insights into the details of managing in the former socialist countries. This collection's combination of conceptual/theoretical material with empirical, firsthand case analysis prepares Western managers for a more profitable and less stressful entry into these significant markets.This enlightening book highlights the complexity and breadth of the issues and problems of successfully entering new markets in Central and Eastern Europe. Along the way, you are introduced to such topics as consumer behavior and shown the different forms of foreign direct investment with their associated problems and benefits. If you are searching for ways to better prepare for business in these markets, this book can help you meet your objectives with its helpful information on:
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
What Is To Be Done? | 19 |
The Translation of Presentational Symbols | 37 |
Michael K Mauws | 45 |
Epilogue | 58 |
Managerial Implications of the Transition | 79 |
Conclusion | 86 |
A Mergers and Acquisitions | 92 |
Marketing | 219 |
Implementing the Market Concept | 225 |
Peko Steel | 232 |
Conclusion | 238 |
Patent Systems | 245 |
Conclusions | 257 |
Survival of Newly | 279 |
Labor Relations and Policies in Hungary | 293 |
FirstRate Furniture Firm | 103 |
Static Management in a Dynamic Environment | 111 |
Business Before the Velvet Revolution | 118 |
Successful ReCreation | 131 |
Conclusions | 137 |
Skala in the New Environment | 145 |
Epilogue | 151 |
Foreign Direct Investment Linkages | 155 |
Entrepreneurs in PostCommunist Russia | 167 |
Critical Success Factors for Entrepreneurial | 181 |
Influences on Strategic Decision Making | 205 |
Implications and Recommendations for Western Investors | 299 |
Russian Pay Practices Preferences | 305 |
Research on Russian Pay Preferences | 313 |
Life and Consumption Styles in the | 321 |
The Transition from Socialism to Capitalism | 329 |
Sample Product Categories | 338 |
Theoretical | 344 |
Newly Formed Firms | 355 |
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Privatization and Entrepreneurship: The Managerial Challenge in Central and ... Arieh A. Ullmann,Alfred Lewis No preview available - 1997 |