The Journal of East European Management Studies aims to promote dialogue and cooperation among scholars seeking to examine,explore and explain the behaviour and practices of management within the transforming societies of Central and Eastern Europe.The theoretical interests of the journal areorganisational and management change,Central and East European societies (including those on the fringes of Europe) undergoing processes of transition or transformation, andscientific issues of business, management and organisation that arise in such contexts.The JEEMS aims to attract social scientific contributions from scholars of any nation and region, but particularly wishes to encourageauthors from those countries directly experiencing transformational change. Its potential readership is international, comprising academicsand practitioners with an involvement or interest in the management of change in transforming societies in Central and Eastern Europe.
This paper examines the process whereby the former state-owned enterprises in the Czech Republic have been fragmented and repackaged into privatised and private firms. By studying the process in two local communities, this research enriches the...
With special reference to the steel industry, this article draws upon a political-institutional perspective to examine the progress made in the most recent round of state-enterprise reform in China - the introduction of the Modern Enterprise System...
This paper reports case study research findings on recent employment restructuring practices in the state sector under the transition context of China in the mid-1990s. The research focuses on the drive, process, and outcome of downsizing with...
In the paper the author analyses the contemporary issues of gaining competitive advantages (CAs) at the firm level. The basic purpose of the paper is to develop theoretical and empirical analysis of non-price (invisible, intangible, non-traditional)...