JEEMS Journal of East European Management Studies

Comparing all kinds of market entry, foreign direct investment (FDI) appears to be the most appropriate mode of foreign market. So called Market seeking FDI can be differentiated into those activities primarily aiming to realise psychic market...

This paper summarizes the results of a survey of downsizing practices in 90 Polish manufacturing companies. Unlike Russia, where very few employment reductions have been carried out, downsizing in Polish companies is pervasive and appears to be...

The paper examines how the sources and forms of competitive advantage interweave and what does this mean for the existing theory on competitive advantage. We found out that all sources of competitive advantage should be classified into external and...

The harmonisation of Bulgarian and foreign entrepreneurs' concepts for personnel management is part of Bulgaria's process of transition to free market economy. On the one hand this is possible provided that Bulgarian entrepreneurs get familiar with...

The process of systemic change in Poland has brought about major changes in corporate governance. The enforcement of new laws has created a culture of compliance that has shaped capital groups and the management ethos of the groups, spurring them to...

The paper defines crucial adjustment instruments of the Slovak business sector in the course of its accession to the European Union. Analysis of these instruments is illustrated with a sample of 110 Slovak manufacturing firms. Analysis shows that...

The key question concerning the HRM in MNCs is the extent of global standardization versus localization of HRM-practices. The present study analyses whether the Finnish companies operating in Estonia apply a clear strategical approach to their IHRM...

Social capital is a valuable resource that can be raised and destroyed, and its level in society is path dependent and related to society's "collective memory" of experience with power structures. Social capital is found both on the network as well...

In this paper we compare the leadership behaviour of managers in Austria and the Czech Republic, employing the Vroom/Yetton situational leadership model. The model applies a methodology that is close-to-action in contrast to the collection of...

According to the theory, a combination of the highly regulated external labour market and the internal rigidity would induce organisational inefficiency. Evidence suggests that theoretically unexpected results of that combination prevailed in...

In recent years, the issue of administrative burden on enterprises due to legislation has received much attention. Everywhere it is acknowledged that it is important to reduce and minimize this administrative burden as far as possible, because it...

In our study, we managed to include companies involved in six different industries. Diversification is the most frequently used corporate strategy. Our study reveals that 43.3% of companies diversified through external means, 26.7% diversified...

Performance measurement, although extensively studied in the last two decades, has been given relatively little consideration in terms of the factors that influence the design of performance measurement systems. Few organisations appear to have...

In this article, the author analyses the mission statements of 50 top Slovene enterprises which are published on the companies' web sites. The purpose of this research is 1) to establish the degree to which the Slovene enterprises make use of their...

This article examines the impact of different cultural standards on the processes and performances of Austrian, Spanish, German and Hungarian task groups. We therefore analyzed 201 qualitative interviews with Austrians, Spaniards, Germans and...

The lively debate about converging or diverging management practices is not yet decided. Human resource management (HRM) is no exception. Using the widely discussed issue of HR specialists handing over HR tasks to line management as an example, the...