JEEMS Journal of East European Management Studies

This paper suggests a shift from the discourse on transfer and transition with regard to CEE societies towards one focusing on transformation processes that come with globalization. Since globalization can be interpreted as the spread of ideas,...

The article describes how the concepts - i.e. people's knowledge and attitude - connected to the Russian and Czech words for profit have changed during the transformation after 1989. In the socialist period capitalist profit maximization is...

Social change brings about discursive change. Particularly, it causes shifts of meaning within the key concepts of social discourse. The concept of den'gi (money) has undergone fundamental alteration in Russian language and culture since...

This paper focuses on some of the specificities of decision making in Russian organisations. These companies usually have a highly centralized decision-making. Paradoxically, Russian firms are also known for their relatively high level of hostility...

In 339 interviews we identified 449 time related and culturally determined critical incidents. We can clearly distinguish time behaviour of Anglo-German managers from that of managers from France and Italy and East Central Europe. These incidents...

A metamodel, derived from the strategic management literature, provided a framework for an eclectic and structured empirical analysis of the globalisation potential of the Russian oil industry and the implications for the international oil industry....

906 employees from Estonian companies were studied in order to explore how task-orientation and relationship-orientation of organisational culture influence attitudes to the process of organisational change among employees in post-socialist...

The paper places the development of leadership patterns in Hungary into a historical context. The author analyses the influence of reforms before the political changes on the behavioural patterns of Hungarian managers. During the transformation...

The paper presents the results of a survey of managers in seven countries of CEE, focusing on leadership and management, the degree of deference subordinates display towards senior managers, work and leisure, and ethical issues. In discussing the...

This article focuses on the phenomenon of political networking. It analyzes how such a necessity of socialist life and management as personal networking is utilized under the conditions of a transition to a market economy and democracy. The newly...

Through the survey of 530 Russian CEOs of industrial companies, we were able to receive the self-reported evidence on overall working load and time distribution of Russian executives. The data suggests that Russian CEOs exhibit the patterns of time...

Managers play a key role in the restructuring and transformation of economic structures in transitional countries. It is therefore not surprising that they are at the centre of attention for experts and others as well. This paper describes the...

It is so much written about leadership today and the leader’s features are so much investigated, that one can hardly be “original” trying to put down some lines about the subject. Without pretending to bring new ideas, authors of this article...

The paper considers the problems of corporate governance in Ukraine during the process of transformation of the structure of corporate ownership. Capital structure, as an element of the system of corporate governance, is investigated. A tight...

The paper evaluates the feasibility of employing mainstream models of corporate governance in the context of transition economies, using Russia as an example. The issue of corporate governance is considered as an element of an institutional crisis...

This paper demonstrates the development of economic reform of the new Germany following the collapse of the Berlin Wall. The analysis focuses on the Treuhandanstalt (THA), established in 1990, with responsibility for dividing up East Germany’s...