JEEMS Journal of East European Management Studies

During the last ten years, Estonia has made strong efforts in terms of the transition to a market economy. This is particularly true with respect to the soundness and transparency of monetary and fiscal policies, the privatisation of former...

This paper is based on information collected by interviews during 2000 and 2001, using a mainly structured questionnaire, with the owners or top mangers in 95 manufacturing, extractive and construction businesses in Kazakhstan, and unstructured...

The paper looks at different aspects of compensation management in Poland-based corporations. It identifies geography, ownership and industry as the most important factors for wage differentiation within the Polish labor market. Another essential...

In 2001, Siemens Ltd. Poland was merged with another Siemens subsidiary in Poland, a former state-owned company called ZWUT. The author is a manager who took part in the merger. He describes the principles and stages of the merger processes and...

The present paper briefly characterizes main problems and trends in innovation activity of Slovak enterprises during 1990s. It is based on three questionnaire surveys (1990, 1996, 1998) in the sample of large and medium sized, mainly manufacturing...

This essay reports the results of a survey of IT exporters from Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. The survey identifies the key competitive advantages and disadvantages of Central European IT companies as they compete for...

Internationalisation of Estonian banking sector has mainly been driven by market-seeking argument, but also competition about the strategic advantage of first entry in Latvian and Lithuanian markets played important role. The most successful example...

Der Artikel beleuchtet die spezifischen Merkmale der institutionellen Umgebung und ihre Verwicklungen für Geschäftshandlungen von russischen Unternehmen auf ausländischen Märkten. Der Autor gibt Einblick in die Beziehungen zwischen...

They are barely visible on the global scene. But it is in part so because official statistics have difficulties in reflecting their real size. They are nevertheless gaining in importance, representing a challenge for those who want to understand why...

The FDI stock of Russia amounted to USD 15 billion at the beginning of 2002. Recorded outward direct investment covers only a small part of the total capital outflow from Russia abroad. Capital flight represents the core of Russian capital outside...

The article analyses the recent emergence of multinational companies (MNCs) from Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs), especially the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia. The majority of MNCs from CEECs concentrate their...

The article examines the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in a transition economy. The analysis of structure and dynamics of FDI into Estonia and outflow of FDI from the country demonstrates the important role of the FDI in capital formation...

A relatively limited research has been carried out so far on management issues in Albania, so that the field can be considered as not sufficiently explored. Therefore, undertaking more complex studies and revitalizing the scientific debate is of...

Research on marketing in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has been of rising interest since the transition started in 1989. In this paper two major areas relevant for marketing in CEE are being discussed: the competitive situation in the transition...

Three historical case studies from Polish manufacturing industry are used to evaluate the rise of survival networks in Poland during the early 1990s. The article poses the question of whether survival networks represented a hidden driver of...

Tony Watson is Professor of Organisational and Managerial Behaviour in the Nottingham Business School. He teaches, researches and writes about organisations, managerial work, industrial sociology, human resource activities and management learning...

International institutions and experts have frequently highlighted Estonia as a transition country that has relatively rapidly and successfully introduced economic reforms and achieved substantial results in the transition process. The following...