JEEMS Journal of East European Management Studies

This article examines the transfer of innovative 'soft' technologies by multinational companies (MNCs) through foreign direct investment and the diffusion of those technologies by those MNCs into indigenous firms (IFs). By drawing upon the...

This Article examines several research questions relative to the content of manufacturing strategy on the basis of empirical data gathered on a sample of Slovenian manufacturing firms: What were the most important manufacturing competitive...

This paper is based on evidence from interviews in 1997 with 400 young (aged up to 30) self-employed people, and parallel studies of the support being offered to the self-employed by state services and non-governmental organisations (NGOS), in four...

Management formation and management development have been one of the boom industries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the 1990s. Although managers in the former command economies were well educated and technically competent, their training and...

This paper examines the dynamics of culture in Poland in three phases by measuring multilevel cultural dimensions. The first phase examines cultural changes over time, the second phase looks at cultural dynamics by comparing Polish respondents with...

The article deals with the peculiarities of work attitudes in conditions of transition to market economy. Dynamics of work attitudes are traced in a seven-year period - 1990-1997. It is shown how work attitudes could be described right after the...

Slovenia's post World War II economic developments from a centrally-planned economy to an integrated self-management system have resulted in a specific organisational structure that, to some extent, continues to influence current developments in the...

This paper draws upon evidence from survey research in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to describe how young people's old routes into the labour markets in East-Central Europe have disintegrated in the 1990s while new routes and career groups...

This study examines the post-Soviet managers' views on the transformation of the management effectiveness in their company in the 1990s. Main emphasis is placed on analysing the relationship between the organisational performance and its impact on...

The individual culture shock is a well known and evidenced phenomenon. It describes psychological and also physical reactions of a person staying abroad. These reactions are due to the confrontation with a foreign culture. According to the authors...