JEEMS Journal of East European Management Studies

This exploratory investigation relates traditional theories on resistance to change to privatization of the Romanian economy. The authors identified several "inhibitors" which have served to stall Romania's attempts to achieve a free-market economy....

This paper deals with the transfer of property rights from non-private to private agencies. First macro- as well as micro-contingencies of privatisations are shown. Then measures are described which should be applied before privatisation of a public...

"People are doing their history themselves but not in the way they think they do, under the circumstances they did not choose... Traditions of all the previous died generations burdens the brains of alive as a nightmare". Karl Marx: Eighteen's...

The move from a command to a market led economy in Poland has resulted in extensive political, economic and social change. Western multinational companies drive change in Eastern Europe and when Polish state owned enterprises are acquired by western...

This paper deals with the development of business ethics in the transformational process taking place in Slovakia. The first chapter analyses the most important components of this process in terms of business ethics. The second chapter introduces...

This article examines the market orientation activities of four firms in the Czech Republic. The findings are framed in terms of organizational innovation. Two firms have successfully adopted such practices, however, they had the advantages in one...

Privatisation in Central and Eastern Europe was introduced to encourage competition in companies with subsequent beneficial effects on company performance and market orientation. Companies have been privatised by four main methods in these countries...

Service quality, and the service-oriented practices that create that quality, have been shown to yield competitive advantage to firms in developed and mature markets. The role that service-driven practices play in transitional economies, however,...