JEEMS Journal of East European Management Studies

The dismantling of the socialist mode of production in Bulgaria and Romania has marked the beginning of a turbulent and unprecedented period which poses new challenges to organisations. While in the past organisations were mere extensions of the...

The framework for export marketing in Central and Eastern Europe is characterised by dynamic but unstable changes in the marketing environment and by a shift towards market oriented individual and organisational buying behaviour. The article...

The main characteristics of the economic development of Eastern and Central European countries are determined by the transformation processes. The transformation is not only connected to the change of the economic system but it is also closely tied...

A common human resource management strategy among Western companies in international operations is the use of home-country expatriate managers although expatriate adjustment has been found to involve difficulties. In the light of this the present...

The general problem in emerging economies is that there is no well-defined system that supports a balanced relationship between management and other stakeholders of the firm. This paper describes how emerging systems of corporate governance in the...

The countries of Eastern and Central Europe have been progressing on the road to a market economy for a number of years now. UK companies, like other western firms, aware of the region's inhabitants pent-up desire for numerous consumer and...

Privatisation of a state-owned enterprise is an acquisition by private investors from the state. In this article we present a case history from the Hungarian privatisation. For an adequate understanding of what privatisation is about, one needs to...

This paper reviews the literature in the fields of learning, knowledge creation and storage in organisations and links the theories in these fields to mergers and acquisitions. Specifically, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) of East German ex-combines...

This article examines the divisionalisation of organisational structures in three former state enterprises in the Czech Republic. The research findings suggest that this process has occurred in three broad phases and that structural change in the...

This paper reports the results of case study research into the methods employed by 12 large UK-based companies when transferring marketing know-how to Central and East European (CEE) joint venture partner firms. Propositions derived from...