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INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

Institutional Change and Industrial Development in Central and Eastern Europe

Edited by
Anne Lorentzen
Brigitta Widmaier
Mihly Laki

First published 1999 by Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2018 by Routledge
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Copyright Anne Lorentzen, Brigitta Widmaier and Mihly Laki 1999

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A Library of Congress record exists under LC control number: 99073314

ISBN 13: 978-1-138-31403-0 (hbk)
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Contents

Anne Lorentzen

Richard Whitley and Laszlo Czaban

Martin Myant

Niels Knudsen

Frede Hvelplund and Henrik Lund

Junior R. Davis

Brigitta Widmaier

Maureen Lankhuizen

Attila Havas

Hans van Zon

Mihly Laki

Susan Berry Baca

Guide

Susan Berry Baca is Lecturer and Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Languages and International Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Laszlo Czaban is Lecturer at Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, UK.

Junior R. Davis is a Ph.D. from the University of London and is working as a Senior Economist at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, UK.

Attila Havas is Project Co-ordinator at the National Committee for Technological Development (O.M.F.B.), and Research Fellow at Innovation Research Centre (I.K.U.), Budapest University of Economics, Budapest, Hungary.

Frede Hvelplund is Associate Professor at the Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Niels Knudsen is working as an expert in energy planning in Central and Eastern Europe and is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Mihly Laki is Professor at the Department of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Science in Budapest, Hungary.

Maureen Lankhuizen is a Ph.D. candidate at MERIT, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

Anne Lorentzen is Associate Professor at the Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Henrik Lund is Associate Professor and Head of Department at the Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Martin Myant is Reader at the Department of Accounting, Economics and Languages, University of Paisley, UK.

Hans van Zon is Professor at the School of Social and International Studies, University of Sunderland, UK.

Richard Whitley is Professor at the Department of Economic Systems and Organisational Change, Manchester Business School, UK.

Brigitta Widmaier is Senior Researcher at the Department of Work and Technology (IAT) in Gelsenkirschen, Germany.

ANNE LORENTZEN, BRIGITTA WIDMAIER, MIHLY LAKI

The processes of transformation in Central and Eastern Europe have represented a challenge for Social Science and Economic research. The changes were unforeseen, sudden and unprecedented and they implied a radical re-orientation of the economic, political and social order. New states emerged and crossnational economic and military blocks were dissolved. The European Union started to integrate new countries, contributing to the rapid development of a new social and economic division of labour in Europe.

The "first stage" of transformation was characterised by the installation of basic conditions for multi-party democracy and market economy. Accordingly research focused on issues that were both basic for the understanding of the process, but which were at the same time very general in their scope: The development of democracy, of market economy and of civil society. The observable changes, based upon values and institutions of the Western system, were measured by the degree of approximation to (more ideal than real) Western models.

The essence of the "second stage" in the transformation process, with economies privatised and institutional-legislative reforms in place, is different. It can tentatively be characterised as differentiated societal development processes widely influenced by endogenous forces. This second stage give rise to a host of more detailed research questions in relation to the development of regions, institutions, and branches as well as individual enterprises.

The contributions in this book refer to this second stage. The intention with the book is to characterise the capability of industries and single enterprises in Central and Eastern Europe to respond to the new conditions, and further to discuss how these conditions, in terms of institutions and economic structures, seem to form industrial development differently in the different countries.

In November, 1997, a group of researchers (economists, social scientists, and engineers) who are working on transformation processes in countries of Central and Eastern Europe were called together by Anne Lorentzen from Aalborg University for a workshop at Tannishus, Denmark. During two days the initial versions of the papers that now appear in this volume were presented and discussed. As a result of the workshop, the publication of the contributions was envisaged, most of all because a commonly shared framework for research became obvious and proved to be fruitful in the discussions at Tannishus. This common framework is found in the focus on the level of branches and enterprises rather than on a macro-economic level, and the shared acceptance of the fruitfulness of case-studies and qualitative research methods. The book can be seen as a first step towards a much needed synthesis of research methods for the study of renewal and innovation in enterprises.

The people contributing to this book have done a great deal of work in not only revising but also rewriting their papers which we, the editors, thank them for. Language editing was important, since most of the contributors were not native English speaking people, and research fellow Susan Baca has made a tremendous contribution by doing much of the language editing of the book, together with our indefatigable secretary Dorte Madsen. The staff at the Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Bente Vestergaard and Dorthe Andersen has worked hard on finishing the manuscripts. The Department of Development and Planning deserve our warm thanks for its financial contribution to language editing and indexing. Also the editorial meeting organised and hosted by the Institute for Work and Technology in Gelsenkirschen in October 1998 contributed to the. successful realisation of the book project and to the opening of perspectives for future collaboration among the contributors.

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