Granick Enterprise Guidance in Eastern Europe

A Comparison of Four Socialist Economies
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6919-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 524 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

The sixties were a decade of major reform in the guidance of industry in the socialist countries of Eastern Europe. In this comparative study of industrial management, the different directions taken by reform in the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, and Yugoslavia are examined against the pattern shown by Romania, a country in which no significant reform has occurred. The author focuses on the methods used to coordinate enterprises in the early 1970s. The book is the product of a remarkable opportunity: eleven months of interviews in the four countries. Those interviewed were mainly middle and upper managers of enterprises, but also include officials of ministries, planning commissions, banks, trade unions, and national Communist parties. The resulting data made possible new interpretations of enterprise management in Eastern Europe.

Originally published in 1976.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Granick, David

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
List of Tables and Figures, pg. xi
Acknowledgments, pg. xv
Introduction, pg. 1
CHAPTER 1. The Analytic Framework, pg. 10
Introduction, pg. 29
CHAPTER 2. The Romanian Industrial Setting, pg. 33
CHAPTER 3. Romania: Integration of the Economy Above the Level of the Centrala, pg. 59
CHAPTER 4. Romania: Centrale and Enterprises, pg. 88
Introduction, pg. 131
CHAPTER 5. The East German Industrial Setting, pg. 133
CHAPTER 6. East German VVBs, Kombinate, and Enterprises, pg. 171
CHAPTER 7. Conclusions as to the New Economic System, and Modifications since 1970, pg. 210
Introduction, pg. 231
CHAPTER 8. Hungary: Objectives of Decentralized Planning and the Constraints on the System, pg. 234
CHAPTER 9. Hungary: The Reform Mechanisms in Practice, pg. 257
CHAPTER 10. Hungary: Enterprises and the Success of the Reform, pg. 282
Introduction, pg. 319
CHAPTER 11. The Yugoslav Industrial Setting, pg. 323
CHAPTER 12. The Reality of Workers' Management and Enterprise Goals in Yugoslavia, pg. 351
CHAPTER 13. Enterprise Behavior in Yugoslavia, pg. 395
CHAPTER 14. The Managers: Backgrounds, Careers, and Earnings, pg. 433
CHAPTER 15. Conclusion, pg. 466
Index, pg. 495