1st Edition

Business Leaders and New Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Communist Europe

Edited By Katharina Bluhm, Bernd Martens, Vera Trappmann Copyright 2014
288 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Business leaders exert extraordinary influence on institution building in market economies but they think and act within institutional settings. This book combines both an elite approach with a varieties-of-capitalism approach. Comparing Poland, Hungary and East and West Germany, we perceive the transformations in East Central Europe and in Germany after 1989 as being intertwined. Based on a... Read more

1. Introduction: Business Leaders and the New Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Communist Europe Katharina Bluhm, Bernd Martens and Vera Trappmann  2. Institutional Transformation and Business Leaders of the New Foreign-Led Capitalism in Poland Krzysztof Jasiecki  3. The ‘Small Transformation’ in Hungary: Institutional Changes and Economic Actors György Lengyel and Dénes Bank  4. The Long Shadow of the ‘German Model’: Business Leaders in Social and Institutional Change Katharina Bluhm, Bernd Martens and Vera Trappmann  5. From ‘Deputy Revolution’ to Markets for Executives? Social Origin, Careers and Generational Change of Business Leaders Twenty Years after Regime Change Katharina Bluhm and Bernd Martens  6. Contractual Trust: The Long Shadow of the Shadow Economy Béla Janky and György Lengyel  7. Varying Concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility: Beliefs and Practices in Central Europe Katharina Bluhm and Vera Trappmann  8. Institutions or Attitudes? The Role of Formal Worker-Representation in Labour Relations Vera Trappman, Krzysztof Jasiecki and Dariusz Przybysz  9.Income and Influence: Hungarian, Polish and German Business Leaders Compared György Lengyel, Nikolett Geszler and Zita Ördög

Biography

Katharina Bluhm is a Professor of Sociology at the Free University Berlin, Germany

Bernd Martens is a Senior Researcher in the Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Vera Trappman is a Junior Professor of Macro Sociology at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany