1st Edition
Socialist Entrepreneurs? Business Histories of the GDR and Yugoslavia
Introduction: Business history goes East
Vladimir Unkovski-Korica and Saša Vejzagić
1. Persistent centralisation of decision-making in the age of industrial atomisation and self-management on the case of construction company Industrogradnja Zagreb (1966–1980)
Saša Vejzagić
2. Tensions between plan and market in a political factory in socialist Kosovo
Pieter Troch
3. Management of technological innovation: High tech R&D in the GDR
Dolores L. Augustine
4. Workers against technocrats: The failed economic reform and the rise of consumer socialism in the German Democratic Republic
Eszter Bartha
5. Entrepreneurs as saviours of socialism? The complicated relationship between East German state socialism and entrepreneurship
Max Trecker
6. Losing the global: (Re)building a Bosnian enterprise across transition
Anna Calori
7. Varieties of capitalism or variegated state capitalism? East Germany and Yugoslavia in comparative perspective
Gareth Dale and Vladimir Unkovski-Korica
Biography
Vladimir Unkovski-Korica is Senior Lecturer based in Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow. His first book The Economic Struggle for Power in Tito’s Yugoslavia: From World War II to Non-Alignment was published by I.B. Tauris in 2016.
Saša Vejzagić earned a PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute in Florence in 2021. He is interested in economic, business, and social history of the 20th century in Yugoslavia. Currently he is a research associate at the Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
