State, Market and Organizational Form

Intro -- Introduction: State, Market and Organizational Form -- Economistic Interpretations of Global Change -- Beyond Homo Oeconomicus -- Embeddedness of Economic and Organizational Activity: Towards a Dynamic Conceptualization -- Part One. Political Processes, Economic Interests and Organizational Re-structuring in Societal Transformation -- Enterprise Change and the Management of Labour in a Transforming Society: The Case of Hungary -- Introduction -- Employment and Labour Management Policies in 14 Hungarian Enterprises -- Changes in Employment -- Employment and Personnel Policies -- Work Organization and Control -- Conclusions -- The Machineries of Institutional Transformation: The Case of Czech Agriculture -- Introduction: Studying Transformation -- Background: The Privatization of the Czech Economy -- The Reshaping of the Agro-Industrial Complex -- Cooperative/Collective Farms (CFs) -- State Farms (SFs) -- Processing Industry -- The Transformation of CFs -- The Future of OCs -- Discussion -- Institutional Change and Natural Selection -- Policy and Reality -- Theory and Policy -- Conclusion: Theory and Reality -- Enterprise Reform and the Role of the State: The Case of the Capital Iron and Steel Works, Beijing -- Introduction -- The Shougang Corporation -- The Contract Responsibility System -- The State Contract System -- The Internal Contract System -- Effects of the Contract Responsibility System -- Disparities between Enterprises -- Short-termism -- Impact on the Tax System and Government Revenue-raising -- Limits to Enterprise Autonomy -- Excessive Enterprise Autonomy -- Limited Improvement in Management Quality -- Failure to Resolve the Problem of Property Rights -- The Continued Social Welfare Burden on Large Enterprises -- Fate of a CRS Flagship -- New Models of Enterprise Reform.