With the advancement of the eastern enlargement of the EU, some advocates of the European social model saw enlargement as the "Trojan horse" against Europeanization, for the Americanization of Europe. In response, the EU recommended the strengthening of social partnership among business, labor...

This article focuses on the phenomenon of political networking. It analyzes how such a necessity of socialist life and management as personal networking is utilized under the conditions of a transition to a market economy and democracy. The newly established political networks stretch from the...

With the advancement of the eastern enlargement of the EU, some advocates of the European social model saw enlargement as the Trojan horse against Europeanization, for the Americanization of Europe. In response, the EU recommended the strengthening of social partnership among business, labor and...

This article focuses on the struggle for a social Europe by examining social partnership developments in two western countries, Germany and Britain, and two eastern countries, Bulgaria and Poland. The resurgence of social partnership in the west, even in the weakest case (Britain), is...

In the process of investing and managing in former Soviet-bloc transition countries, Westerners are exposed to important gaps that must be bridged. Over the last fifteen years and partly through trial and error, CC has developed a comprehensive approach for planning, establishing and managing...

The article approaches the dynamics of the macro-micro between organizational environment and organization) in a dramatically changing command society. It is based on the empirical findings of a case study conducted by the author in Bulgaria in 1994. Kanter et al.'s organizational change model...

This paper focuses on some of the specificities of decision making in Russian organisations. These companies usually have a highly centralized decisionmaking. Paradoxically, Russian firms are also known for their relatively high level of hostility towards knowledge sharing. Both characteristics...

We examine how regulatory and normative institutional factors influence the choice of acquisitions vs. alliances by Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) firms in the European Union (EU). Using a sample of 228 acquisitions and 48 alliances established by BRIC firms in the EU in the period...

Using a sample of 628 cross-border alliances established by emerging economies firms across 25 manufacturing and service industries in 64 host countries in the period 1995-2004, we investigate the effect of institutional factors on the adoption of equity alliance mode. The findings of this study...