Cover -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- Editorial -- Technological innovation among internationality active SMEs in the Czech economy -- Inducing the internationalisation of family manufacturing firms from a transition context -- International acquisitions by Polish MNEs. Value creation or...

A range of agreements designed to revive East and Central European States′ (ECES) mutual trade and their trade with the former Soviet Union have proliferated since early 1993. Considers the extent to which these initiatives represent a genuine revival of regional co‐operation, and looks at...

Explores the problems of manager development within the context of the move from a command to a free economy. Places particular emphasis on issues concerned with the education of manager educators and trainers, with reference to the Czech Republic. Proposes models of development for both large...

Tremendous challenges face those charged with reconstructing the economies and workforces of the formerly Communist Eastern European ations. The temptation is great to apply proven Western European and American models to the problem. There are clear dangers in doing so if an attempt is made to...

The transitional problems of formerly centrally planned economies have received much attention, in terms of both economic advice and wider academic consideration. In order to develop concrete gap‐bridging measures, micro as well as macro economic concerns need to be addressed and timing and...