Che Guevara remains an iconic figure, four decades after his death. Yet his most significant contribution - his work as a member of the Cuban government - is rarely discussed. This book explores his impact on Cuba's economy, through fascinating new archival material and interviews.

This book demonstrates that the cooperative model is based on principles essential to building a more just and democratic society. It is argued that this is the best economic reform alternative to neoliberal capitalism and authoritarian socialism in Cuba, and that this model can also radically...

Economic systems and the reforms processes examined in Consistency and Viability of Socialist Economics Systems are the centrally administered socialist economics system of the Soviet Union, the Liberman-Kosygin reforms, the Gorbachev reforms and market socialism of Yugoslavia.

The Unidad Popular and the Pinochet Dictatorship covers the two most conflicting Chilean governments of this century. The analysis of the Allende government examines the macroeconomic policies and structural reforms and their results; the questioning of property rights constituted a key issue of...

Paul Auerbach’s Socialist Optimism offers an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century. Present-day capitalism has generated growing inequality of income and wealth, persistent high levels of unemployment and ever-diminishing prospects for young people. But in the absence of a...

Given the near-silence in technological and business history about post-World War II socialist enterprises, this book gives voice to a generation of Communist China’s managers, entrepreneurs, cadres, and workers from the Liberation to the early 1970s. Using recently-opened online archival...

L. Leisering: Introduction -- M. G. Schmidt: Social Policy in the German Democratic Republic: Introduction.- "Socialist Social Policy" -- The Institutions of Social Policy in the GDR -- The Politics of Social Policy Under the Socialist Regime -- The Welfare State as Political Process: From...

Trotz umfassender konzeptioneller Erforschung von Dynamic Capabilities existiert auf Ebene ihrer system- und prozessbasierten Mikrofundierungen noch eine Vielzahl an unbeantworteten Fragen. Peter Hutterer intendiert einen Beitrag zu dieser ressourcenorientierten Perspektive des strategischen...

Organisationstheoretische Untersuchung strategischer Unternehmensnetzwerke -- Strategische Unternehmensnetzwerke und ihre Bedeutung in Theorie und Praxis -- Marketingtheoretische Untersuchung strategischer Unternehmensnetzwerke -- Marketing-Konzeption des strategischen Unternehmensnetzwerks --...

Grundlagen -- Die Customer-based View der Unternehmung -- Das Konzept der kundenorientierten Unternehmensführung -- Der Zusammenhang zwischen Produktqualität, Kundenzufriedenheit und Untemehmenserfolg -- Kundenloyalität kritisch betrachtet -- Kundenpotenziale ausschöpfen —...