In the past, environmental management mainly focussed on the identification of ecologically oriented requirements made on enterprises by relevant stakeholders, on the developmentof related corporate strategies and also on the introduction of a corporate system of environmental management....

The paper examines the determinants of productivity growth in foreign manufacturingsubsidiaries in five Central and East European (CEE) countries by analysing patterns ofcontrol, nature of firms’ capabilities and firms’ market orientation. Building on the socalled ‘developmental...

This paper analyses the emergence of central Europe as a new location for the productionof electronics. The main factors that drive integration in the region into global productionnetworks are also analysed, as well as prospects for upgrading the industry by using networkalignment...

The depth of industry integration between European ‘West’ and ‘East’ depends on thesimultaneous existence of several factors, which, through mutual complementarities,align global and local networks. This paper takes the case of Asea Brown Bowery (ABB),one of the first large investors in...

Videoton is the main contracting manufacturing company in the electronics industry in central Europe. The business model that has been developed through Videoton has greater relevance for understanding the growth of enterprises and the modes of integration of the Central and Eastern Europe into...