Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- I: Introduction -- II: The Organizational Structure of Heavy Industry -- III: The Composition of Firm Management -- IV: Formation of Plans -- V: Limitations of the Plan -- VI: Centralized Operational Direction of Firms -- VII: Plant Management’s...

The sixties were a decade of major reform in the guidance of industry in the socialist countries of Eastern Europe. In this comparative study of industrial management, the different directions taken by reform in the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, and Yugoslavia are examined against the...