We examine financial constraints and forms of finance used for investment, byanalysing survey data on 157 large privatised companies in Hungary and Poland for theperiod 1998 – 2000. The Bayesian analysis using Gibbs sampling is carried out toobtain inferences about the sample companies’...

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...

This paper aims at understanding the impact of industrial networks with foreign and otherdomestic organizations on industrial upgrading of the clothing companies in Poland andRomania over the past decade. The research presented in this paper is based oninterviews carried out in ten large...

The paper summarises some of the key findings of research on the macro and microeconomic effects of FDI, the impact of the MNCs on development, industrial and trade restructuring, and presents a first attempt to draw a map of industrial networks in Hungary. It answers the question whether the...

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...