Social foundations of economy -- The argument -- Social-constructivist perspective on economic organization and action -- The empirical case: foreign direct investment in postsocialist europe -- From socialism to postsocialism -- Socialism -- Challenges of the postsocialist transformation:...

"This book intends to be a contribution to the 'varieties of capitalism' paradigm. The theoretical background is Weber's theory of legitimacy. Was communism ever 'legitimate'? What kind of legitimacy claims were made in the transition from communism to capitalism? Central Europe was closer to...

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, people across the former socialist world saw their lives transformed. In just a few years, labor markets were completely disrupted, and the meanings attached to work were drastically altered. How did people who found themselves living under state socialism one...