Leading sociologists, economists, and political scientists here analyze current changes in Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on a range of contemporary perspectives (such as evolutionary economics, and network analysis) they question many of the assumptions associated with the notion of...

The paper combines approaches of macro-economic regulation and interactionalanalysis in order to study the impact of privatisation on wage relationsof the French and the German public telephone operator in the field of directoryinquiry services. This multi-level (individual, local and...