This book links political and economic sociology examining how postsocialist property changes are rooted in the socialist past and how they relate to the meaning and practices of transition states and their capacity for sustainable economic development. It raises the issue of the applicability...

Introduction, adaptation and change : old problems, new approaches / Stephen K. Wegren and David J. O'Brien -- Adaptation of Russian agriculture to a market economy. Entrepreneurship and the Siberian peasant commune in late imperial Russia / Igor V. Volgine. The impact of land reform on the...

We use longitudinal methods and universal panel data on 30,000 initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage...

Die Hauptziele der Privatisierung in der ungarischen Lebensmittelindustrie waren deren Restrukturierung und die Erhöhung ihrer Wettbewerbskraft sowie das Erreichen von staatlichen Gewinnen zur Finanzierung der Staatsverschuldung. Ausländisches Kapital strömt vor allem in die großen...