A central debate about the transformation of post-communists countries is how the process of institution building impacts firm restructuring and creation. This debate has largely been dominated by approaches that emphasize either the depoliticization of institutional designs or the determining...

This article attempts to account for both continuity and change in network structures and relationships by analyzing how a country's political approach to institution building interacts with network reproduction. While firm level actors may develop tenacious socio-economic relationships, the...