Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and diagrams; Tables; Boxes; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Formal and informal institutions of the socialist era; 1.1 Political system and development; 1.1.1 The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia; 1.2 Legal and enforcing system;...

"This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on government intervention and unexpected consequences in industrial history. With contributions on organisational structure, the quality of corporate...

This book describes the process of the Czech economic transformation from the beginning of the 1990s to the country's entry into the European Union in 2004. This transformation is divided into four periods: an initial recession caused by the transformation; economic growth in the mid-1990s; a...