The 23 former socialist countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) started the transition in 1989-1990 from a common institutional and organizational heritage, represented by the Soviet agricultural model. Despite the common heritage in...

"TQM, Reengineering, Theory of Constraints, JIT, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing ... These are just some of the methods that, over the past five decades, have promised to transform any manufacturing firm into a lean, mean, money-making machine. While each incorporates certain fundamental truths,...