The paper analyses results of GUS innovation survey in manufacturing for 1998-2000 and innovation survey in services for 1997-1999. Innovation activities in 1998-2000 reflect downturn in Polish economy of this period. A number of innovative enterprises fell from 37.6 (1994-96) to 16.9...

Polish businesses are passing the fifteen year mark of the free market experience. The important processes that could be observed during that time include the formation of the groups of companies. What were the establishment paths of these multiple organisations and what was the impact of...

This paper reviews and explores the major effects of the FDI on industry restructuring of the CEE automotive industry. In particular, we are interested if automotive companies have exploited the value creation potential of CEE? Which factors explain the scale and depth of automotive industry...

Slovenia is a small economy, which is somehow “condemned” to be open and highly internationalised. Relatively high shares of exports and imports in GDP indicate that the economy is highly dependent on foreign markets and inputs. This orientation is additionally strengthened by the final...

The paper examines state characteristics and their policy implications in five Central European post-communist countries. It argues that policies on macroeconomic stabilisation, privatisation and FDI had been shaped by state-society relations, which, in turn, had been affected by policy...

One of the important aspects in the design of social protection is coverage. In Peru, as in most Latin American countries, social security participation is compulsory only for workers in the ‘formal’ sector. We investigate the determinants of voluntary enrolment in the private pension system...

This paper analyses the emergence of central Europe as a new location for the production of electronics. The main factors that drive integration in the region into global production networks are also analysed, as well as prospects for upgrading the industry by using network alignment...

This paper seeks to outline the innovations strategies that various corporations have pursued in Central Europe over the last few decades. It will examine from a corporate perspective the scope and definition of innovation, highlighting how this has changed in today’s eclectic ever changing...

Using panel data on large Polish firms this paper examines the relationship between corporate control structures, sales growth and the determinants of employment change during the period 1996- 2002. We find that privatised and de novo firms are the main drivers of employment growth and that, in...

16 September 2005 In this paper we present a simple three-sector model explaining the structural change in employment, which is a modified version of Rowthorn-Wells (1987). We supplement the theoretical analysis with simple econometric tests, which illustrate how the modified Rowthorn-Wells...