Research on East Central Europe has been a late-comer to the debate on Social Corporate Responsibility (CSR). The transition from planned to market economies dramatically changed the role of companies in those societies and led to a massive externalization of social functions previously held by...

1. Introduction : business leaders and the new varieties of capitalism in post-communist Europe / Katharina Bluhm, Bernd Martens and Vera Trappmann -- 2. Institutional transformation and business leaders of the new foreign-led capitalism in Poland / Krzysztof Jasiecki -- 3. The 'small...

The debate surrounding the erosion of the “German model” has fundamental flaws with respect to business leaders as crucial actors. First, the dynamic of career changes are still disputed; second, top-managers of banks, although they play an important role for the dissolution of the “Germany...

The introduction to the Special Issue on economic elites in Central Eastern Europe establishes a common understanding of elite research and the development of capitalism in Central Eastern Europe as developed during the 1990s. Since then, the composition of elites has been lost sight of by...