Success of retail firms is dependent on a motivated workforce, yet little is known about what job characteristics motivate employees from former command economies. Investigates 11 valent job motivators for Russian and Polish retail sales staff and their expectations of receiving these rewards....

Corruption is a serious problem for economies in transition. It causes retardation in the development of institutions conducive to economic growth. In this sense, it introduces inertia in transition dynamics. Generally, corruption is a deep‐rooted social and economic problem in developing...

The title is intentionally facetious, rhetorical and to be taken cum grano salis. For certain ones prone to confusing fact with fancy, the events in the USSR of 1989 and the appearance of John Paul II’s Centesimus Annus on the heels thereof respectively sounded the death‐knell for Marx’s...