Critical Management Research in Eastern Europe Managing the Transition,9780333987094

Critical Management Research in Eastern Europe Managing the Transition

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ISBN13: 9780333987094
ISBN10: 0333987098
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-01-18
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Presenting a wealth of new ethnographic and interview-based research, Critical Management Research in Eastern Europe argues that the reform process in Central and Eastern Europe has been dominated by the traditional 'Western' view of management practice. However, this approach overlooks the fact that certain managerial and organizational practices developed in Central and Eastern Europe may still be appropriate and indeed effective within this particular setting. The book brings together authors from both East and West Europe to evaluate how the two systems can best be harmonized.

Author Biography

Mihaela Kelemen is in the Department of Management, Keele University.

Monika Kostera is at the University of Warsaw.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
xi
List of Maps
xii
List of Tables
xiii
Foreword xiv
Jens Holscher
Horst Tomann
Notes on the Contributors xv
Acknowledgements xix
List of Abbreviations
xx
Introduction: Travelling in Time and Space on the Winds of the Transition
1(12)
Mihaela Kelemen
Monika Kostera
The traditional view on transition
2(1)
Making sense of the transition
3(5)
An unfinished story?!
8(5)
Part I Stories of Change: Organizing Identities
Geographic Space, Banking Knowledge, and Transformation
13(25)
Herbert Kalthoff
Introduction
13(3)
The numeric representation of space
16(13)
Cartographic representation and investment strategy
29(5)
Conclusion
34(4)
Accounting for Change: Accounting, Finance, and Changing Methods of Economic Regulation in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe
38(27)
Elizabeth C. Dunn
The politics of accounting: a case study
39(2)
Accounting as political practice: West and East
41(4)
Socialist accounting: the classical model
45(3)
Reform economics and accounting
48(6)
Accounting in -- and for -- transition
54(4)
Accounting, accountability and the corporate self
58(3)
Concluding remarks
61(4)
From Social Movements to Identity Transformation: Comparison of Estonian and Finnish Management Students' Values
65(18)
Iiris Aaltio
Lembit Turnpuu
Mari Kooskora
Introduction
65(1)
Comparing recent cultural developments in Estonia and Finland
66(4)
Comparison of Estonian and Finnish students' values
70(6)
Educational aspects of identity transformation
76(7)
Part II Stories of the Past: Lost and Found Identities
Socioeconomic Conditions and Discursive Construction of Women's Identities in Post-Soviet Countries
83(28)
Aneta Pavlenko
Introduction
83(1)
Research methodology
84(2)
Gender politics in the USSR and in the post-Soviet states
86(3)
Reconceptualization of womanhood in the post-Soviet times
89(20)
Conclusion
109(2)
Control: Accounting for the Lost Innocence
111(17)
Monika Kostera
Making sense of control
111(1)
The narrative approach in organization studies
111(2)
Dimensions of accounting
113(2)
Control: The story of lost innocence
115(9)
Kontrola -- a coda
124(4)
Powerful Accounts: Identities, Principals and Agents
128(15)
Karin Svedberg Nilsson
Accounting: regulating and constituting
129(2)
Fieldwork
131(1)
Organizational actors
131(1)
Setting the stage for accounting reform
132(2)
Project accounting as part of reform
134(4)
Identities and boundaries
138(2)
Principals and agents
140(1)
Summary conclusions
141(2)
Reinventing the Past: Stories about Communism and the Transition to a Market Economy in Romania
143(21)
Mihaela Kelemen
Introduction
143(3)
The past: a flexible resource?
146(1)
The invented traditions of the present
147(2)
Taking steps towards the reconstruction of the past
149(2)
Going back to small stories: reinventing the present
151(10)
The crafting of the future
161(1)
Conclusions
162(2)
The Impact of Societal Transformation on Czech Managers: A Study of Post-Communist Careers
164(23)
Anna Soulsby
Introduction
164(1)
Concepts of career, choice and life stages
164(4)
Choice and managerial careers in the Czech context
168(2)
The research project
170(2)
The managers' careers: Support, compromise, compliance and dissent
172(8)
Concluding discussion
180(7)
Part III Managing the Transition: Crossovers in Practice and Representation
Local Problems and Foreign Solutions: Issues of Management Training in Russia and NIS
187(16)
Bruno Grancelli
Management training in transitional societies: some preliminary remarks
187(4)
An outline of TACIS policies in the field of management training in the NIS
191(1)
The evaluation method
192(2)
Achievements and failures
194(4)
Lessons learned
198(5)
Cross-Cultural Comparison between Hungarians and Expatriates
203(14)
Henriett Primecz
Introduction
203(1)
Perspectives on culture
204(4)
The case study
208(7)
Final reflection
215(2)
When Reality Fails: Science Fiction and the Fall of Communism in Poland
217(22)
Jerzy Kociatkiewicz
Monika Kostera
Introduction: when the walls fell
217(1)
The reality: press accounts
218(3)
The new order
221(2)
Changing times
223(1)
Encounters with the impossible
224(6)
Stories of the actors
230(3)
Our stories
233(1)
Making sense of the stories
234(5)
Bibliography 239(20)
Index of Names 259(5)
Subject Index 264

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