Description
This book is about change in Central and Eastern Europe, and about how we consider social and economic change more in most cases. In contrast to the dominant ‘transition framework’ that examines organizational forms in Eastern Europe in step with the degree to which they conform to, or depart from, the blueprints of already existing capitalist systems, this book examines the innovative character, born of necessity, wherein actors within the post-socialist setting are restructuring organizations and institutions by redefining and recombining resources. As a substitute of thinking of these recombinations as accidental aberrations, the book explores their evolutionary potentials.
The starting premise of Restructuring Networks in Post-Socialist Societies is that the true unit of entrepreneurship isn’t the isolated individual personality however the social network that links firms and the actors within them. Drawing insight from evolutionary economics and from the brand new methods of network analysis, leading sociologists, economists, and political scientists report on changes in organizational forms in Hungary, Poland, Eastern Germany, Russia, and the Czech Republic.