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1 online resource (xi, 313 pages). |
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polychrome |
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De Gruyter studies in organization ; 65
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De Gruyter studies in organization ; 65.
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| Note |
Most of the papers were delivered at a workshop held at the University of Trento in Dec. 1993. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Who Should Learn What? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Homo Sovieticus -- 3 Managers and Post-Socialist Enterprises -- 4 Elites, Citizens, Working People, and Institutional Reconstruction -- 5 Modernization: Projects and Processes -- 6 Social Change and Modernization: Lessons From and For Eastern Europe -- 7 Neo-Modernization Analysis: New Theoretical Challenges -- References -- Part One. The Actors of Change -- Contemporary Russian Society and its Soviet Legacy : The Problem of State-Dependent Workers -- 1 Soviet Society and the State-Dependent Worker |
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2 The Emergence of State Dependency as a Historical Process3 State-Dependent Worker and the Basic Social Groups -- 4 State-dependent Workers and Social Mobilization in Soviet Society -- 5 Basic Modes of Crisis-Adaptation -- 6 State Populism in the Russian Republic -- References -- New Entrepreneurs: Continuity or Change in Russian Economy and Society? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Modernization, the Russian Transition, and Entrepreneurs -- 3 Russian Entrepreneurs and their Contribution to Social Change -- 4 Conclusion -- References |
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From the Communist Nomenklatura to Transformational Leadership: The Role of Management in the Post-communist Enterprises1 Introduction -- 2 The Role of Management in the Communist Enterprises: The legacy of the past -- 3 The Agents of Domestic Change -- 4 Cultural change with Foreign Participation -- 5 Local Managerial Skills -- References -- Modernizing Post-Soviet Management: A Comparative View -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Socialist Enterprise -- 3 Post-Socialist Organizations -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- References |
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Strategies of Post-communist Transformations: Elites as Institution-Builders1 Political Elites and Institutional Change -- 2 Market and Democracy -- 3 Communism and Civil Society -- 4 Society, and Elites in Transition -- 5 Elites as Institution Builders -- 6 Functional and Stratificational Perspectives on Elites -- 7 Design and Spontaneity -- 8 Strategies of Institution Building -- 9 Types of Political Elite -- 10 Systemic Obstacles to Post-communist Transformation -- 11 Types of Elites and the Quality of Transition -- References |
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Part Two. Globalization, Retraditionalisation and Societal ModernisationBeyond Modernization: The Retraditionalisation of Ex- and Post-Yugoslavian Society -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Contradictory Coalition and its Inherent Dilemmas -- 3 Re-bureaucratization and New/Old Liasons -- 4 On the Fringes of the Global System -- 5 Reperipherialization as Retraditionalisation -- 6 Memorandum for Modernity -- 7 The New Nationalism Anathema of Reason? -- References -- Participation at the Firm Level in the Transformation Process (Three blank slips of paper and a pigeon feather) |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Management -- Europe, Eastern -- Congresses.
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Management. |
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Eastern Europe. |
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Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern -- Congresses.
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Post-communism. |
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Europe, Eastern -- Economic conditions -- 1989- -- Congresses.
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Economic conditions. |
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1989- |
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Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 1989- -- Congresses.
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1989 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Grancelli, Bruno, 1943-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Social change and modernization. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 1995 (DLC) 95016611 |
| ISBN |
9783110884470 (electronic book) |
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311088447X (electronic book) |
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3110144905 (acid-free paper) |
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9783110144901 |
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