Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)