From Communists to Foreign Capitalists : The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe /

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"From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization ... The book explores how eleven post-socialist countries address the very idea of FDI as an integral part of their mark...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bandelj, Nina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Post-communism > Social aspects.
Investments, Foreign.
HISTORY > Europe > Eastern.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Investments & Securities > General.
Postcommunisme > Aspect social.
Investissements etrangers > Europe centrale.
Investissements etrangers > Europe de l'Est.
Investments, Foreign > Europe, Central.
Investments, Foreign > Europe, Eastern.
Eastern Europe.
Central Europe.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Social foundations of the economy
  • The argument
  • A social-constructivist perspective on economic organization and action
  • The empirical case: foreign direct investment in postsocialist Europe
  • From socialism to postsocialism
  • Socialism
  • Challenges of the transformation: shock therapy versus gradualism
  • The context of transformation
  • Conclusion
  • Institutionalization of FDI in postsocialism
  • FDI as instituted process
  • Legitimization of FDI practice
  • FDI trends since 1989
  • Explaining FDI inflows across countries over time
  • How postsocialist states create markets
  • Conclusion
  • Cross-country patterns in FDI flows
  • From country characteristics to relations between countries
  • Social relations as determinants of FDI flows
  • Embeddedness and globalization
  • Conclusion
  • Embeddedness of organizational FDI attempts
  • Invested transactions: the intricacies of FDI attempts
  • What determines FDI transactions?
  • Network embeddedness
  • Cultural embeddedness
  • Political embeddedness
  • Macro-institutional embeddedness
  • Embeddedness: structures-power-culture configurations
  • Conclusion
  • Uncertainty and the practice of FDI transactions
  • Rethinking instrumental rational action
  • Uncertainty
  • Practical action model
  • Substantive varieties of rationality
  • Procedural varieties of action
  • Logic of decision-making practice : routines, emotions, creativity
  • Conclusion
  • Embedded economies
  • Creation of markets: from one kind of embeddedness to another
  • Operation of markets : structures-power-culture configurations
  • Varieties of postsocialist capitalism
  • Conclusion.

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