Restructuring Networks in Post-Socialism Legacies, Linkages and Localities [Hardcover]

This book is about change in Central and Eastern Europe, and about how we think about social and economic change more generally. In contrast to the dominant 'transition framework' that examines organizational forms in Eastern Europe according to 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, in which actors in the post-socialist setting are restructuring organizations and institutions by redefining and recombining resources. Instead of thinking of these recombinations as accidental aberrations, the book explores their evolutionary potentials.

The starting premise ofRestructuring Networks in Post-Socialist Societiesis that the actual unit of entrepreneurship is not the isolated individual personality but the social network that links firms and the actors within them. Drawing insight from evolutionary economics and from the 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.

1. Organizing Diversity: Evolutionary Theory, Network Analysis, and Post-Socialism.Gernot Grabher and David Stark
I. RECOMBINANT NETWORKS: PROPERTY TRANSFORMATION AND RESTRUCTURING OF LARGE FIRMS
2. Recombinant Property in East European Capitalism.David Stark
3. Renegotiating the Ties that Bind: The Limits of Privatization in the Czech Republic.Gerald A. McDermott
4. Adaptation at the Cost of Adaptability? Restructuring the Eastern German Regional Economy.Gernot Grabher
II. ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORKS: NEW FIRM FORMATION
5. Network Dynamics of New Firm Formation: Developing Russian Commodity Markets.Judith S. Sedaitis
6. Too Many, Too Small: Small Entrepreneurship in Hungary--Ailing or Prospering?.Istvan ls/