Is corporate control in Russia and Poland shaped by the initial privatisation methods? What is the impact of the government? What is the role played by industrial networks and cross-ownership? By the banks and the capital markets? What are the factors behind some spectacular corporate failures? And how is our understanding enhanced by the resource based-, strategy- and political economy- perspectives, which complement the economic approach? Addressing these questions, this book draws conclusions, which in their comparative aspects reach beyond these two major transition economies.
Tomasz Marek Mickiewicz coordinates the Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in Europe and is also Senior Lecturer in Economic Restructuring at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London. He is an affiliate of the CASE Institute and publishes on comparative economic systems. His books include Unemployment in Transition with Janice Bell and Economic Transition in Central Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.