Capabilities, Routines, and East European Economic Reform: Hungary and Poland before and after the 1989 Revolutions

Swaan, Wim; Lissowska, Maria

doi:10.1080/00213624.1996.11505864

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“…While Hungary pursued a policy of privatization through one-by-one direct sales, preferably to foreign capital (cf. Gray, 1996;Swain, 1998), Poland's approach was more piecemeal and often frustrated by conflicting powerful interests (Swaan and Lissowska, 1996). The Czech approach of subjecting formerly state-owned enterprises to the discipline of the competitive market place, under the watchful eye of new owners, seemed to be the perfect complement to the expansion of a new private sector, minimizing the pain of unemployment.…”

Section: Employment and The Neo-liberal Transitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Changing patterns of employment in post-socialist organizations in Central and Eastern Europe: management action in a transitional context

Soulsby¹,

Clark²

2006

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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This article develops an alternative theoretical framework to the dominant 'top-down' macroeconomic and institutional views that have been so influential in studies of the post-socialist economic transition. The authors argue that in order to understand economic outcomes more fully, researchers need to adopt a theoretical approach that combines the sociological reasoning of the institutionalist view with micro-processual arguments that theorize employment and unemployment as outcomes of everyday social construction. Inverting the normal economic approach of starting from macro-economic trends and inferring the motives and practices of local socio-economic actors, the authors, therefore, seek to develop a 'ground-up' mode of explanation of unemployment dynamics that commences from the examination of the real decision-making practices and processes of socially embedded enterprise managers. Drawing on evidence from longitudinal case study research, the authors demonstrate that enterprise restructuring has not been a uniform or monocausal process and highlight the dangers of over-generalization from aggregated data.

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Section: Employment and The Neo-liberal Transitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It appeared that transition was not a simple question of formal institutional design, and that institutional design was not a simple question at all (cf. Hoen, 1996;Swaan and Lissowska, 1996).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Changing patterns of employment in post-socialist organizations in Central and Eastern Europe: management action in a transitional context

Soulsby¹,

Clark²

2006

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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“…Second, routines focus attention. They guide search and reduce the space of events that managers should scan in order to avoid bad surprises and take advantage of good ones (Shapira, 1994;Swaan, Lissowska, 1996). This effect is attained by ignoring what is not given attention (Garud, Rappa, 1994).…”

Section: Functions and Dysfunctionsmentioning

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Organizational routines and context alteration: a reconciliation

Stańczyk-Hugiet¹,

Piórkowska²,

Stańczyk³

2017

Argumenta Oeconomica

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The ability to adapt to a changing environment is necessary for the survival of organizations. The choice under uncertainty conditions is one of the central problems in managerial theories of choice. That is also the reason why evolutionary researchers seek a way of adapting to the environment, and one of the concepts embedded in an evolutionary stream are the routines. The routines constitute a generative, dynamic, and emerging system that creates various effects regarded as the continuum: from very stable to continuously changeable ones. The purpose of the paper is to shed light on the routine concept based on the management, evolutionary and change literature. Consequently the paper presents a conceptual framework concerning the relationships between the relative rate of the context changes and the nature of routines, resulting in their different types. The potential setting and research directions for the empirical studies based on this conceptual framework have been also addressed. The methodology encompasses a deductive approach and the method that has been used is critical literature studies. The overarching key finding of the paper is that routines constitute a social phenomenon that is always a barrier to changes, yet regarding evolutionary theory, it is also the chance for changes.

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“…Regulatory changes intentionally and unintentionally largely reduced the value of economic initiatives. The biggest problem was not that the enterprises were faced with too many constraints, but rather that it was unknown to them what exactly the constraints were (Swaan and Lisowska 1996). However, the approach of IE towards public regulation is used to explain the process of creating institutional market foundations in “emerging market economies” (Wilkin 2008; Szabolcs 2007).…”

Section: Institutionalism In Polish Economics—main Aspects Of Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Every country needs to choose its own way toward transformation. As Swaan and Lisowska (1996) argue, the “economic performance depends upon the interplay between incentives, institutions, and capabilities. Changes in incentives alone, for instance through price liberalization, financial stabilization, and ownership changes, will be unable to bring about immediate, radical improvements in performance.”…”

Section: The Role Of the State In The Transformed Economymentioning

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Economics Performance and Institutional Economics in Poland After 1989

Ziomek¹

2010

American J Econ Sociol

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Capabilities, Routines, and East European Economic Reform: Hungary and Poland before and after the 1989 Revolutions

Cited by 30 publications

References 31 publications

Changing patterns of employment in post-socialist organizations in Central and Eastern Europe: management action in a transitional context

Changing patterns of employment in post-socialist organizations in Central and Eastern Europe: management action in a transitional context

Organizational routines and context alteration: a reconciliation

Economics Performance and Institutional Economics in Poland After 1989

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