The role of state in development of socio-economic models in Hungary and Slovakia: the case of industrial policy

The automotive industry in Central Europe: A success?

“…Fourth, governments enacted favorable industrial policy and built up professionalized investment support services to attract and retain foreign investments [11]. In the early 1990s, Visegrad governments opened up to FDI to various extents and at different speeds.…”

“…The author thanks three anonymous referees and the IZA World of Labor editors for many helpful suggestions on earlier drafts. Previous work of the author contains a larger number of background references for the material presented here and has been used intensively in all major parts of this article [4], [8], [9], [11].…”

Public management, policy capacity, innovation and development

“…Amsden (1989), Amsden and Chu (2003), Cheng et al (1998), Chou (1995), Haggard (1990 and, Haggard et al (1994), Johnson (1982), Lee and Haggard (1995), Lim (2012 and, Nam and Lee (1995), Wade (1990;. For Eastern Europe, see Becker and Weissebacher (2007), Bohle and Greskovits (2009), Bouckaert et al (2008), Duman and Kurekova (2012), Gabor (2012), Karo (2011), Karo and Kattel (2010a), Karo and Looga (forthcoming), Kattel (2010), Kattel et al (2009b), Lande and Myant (2007), Mrak et al (2004), Myant and Drahokoupil (2010), Nemec (2008), Piech and Radosevic (2006), Radosevic (2009 and1998), Suurna and Kattel (2010), Török (2007).…”

Into the First League: The Competitive Advantage of the Antivirus Industry in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

“…Third, concentrating on domestic rivalry, Porter highlights the negative role governments can play by generating distortion in the competitive environment by, for example, choosing national champions and shielding the growth of domestic industries. Studies of Central Europe have argued for a key role of the state in spurring the success of the region's leading sectors (automotive and electronics industries) and in the process of the region's integration into the global economy (Bernaciak & Šcepanovic, 2010; Bohle & Greskovits, 2007; Duman & Kureková, 2012). Government efforts to attract foreign capital and stimulate upgrades have interacted with the importance of inherited factor conditions, mainly the availability of cheap, docile and skilled labour, geographical closeness to EU markets and political stability in view of the region's integration into the EU (Bohle & Greskovits, 2012).…”

“…While CMEs tend to excel in specific skills and incremental innovation, in LMEs general skills and radical innovation prevail. Regionally specific works on socio-economic models of capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe have demonstrated that institutional frameworks that have evolved as an outcome of the transition are sui generis and cannot be directly compared to the advanced economies (Bohle & Greskovits, 2007, 2012; Duman & Kureková, 2012; Myant & Drahokoupil, 2011a; Nölke and Vliegenthart, 2009). Analytical investigation of the domestically-grown, but globally successful, antivirus industry can therefore enrich regionally focused works as well as more general frameworks studying sources of national competitive advantage.…”