Journal for East European Management Studies

Openness and Innovation Within Organizations - an Empirical Analysis of the Transformation Process of Romanian Enterprises

In this study, the authors examine how societal and industrial sector-specific peculiarities moderate the translation of infra-organizational openness into innovativeness. A sample comprising N = 24 subsystems from privatized Romanian natural gas companies and N = 26 subsystems from privatized Romanian mechanical engineering companies was analyzed. With this study, the authors aim to contribute to answering the question which industrial sector-specific conditions are conducive to success give...

Training and Competence Development in the Sme Sector: The Hungarian Case

The lack of systematic knowledge on the SMEs training practices could be explained by the lack of financial resources and the low-motivation of managers to invest in skill development. This is the so-called "competence paradox", according to which firms investing in their employees' competence development simultaneously increase the risk that these employees will leave the company. Contrary to the traditional quantitative, survey based approach on SMEs training practices, this analysis intend...

Editorial

Which Club Does Your Alliance Belong To? An Empirical Classification of Strategic Alliances in Post-Transition Hungary

The article focuses on possible typologies of strategic alliance. The first section gives a brief overview of the major groupings of alliances followed by the detailed description of strategic alliance history in Hungary. Former alliance theories were not able to describe sufficiently the characteristics of Hungarian strategic alliances because those theories origin in the business environment of western economies. The author presents a new classification of strategic alliances of post-transi...

Book Reviews

Isolde Brade / Arne Sünnemann / Michael Anz: Russland. Aktuelle Probleme Und Tendenzen, Leipzig: Leibniz-Institut Für Länderkunde 2004

The book Russland. Aktuelle Probleme und Tendezen, Leipzig, by Isolde Brade, Arne Sunnemann and Michael Anz, is reviewed.