Journal for East European Management Studies

Editorial

Formal and Informal Ways of Learning in Employer-Provided Further Training in East and West German Enterprises: Results From a Large-Scale Establishment Survey

The paper analyses the mix of training forms in employer-provided training in East and West German enterprises with a special emphasis on informal and work-integrated forms of learning. Recent studies have shown that East German enterprises are at least as active in employer-provided training as West German firms. However, these studies are limited to formal ways of further training. Based on a large-scale enterprise survey and ordered-logit regressions, differences in employer-provided furth...

Why Do Companies Go Private in Emerging Markets? Evidence From Poland

In recent years the number of going private transactions has considerably increased in emerging markets. The purpose of this study is to define the financial characteristics of companies that have gone private using a dataset comprising Polish companies. By applying a probit model we were able to distinguish the difference between firms that went private and those that did not. We found that the probability of going private grew with an increase in the concentration of foreign ownership, a ri...

Co-Ordination Media in Cross-National Networks of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Not only large corporations but also SMEs increasingly organise into cross-border networks, in order to benefit from the advantages of international division of labour. As regards the co-ordination of network activities it makes sense to distinguish between the role of social co-ordination media and the factual and temporal co-ordination of network activities. Social co-ordination media are geared to the generation of mutual "reliability". Their mode of operating is closely linked to the inte...

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Organizational Culture of Czech Manufacturing Companies: An Empirical Typology

The contribution presents the results of research into organizational culture of Czech manufacturing companies. The study was carried out on a sample of respondents from top, medium and low management from 74 companies. The analysis of organizational culture was performed on the levels of values, norms and selected aspects of perceiving and behaving which are shared in the organization. The data obtained through questionnaires were processed by means of factor and cluster analyses. The resear...