Journal for East European Management Studies

Editorial

Management Across Borders - a Multidisciplinary Approach Towards Globalisation and Diffusion Processes in Central and Eastern Europe

Globalization, Transformation and the Diffusion of Management Innovations

This paper suggests a shift from the discourse on transfer and transition with regard to CEE societies towards one focusing on transformation proceses that come with globalization. Since globalization can be interpreted as the spread of ideas, informations, practices, goods and techniques, the perspective of the diffusion of management innovations is introduced and enlarged by including power relations, the interests of actors and cultural aspects of change. The argument of culture as barrier...

Devolving Responsibilities for Human Resources to Line Management? An Empirical Study About Convergence in Europe

The lively debate about converging or diverging management practices is not yet decided. Human resource management (HRM) is no exception. Using the widely discussed issue of HR specialists handing over HR tasks to line management as an example, the article analyses whether European companies in the last decade have adopted similar HR practices and whether successful European companies are similar to each other in this respect. The results show that there is no trend towards convergence in Eur...

Culture Standards and Their Impact On Teamwork - an Empirical Analysis of Austrian, German, Hungarian and Spanish Culture Differences

This article examines the impact of different cultural standards on the processes and performances of Austrian, Spanish, German and Hungarian task groups. We therefore analyzed 201 qualitative interviews with Austrians, Spaniards, Germans and Hungarians, which were conducted from 1996 to 2001. This paper uses the cultural standard framework as its theoretical background as well as the concepts of team development. The emphasis on our research is on those culture standards that have been ident...

The Concept of Den'gi (Money) in the St. Petersburg Population at the Beginning of the 1990s

Social change brings about discursive change. Particularly, it causes shifts of meaning within the key concepts of social discourse. The concept of den'gi (money) has undergone fundamental alteration in Russian language and culture since perestroika. This conceptual change will be discussed in the following article. My findings are based on a corpus of interviews recorded in St. Petersburg in 1993. The concepts compared, i.e. the concept of den'gi before and after perestroika, respectively, c...

'Profit': A New Key Concept in Russia and the Czech Republic. Parallels and Differences

The article describes how the concepts - i.e. people's knowledge and attitude - connected to the Russian and Czech words for profit have changed during the transformation after 1989. In the socialist period capitalist profit maximization is stereotypically damned whereas the socialist profit remains rather an internal matter of the enterprises. In the 1990es both the profits of particular enterprises and the general notion of profit become a public matter. In specialized and newspaper texts p...

Trust in Transition: A Multi-Layered Game with Many Unknown Factors

Trust is a blurred, and controversially discussed, topic of social science that has become particularly attractive for empirical work in economic sociology. For that reason a conference took place in St. Petersburg from 16th until 17th December 2002, organized by the Faculty of Sociology of the State University of St. Petersburg and the Institute of Sociology of the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, and titled "Trust: Theoretical Approaches and Perspectives of Analysis". About 30 sci...