Edited by Vladimir Unkovski-Korica and Sa\u0161a Vejzagi\u0107<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This book breaks new ground, taking business history where it has only reluctantly gone in the past. The introduction reviews the small, but growing, literature, based on fresh archival materials, which investigates the history of business organisation in the Global East, or the Second World in the Cold War. It argues that there is already a great variety of approaches that go beyond the view of the Soviet-style firm as primarily a production function. Focusing on East Germany and Yugoslavia, seven chapters showcase new directions in the field, and demonstrate that the combination of business history with other historical and disciplinary approaches can help unpack the diversity of historical experiences, explain geographical variances, and offer new avenues for synthesis. The volume\u2019s exploration of different historical eras, including those of postwar reconstruction, through globalisation, to transformation, also shows that the Global East should not be treated as disconnected from the rest of the world, but as part of wider, global trends. As such, the volume makes a plea for the utility of studying the Global East to business history and the utility of business history to the study of the Global East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Business History.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Introduction: Business history goes East<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vladimir Unkovski-Korica and Sa\u0161a Vejzagi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. <\/strong>Persistent centralisation of decision-making in the age of industrial atomisation and self-management on the case of construction company Industrogradnja Zagreb (1966\u20131980)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sa\u0161a Vejzagi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. <\/strong>Tensions between plan and market in a political factory in socialist Kosovo<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pieter Troch<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. <\/strong>Management of technological innovation: High tech R&D in the GDR<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dolores L. Augustine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. <\/strong>Workers against technocrats: The failed economic reform and the rise of consumer socialism in the German Democratic Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eszter Bartha<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. <\/strong>Entrepreneurs as saviours of socialism? The complicated relationship between East German state socialism and entrepreneurship<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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