Business Leaders and New Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Communist Europe

Katharina Bluhm, Bernd Martens, Vera Trappmann

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English

Routledge
21 January 2016

Social classes; Sociology; Business studies: general

Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

Business leaders exert extraordinary influence on institution building in market economies but they think and act within institutional settings. This book combines both an elite approach with a varieties-of-capitalism approach. Comparing Poland, Hungary and East and West Germany, we perceive the transformations in East Central Europe and in Germany after 1989 as being intertwined.

Based on a joint survey, this book seeks to measure the level of the convergence of ideas among European business leaders, assuming it to be more extensive than the institutional convergence expected under the dominance of neoliberal discourse. Analyzing the institutional framework, organizational features like size, ownership and labour relations, and subjective characteristics like age, social origin, career patterns and attitudes of the recent business elites, we found significant differences between countries and the types of organization. The growing importance of economic degrees and internationalization shows astonishingly little explanatory power on the views of business leaders. The idea of a coordinated market economy is still relatively widespread among Germans, while their Hungarian and Polish counterparts are more likely to display a minimalist view of corporate responsibility to society and adverse attitudes towards employee representation. However, their attitudes frequently tend to be inconsistent, which mirrors the mixed type of capitalism in East Central Europe.

Edited by: Katharina Bluhm, Bernd Martens, Vera Trappmann
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138652088
ISBN 10: 1138652083
Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 21 January 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katharina Bluhm is a Professor of Sociology at the Free University Berlin, Germany Bernd Martens is a Senior Researcher in the Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany Vera Trappman is a Junior Professor of Macro Sociology at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany