From communists to foreign capitalists the social foundations of foreign direct investment in postsocialist Europe

Social foundations of economy -- The argument -- Social-constructivist perspective on economic organization and action -- The empirical case: foreign direct investment in postsocialist europe -- From socialism to postsocialism -- Socialism -- Challenges of the postsocialist transformation: shock-the...

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1. Verfasser: Bandelj, Nina (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J u.a. Princeton University Press 2008
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Zusammenfassung:Social foundations of economy -- The argument -- Social-constructivist perspective on economic organization and action -- The empirical case: foreign direct investment in postsocialist europe -- From socialism to postsocialism -- Socialism -- Challenges of the postsocialist transformation: shock-therapy vs. gradualism -- The context of transformation -- Conclusion -- Institutionalization of FDI in postsocialism -- FDI as instituted process -- Legitimization of FDI practice -- FDI trends since 1989 -- Explaining fdi inflows across countries over time -- How postsocialist states create markets -- Conclusion -- Cross-country patterns in fDI flows -- From a focus on country characteristics to relations between countries -- Social relations as determinants of FDI flows -- Embeddedness and globalization -- Conclusion -- Embeddedness of organizational FDI attempts -- Invested transactions: the intricacies of FDI attempts -- What determines FDI transactions? -- Network embeddedness -- Cultural embeddedness -- Political embeddedness -- Macro-institutional embeddedness -- Embeddedness: structures-power-culture configurations -- Conclusion -- Uncertainty and the practice of FDI transactions -- Rethinking instrumental rational action -- Uncertainty -- Practical action model -- Substantive varieties of rationality -- Procedural varieties of action -- Logic of decision-making practice : routines, emotions, creativity -- Conclusion -- Embedded economies -- Creation of markets: from one kind of embeddedness to another -- Operation of markets : structures-power-culture configurations -- Varieties of postsocialist capitalism -- Conclusion
Social foundations of economy -- The argument -- Social-constructivist perspective on economic organization and action -- The empirical case: foreign direct investment in postsocialist europe -- From socialism to postsocialism -- Socialism -- Challenges of the postsocialist transformation: shock-therapy vs. gradualism -- The context of transformation -- Conclusion -- Institutionalization of FDI in postsocialism -- FDI as instituted process -- Legitimization of FDI practice -- FDI trends since 1989 -- Explaining fdi inflows across countries over time -- How postsocialist states create markets -- Conclusion -- Cross-country patterns in fDI flows -- From a focus on country characteristics to relations between countries -- Social relations as determinants of FDI flows -- Embeddedness and globalization -- Conclusion -- Embeddedness of organizational FDI attempts -- Invested transactions: the intricacies of FDI attempts -- What determines FDI transactions? -- Network embeddedness -- Cultural embeddedness -- Political embeddedness -- Macro-institutional embeddedness -- Embeddedness: structures-power-culture configurations -- Conclusion -- Uncertainty and the practice of FDI transactions -- Rethinking instrumental rational action -- Uncertainty -- Practical action model -- Substantive varieties of rationality -- Procedural varieties of action -- Logic of decision-making practice : routines, emotions, creativity -- Conclusion -- Embedded economies -- Creation of markets: from one kind of embeddedness to another -- Operation of markets : structures-power-culture configurations -- Varieties of postsocialist capitalism -- Conclusion
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XVIII, 303 S.
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ISBN:0691129126
0-691-12912-6
9780691129129
978-0-691-12912-9