Critical Management Research in Eastern

Presenting a wealth of new ethnographic and interview-based research, Critical Management Research in Eastern Europe argues that the reform process in Central and Eastern Europe has been dominated by the traditional 'Western' view of management practice. However, this approach overlooks the fact that certain managerial and organizational practices developed in Central and Eastern Europe may still be appropriate and indeed effective within this particular setting. The book brings together authors from both East and West Europe to evaluate how the two systems can best be harmonized.

Mihaela Kelemen is in the Department of Management, Keele University.

Monika Kostera is at the University of Warsaw.

List of Figures

xi

List of Maps

xii

List of Tables

xiii

Foreword

xiv

Jens Holscher

Horst Tomann

Notes on the Contributors

xv

Acknowledgements

xix

List of Abbreviations

xx

Introduction: Travelling in Time and Space on the Winds of the Transition

1

(12)

Mihaela Kelemen

Monika Kostera

The traditional view on transition

2

(1)

Making sense of the transition

3

(5)

An unfinished story?!

8

(5)

Part I Stories of Change: Organizing Identities

Geographic Space, Banking Knowledge, and Transformation

13

(25)

Herbert Kalthoff

Introduction

13

(3)

The numeric representation of space

16

(13)

Cartographic representation and investment strategy

29

(5)

Conclusion

34

(4)

Accounting for Change: Accounting, Finance, and Changing Methods of Economic Regulation in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe

38

(27)

Elizabeth C. Dunn

The politics of accounting: a case study

39

(2)

Accounting as political practice: West and East

41

(4)

Socialist accounting: the classical model

45

(3)

Reform economics and accounting

48

(6)

Accounting in -- and for -- transition

54

(4)

Accounting, accountability and the corporate self

58

(3)

Concluding remarks

61

(4)

From Social Movements to Identity Transformation: Comparison of Estonian and Finnish Management Students' Values

65

(18)

Iiris Aaltio

Lembit Turnpuu

Mari Kooskora

Introduction

65

(1)

Comparing recent cultural developments in Estonia and Finland

66

(4)

Comparison of Estonian and Finnish students' values

70

(6)

Educational aspects of identity transformation

76

(7)

Part II Stories of the Past: Lost and Found Identities

Socioeconomic Conditions and Discursive Construction of Women's Identities in Post-Soviet Countries

83

(28)

Aneta Pavlenko

Introduction

83

(1)

Research methodology

84

(2)

Gender politics in the USSR and in the post-Soviet states

86

(3)

Reconceptualization of womanhood in the post-Soviet times

89

(20)

Conclusion

109

(2)

Control: Accounting for the Lost Innocence

111

(17)

Monika Kostera

Making sense of control

111

(1)

The narrative approach in organization studies

111

(2)

Dimensions of accounting

113

(2)

Control: The story of lost innocence

115

(9)

Kontrola -- a coda

124

(4)

Powerful Accounts: Identities, Principals and Agents

128

(15)

Karin Svedberg Nilsson

Accounting: regulating and constituting

129

(2)

Fieldwork

131

(1)

Organizational actors

131

(1)

Setting the stage for accounting reform

132

(2)

Project accounting as part of reform

134

(4)

Identities and boundaries

138

(2)

Principals and agents

140

(1)

Summary conclusions

141

(2)

Reinventing the Past: Stories about Communism and the Transition to a Market Economy in Romania

143

(21)

Mihaela Kelemen

Introduction

143

(3)

The past: a flexible resource?

146

(1)

The invented traditions of the present

147

(2)

Taking steps towards the reconstruction of the past

149

(2)

Going back to small stories: reinventing the present

151

(10)

The crafting of the future

161

(1)

Conclusions

162

(2)

The Impact of Societal Transformation on Czech Managers: A Study of Post-Communist Careers

164

(23)

Anna Soulsby

Introduction

164

(1)

Concepts of career, choice and life stages

164

(4)

Choice and managerial careers in the Czech context

168

(2)

The research project

170

(2)

The managers' careers: Support, compromise, compliance and dissent

172

(8)

Concluding discussion

180

(7)

Part III Managing the Transition: Crossovers in Practice and Representation

Local Problems and Foreign Solutions: Issues of Management Training in Russia and NIS

187

(16)

Bruno Grancelli

Management training in transitional societies: some preliminary remarks

187

(4)

An outline of TACIS policies in the field of management training in the NIS

191

(1)

The evaluation method

192

(2)

Achievements and failures

194

(4)

Lessons learned

198

(5)

Cross-Cultural Comparison between Hungarians and Expatriates

203

(14)

Henriett Primecz

Introduction

203

(1)

Perspectives on culture

204

(4)

The case study

208

(7)

Final reflection

215

(2)

When Reality Fails: Science Fiction and the Fall of Communism in Poland

217

(22)

Jerzy Kociatkiewicz

Monika Kostera

Introduction: when the walls fell

217

(1)

The reality: press accounts

218

(3)

The new order

221

(2)

Changing times

223

(1)

Encounters with the impossible

224

(6)

Stories of the actors

230

(3)

Our stories

233

(1)

Making sense of the stories

234

(5)

Bibliography

239

(20)

Index of Names

259

(5)

Subject Index

264

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