The process of transition in Eastern European countries is one in which ideas of the past and present, both local and Western, meet and conflict. 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, which is particularly important in the context of EU enlargement.

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IIRIS AALTIO-MARJOSOLA Professor of Management, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland ELIZABETH C. DUNN Assistant Professor of Geography and International Affairs, University of Colorado, Boulder BRUNO GRANCELLI Associate Professor of Political Sociology, University of Trento HERBERT KALTHOFF Researcher, Frankfurt Institute for Transformation Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt JERZY KOCIATKIEWICZ Graduate School for Social Research, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences MARI KOOSKORA Editor-in-Chief of Estonian Business School Review and Head of Business Ethics Working Group KARIN SVEDBERG NILSSON Researcher, Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics ANETA PAVLENKO Assistant Professor, College of Education, Temple University, Philadelphia HENRIETT PRIMECZ Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration ANNA SOULSBY Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour, Nottingham University Business School LEMBIT TURNPUU Professor Emeritus, Estonian Business School, and Tallin Pedagogical University

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List of Figures List of Maps List of Tables Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Travelling in Time and Space on the Winds of the Transition; M.Kelemen & M.Kostera PART I: STORIES OF CHANGE: ORGANIZING IDENTITIES Geographical Space, Banking Knowledge, and Transformation; H.Kalthoff Accounting for Change: Accounting, Finance, and Changing Methods of Economic Regulation in Postsocialist Eastern Europe; E.C.Dunn From Social Movements to Identity Transformation: Comparison of Estonian and Finnish Management Students' Values; I.Aaltio-Marjosola, L.Turnpuu & M.Kooskora PART II: STORIES OF THE PAST: LIST AND FOUND IDENTITIES Socioeconomic Conditions and Discursive Construction of Women's Identities in Post-Soviet Countries; A.Pavlenko Control: Accounting for the Lost Innocence; M.Kostera Powerful Accounts: Identities, Principals and Agents; K.S.Nilsson Re-inventing the Past: Stories about Communism and the Transition to a Market Economy in Romania; M.Kelemen The Impact of Societal Transformation on Czech Managers: A Study of Post-Communist Careers; A.Soulsby PART III: MANAGING THE TRANSITION: CROSSOVERS IN PRACTICE AND REPRESENTATION Local Problems and Foreign Solutions: Issues of Management Training in Russia and NIS; B.Grancelli Cross-Cultural Comparison Between Hungarians and Expatriates; H.Primecz When Reality Fails: Science and the Fall of Communism in Poland; J.Kociatkiewicz & M.Kostera Endnotes Index