From Communists to foreign capitalists : the social foundations of foreign direct investment in postsocialist Europe / Nina Bandelj.

Author/creator Bandelj, Nina
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxviii, 303 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Investments, Foreign--Europe, Eastern.
Investments, Foreign--Europe, Central.
Post-communism--Social aspects.

Contents Social foundations of the economy -- The argument -- A 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 transformation: shock therapy versus 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 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-289) and index.
LCCN 2007015167
ISBN9780691129129 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0691129126 (cloth : alk. paper)