Business History Volume 65 No. 7 (Annotated)
Special Issue Socialist Entrepreneurs? Business Histories of the GDR and Yugoslavia
Dolores L. Augustine examines innovation in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) through the analysis of management culture in the elec-tronics and microelectronics R&D field. See the article “Management of Technological Innovation: High Tech R&D in the GDR.” Business History 65, no. 7 (October 3, 2023): 1177–93. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1848489.
Eszter Bartha’s “Workers against Technocrats: The Failed Economic Reform and the Rise of Consumer Socialism in the German Democratic Republic” challenges and extends the theories of Haraszti and Kopstein by arguing that the Socialist Unity Party (SED) in the workers' state had to make significant concessions to the workers, who held more power than traditionally assumed. Read Business History 65, no. 7 (October 3, 2023): 1194–1208. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2157403.
Focusing on the case of Energoinvest, Anna Calori’s “Losing the Global: (Re)Building a Bosnian Enterprise across Transition” contributes to our knowledge of the history of global socialism, socialist globalization, and the history of Eastern European enterprises. Business History 65, no. 7 (October 3, 2023): 1226–41. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1819242.
Gareth Dale and Vladimir Unkovski-Korica, in “Varieties of Capitalism or Variegated State Capitalism? East Germany and Yugoslavia in Comparative Perspective,” offer an in-depth discussion regarding both comparative capitalism theories. Business History 65, no. 7 (October 3, 2023): 1242–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2134348.
Max Trecker, in “Entrepreneurs as Saviours of Socialism? The Complicated Relationship between East German State Socialism and Entrepreneurship” explores private entrepreneurship in planned economies before the 1980s. Business History 65, no. 7 (October 3, 2023): 1209–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1781818.
Pieter Troch’s “Tensions between Plan and Market in a Political Factory in Socialist Kosovo” focuses on the case of a medium-sized wood processing enterprise to study the organization and management of labor under socialism. Business History 65, no. 7 (October 3, 2023): 1158–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1733981.
Introduction to Special Issue Socialist Entrepreneurs? Business Histories of the GDR and Yugoslavia. Vladimir Unkovski-Korica and Saša Vejzagić “Business History Goes East: An Introduction.” Business History 65, no. 7 (October 3, 2023): 1119–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2234827.
Saša Vejzagić, “Persistent Centralisation of Decision-Making in the Age of Industrial Atomisation and Self-Management on the Case of Construction Company Industrogradnja Zagreb (1966–1980),” unfolds the history of how diverse managerial practices were introduced in the housing industry company Industrogradnja. Business History 65, no. 7 (October 3, 2023): 1137–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2185225.