Critical Management Research in Eastern Europe

MIHAELA KELEMEN is Lecturer in Management and Organization Studies at Keele University, UK. She has published articles in the Journal of Management Studies, Organization, Human Relations, British Journal of Management and Scandinavian Journal of Management. MONIKA KOSTERA is Professor in Management and Organization Theory at the Academy of Management and Entrepreneurship, Warsaw University. She has published over twenty articles in refereed journals and is a member of editorial boards of several journals, namely Human Resource Development International, Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies, and Management Learning.

• 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