%0 Book

%T From communists to foreign capitalists the social foundations of foreign direct investment in postsocialist Europe

%A Bandelj, Nina

%I Princeton University Press

%@ 0691129126

%@ 9780691129129

%K Auslandsinvestition

%K Institutioneller Wandel

%K Soziales Netzwerk

%K Sozialer Wandel

%K Systemtransformation

%K Osteuropa

%K Investments, Foreign Europe, Eastern

%K Investments, Foreign Europe, Central

%K Post-communism Social aspects

%K Postkommunismus

%D 2008

%X Includes bibliographical references and index

%X Social foundations of economy -- The argument -- 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 postsocialist transformation: shock-therapy vs. 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 a focus on 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

%C Princeton University Press

%C Princeton, N.J [u.a.]

%U http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2