COMMON LEGACIES - DIVERGENT CONTRACTUAL RELATIONS:Inter-firm Co-operation in transition in Ukraine and Estonia

The economic success of Japan in the post-war period and various new forms of market co-ordination in European regions, and specificities of inter-firm relationships in high technology industries have increased academic and business interest in the ways that firms manage relationships between themselves. Variations in inter-firm relations between market economies are often seen as being closely related to differences between societal institutions, such as the state, legal system, financial system and to some extent labour organisation....