This paper analyzes the performance of the Central and Eastern Europe airline industry through the lens of the “Permanently Failing Organization†(PFO) framework. Based on elite interviews from management in the three airlines but also from other organizations within the industry, it...

The authors are attempting to draw together existing literature on the governance of GVCs; research on host country "spillovers" as a consequence of MNE activity and the broader cluster and innovation literature. While cluster research had done important work in identifying and operationalizing...

This paper examines the development of EU regulations in the car distribution sector. In the span of approximately fifteen years, the sector has shifted from being regarded by its critics as being one of the most protected havens of European industry to one faced with open competition. The paper...

Central and East European (CEE) countries are in an economic transition process that involves convergence of their economic performance with the European Union. One of the principal engines for the necessary transformation toward EU average economic performance is inward foreign direct...

This paper examines foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Hungarian economy in the period of post-Communist transition since 1989. Hungary took a quite aggressive approach in welcoming foreign investment during this period and as a result had the highest per capita FDI in the region as of 2001....