Through the prism of 'Nowa Huta', a landmark of socialist industrialization, Trappmann challenges the one-sided account of Poland as a successful transition case and reveals the ambivalent role of the European Union in economic restructuring. An exemplary, suggestive case of multi-level analysis...

The introduction to the Special Issue on economic elites in Central Eastern Europe establishes a common understanding of elite research and the development of capitalism in Central Eastern Europe as developed during the 1990s. Since then, the composition of elites has been lost sight of by...

1. Introduction : business leaders and the new varieties of capitalism in post-communist Europe / Katharina Bluhm, Bernd Martens and Vera Trappmann -- 2. Institutional transformation and business leaders of the new foreign-led capitalism in Poland / Krzysztof Jasiecki -- 3. The 'small...