The transformation of East-Central Europe deepens the debate about firm creation in a unique way: how do approaches to institutional creation impact the creation of firms? This paper theoretically and empirically explores this question by offering an alternative, embedded politics approach to...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: The Embedded Politics of Institutional Change in Postcommunism -- 2. Institutional Experiments and the Emergence of Industrial Networks in Communist Czechoslovakia -- 3. State Designs for Defining...