This paper uses a survey of 3,300 firms in 25 transition countries to shed light on the factors that influence restructuring by firms and their subsequent performance as measured by growth in sales and in sales per employee over a three-year period. We begin by surveying what a decade of...

Using a firm level dataset from four regions of Russia covering 1996/97, an investigation was carried out into how the surplus created within the firm is divided between profits and wages. An efficient bargaining framework based on the work of Svejnar (1986) is employed which takes into account...

Das vorliegende Buch beschäftigt sich mit einem wichtigen Teil des Transformationsprozesses, nämlich der Rolle und Organisation des Unternehmenssektors. Zugrunde liegt eine großangelegte Untersuchung der Weltbank, die mehr als 400 Firmen befragte.