What Kinds of Capitalism after Transition?
Call for Papers
PDF version: http://jan.drahokoupil.googlepages.com/paisleyworkshop.pdf
Paisley Business School is organising a conference on the above theme
On Friday and Saturday, 29 February and 1 March 2008
This is part of a research project, as outlined below, comparing paths
of political-economic development in Central and Eastern Europe,
South-Eastern Europe, and countries that were once part of the Soviet
Union. Contributions are invited on the thematic areas outlined below.
Paper Submission
Abstracts, papers, and/or session proposals should be submitted to
Martin Myant as attached files (doc or pdf format) to the following
e-mail address:
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Submission deadline: the deadline for submissions will be 7 January
2007. A final decision on the programme will be delivered within
about two weeks after that date. We hope to be able to publish, in
some form, contributions to the conference. We are also hoping to be
able to provide some financial support, particularly for those coming
from further afield. This will be dependent on providing a written
version of the paper in advance of the conference which can be a basis
for subsequent publication.
What kinds of capitalism after transition? Divergent paths of
political-economic development in Central and Eastern Europe,
South-Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union
This workshop is a part of a project comparing varieties of capitalist
development in Central and Eastern Europe, South-Eastern Europe,
countries that were once part of the Soviet Union, and possibly also
China.
The project aims to compare patterns of convergence and divergence in
political-economic developments in these countries. A central theme
will be whether there are common features across all countries or
identifiable groups of countries that have undergone a transformation
from state socialism. This workshop focuses on the questions of how
politics and the state influence business and how business influences
and relates to politics and the state.
We welcome contributions around the following questions:
1. Alternative frameworks for analysing 'transition'
Is there a theory of 'transition' that can encompass the similarities
and differences between post-socialist countries? What contributions
can be made from diverse approaches, such as neo-classical economics,
the varieties of capitalism paradigm, regulation theory, Marxist
interpretations and others?
2. Structures of capitalist business and its political and
institutional foundations
What are the dominant patterns of ownership transformation, structures
of corporate governance, and modes of inter-firm coordination? What is
the transformatory role of foreign investment, if any? What are the
emerging, and changing, structures of business and business elites?
3. Interest representation and its implication for emerging forms of capitalism
What are the links between the business groups and the state? What are
the patterns of collective bargaining? What is the influence of trade
unions and how does this relate to labour markets structures?
4. The economic role of the state
What are the emerging forms of state economic intervention and the
roles of tax and spending policies in economic and social development?
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