LEADER 05081nam 22007095 450 001 9910720088603321 005 20230509082725.0 010 $a3-031-23932-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-23932-8 035 $a(CKB)5720000000183774 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7248767 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7248767 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-23932-8 035 $a(BIP)086484358 035 $a(PPN)270616659 035 $a(EXLCZ)995720000000183774 100 $a20230509d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBusiness Practice in Socialist Hungary, Volume 2 $eFrom Chaos to Contradiction, 1957?1972 /$fby Philip Scranton 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (417 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Debates in Business History,$x2662-4370 311 $a3-031-23931-8 327 $aPreface: The Terrible Twelve: Core Tasks for Socialist and Capitalist Enterprises.-Introduction: Hungary as Site and Process: Geography, History, and Society to 1945 -- Chapter 1: Postwar Reconstruction and Forced Industrialization, 1946-56 -- Chapter 2: Socializing Agriculture, 1957-66 -- Chapter 3: Construction: The Infrastructure Dilemma, 1957-1966 -- Chapter 4: Commerce: Transactions Without and With Markets, 1957-1966 -- Chapter 5: Manufacturing: Concretizing A Great Illusion, 1957-1966 -- Chapter 6: The New Economic Mechanism and Bureaucratic Resistance: 1966-1972 -- Conclusion: Never Quite Socialist? -- A Note on Sources. 330 $aThis book aims to reconstruct the activities of enterprises and individuals in one developing country (Hungary), within and across four politico-economic domains (agriculture, construction, commerce, and manufacturing), from the aftermath of the 1956 revolt through extensive reforms emphasizing profits more than ideology so as to provide abundant consumer goods. It provides hundreds of grounded, granular stories for reflection, as reported by actors and direct observers, ranging from innovation and improvisation to obstruction, failure, and fraud. Further, it offers an otherwise-unobtainable close encounter with another world, familiar in some respects while amazingly peculiar in others. The social history of enterprise and work in postwar Central European nations ?building socialism? has long been underdeveloped. Through extensive macro-level research on planning and policy in Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other Bloc countries, a grand narrative has been framed: reconstruction and breakneck industrialization under Soviet tutelage; then eventual mismanagement, stagnation and crisis, leading to collapse. This successor volume to an earlier study of the 1945?57 period seeks to explore what socialism actually looked like to those sustaining (or enduring} it as they faced forward into an unknowable future, to assess how and where it did (or didn?t) work, and to recount how ordinary people responded to its opportunities and constraints. This study will appeal to readers interested in a understanding how businesses worked day-to-day in a planned economy, how enterprise practices and technological strategies shifted during the first postwar generation, how managers and technicians learned by doing, how peasants began to farm cooperatively, how organizations improvised and adapted, how political purity and practical expertise contended for control, and how controversies and contradiction shaped a deeply flawed project to ?build socialism.? Philip Scranton is University Board of Governors Professor Emeritus, History of Industry and Technology, at Rutgers University, USA.. His publications include nineteen books and 80+ scholarly articles, multiple contributions to exhibition catalogs, and numerous reviews of books and conferences. 410 0$aPalgrave Debates in Business History,$x2662-4370 606 $aManagement 606 $aTechnological innovations 606 $aCorporations 606 $aEconomic history 606 $aEntrepreneurship 606 $aNew business enterprises 606 $aManagement 606 $aInnovation and Technology Management 606 $aCorporate History 606 $aEntrepreneurship 610 $aEconomic History 610 $aBusiness & Economics 615 0$aManagement. 615 0$aTechnological innovations. 615 0$aCorporations. 615 0$aEconomic history. 615 0$aEntrepreneurship. 615 0$aNew business enterprises. 615 14$aManagement. 615 24$aInnovation and Technology Management. 615 24$aCorporate History. 615 24$aEntrepreneurship. 676 $a658 700 $aScranton$b Philip$0931728 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910720088603321 996 $aBusiness Practice in Socialist Hungary, Volume 2$93389010 997 $aUNINA