LEADER 04236nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910813003103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-29099-5 010 $a9786613290991 010 $a1-4008-4125-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400841257 035 $a(CKB)2550000000050038 035 $a(EBL)784527 035 $a(OCoLC)757261060 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000536884 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11336366 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000536884 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10551666 035 $a(PQKB)10849265 035 $a(OCoLC)769187867 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37022 035 $a(DE-B1597)447592 035 $a(OCoLC)1054880925 035 $a(OCoLC)979968555 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400841257 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL784527 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10503241 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL329099 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC784527 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000050038 100 $a20070508d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrom Communists to foreign capitalists $ethe social foundations of foreign direct investment in postsocialist Europe /$fNina Bandelj 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (324 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12912-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-289) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tList of Tables -- $tList of Figures -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPrologue -- $tCHAPTER 1. Social Foundations of the Economy -- $tCHAPTER 2. From Socialism to Postsocialism -- $tCHAPTER 3. Institutionalization of FDI in Postsocialism -- $tCHAPTER 4. Cross-Country Patterns in FDI Flows -- $tCHAPTER 5. Embeddedness of Organizational FDI Attempts -- $tCHAPTER 6. Uncertainty and the Practice of FDI Transactions -- $tCHAPTER 7. Embedded Economies -- $tEpilogue -- $tAppendix on Method and Data Sources -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aFrom Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the economic change that accompanied these shifts in central and Eastern Europe, Nina Bandelj presents a pioneering sociological treatment of the process of foreign direct investment (FDI). She demonstrates how both investors and hosts rely on social networks, institutions, politics, and cultural understandings to make decisions about investment, employing practical rather than rational economic strategies to deal with the true uncertainty that plagues the postsocialist environment. The book explores how eleven postsocialist countries address the very idea of FDI as an integral part of their market transition. The inflows of foreign capital after the collapse of Communism resulted not from the withdrawal of states from the economy, as is commonly expected, but rather from the active involvement of postsocialist states in institutionalizing and legitimizing FDI. Using a wide array of data sources, and combining a macro-level account of national variation in the liberalization to foreign capital with a micro-level account of FDI transactions in the decade following the collapse of Communism in 1989, the book reveals how social forces not only constrain economic transformations but also make them possible. From Communists to Foreign Capitalists is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the social processes that shape economic life. 606 $aInvestments, Foreign$zEurope, Eastern 606 $aInvestments, Foreign$zEurope, Central 606 $aPost-communism$xSocial aspects 615 0$aInvestments, Foreign 615 0$aInvestments, Foreign 615 0$aPost-communism$xSocial aspects. 676 $a332.67/30947 686 $a83.25$2bcl 700 $aBandelj$b Nina$01643104 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813003103321 996 $aFrom Communists to foreign capitalists$94088656 997 $aUNINA