Includes index.

Contents: Cultural impact of the post-Perestroika period on Russian economic reforms -- Polish traditions and perspectives of post-socialist reforms -- Reforms in Czechoslovakia: Traditions or comopolitanism -- Crimes of the functionaries: Bribery, extortion and favouritisim -- The Long road from serfdom and how to shorten it -- From socialism to capitalism: The effects of Hungarian human resources practices -- Person-based reward systems: Reward practices in reform-communist organization -- Survival, adaptive and and maladaptive strategies, and pitsfalls in management transfer: Lessons from other parts of the world and their use in management reform in Central and Eastern Europe.