State Corporate Control in Transition: Poland in a Comparative Perspective

The book explores the changing role of state-owned enterprises in economic policy in post-communist transition countries, focusing on the Polish experience in a comparative perspective. It fills an important gap in the literature and is valuable for academics, policy makers, and practitioners.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 360 pages
Publication date: 20 October 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Since the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, there has been a growing interest among policymakers towards the more active role of the state in the enterprise sector. This book provides valuable insight into the changing role of state-owned enterprises in economic policy, a topic at the cross-section of several interrelated but usually independent research streams, including transition research, varieties of capitalism literature, public choice approach, and institutionalism studies. With the existing literature on state ownership concentrating on the developed economies and on selected emerging economies, this book fills an important gap by focusing on the post-communist transition countries. The Polish experience is looked at in a comparative perspective of selected transition countries, which deserve special attention as they had to cope with a radical change of their economic policies towards the enterprise sector. This book will be valuable reading for academics in economic policy, transition economics, and institutional economics, as well as policy makers and practitioners in EU bodies and emerging economies.

Weight: 491g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030785642
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021