Foreign Direct Investments and Trade Unions in the Post-Communist Countries

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arpad A. Todor
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
Communist Countries

scholarly journals Foreign direct investments in Czechia

Geografie ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-197
Author(s):  
Pavla Žížalová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Regional Distribution ◽  
Regional Disparities ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
Fdi Inflows ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Communist Countries

Foreign direct investments (FDI) are an often discussed phenomenon which is considered to play a key role in the process of transformation and restructuralization in the post-communist countries. This paper examines its regional distribution and challenges rather uncritical views on this phenomenon. FDI are distributed geographically very unevenly as almost three fifths of total FDI inflows into the Czech Republic have been located in Prague and almost four fifths in the metropolitan areas. Thus, FDI are one of the factors, which intensify uneven development and contribute to regional disparities.

scholarly journals The Attitudinal Legacy of Communist Labor Relations

ILR Review ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 438-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Blanchflower ◽  
Richard B. Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Communist Labor ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Earnings Differentials ◽  
International Social Survey Programme ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
International Social

This study of workers' attitudes compares data from International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) surveys for former communist countries in Europe with ISSP data for Western countries over the period 1987–93, which covers the beginning of the transition to a market economy for the former communist countries. Consistent with their hypothesis that communist-run economies left an attitudinal “legacy,” the authors find that the citizens of former communist countries evinced a greater desire for egalitarianism, less satisfaction with their Jobs, and more support for strong trade unions and state intervention in the Job market and economy than did Westerners. Over the course of the period studied, however, residents of the former communist European countries perceived sizable increases in occupational earnings differentials, and they adjusted their views of the differentials that “ought to#x201D; exist in their economies in the direction of greater inequality.

scholarly journals Workers' resistance in special economic zones in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-207
Author(s):  
Maciej Bancarzewski ◽  
Jane Hardy
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
Special Economic Zones ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Non Union ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Workplace Resistance ◽  
Economic Zones

PurposeThis article compares workers' resistance in foreign direct investments (FDIs) in the automotive and electronics sectors in two special economic zones (SEZs) in the north-east and south-west of Poland. It aims to investigate why, despite the shared characteristics of the SEZs, that there are different outcomes in terms of the balance of formal resistance through trade unions and informal resistance through sabotage.Design/methodology/approachA spatial framework of analysis is posited to examine how global capital, national employment frameworks and regional institutions play out in local labour markets and shape workers' sense of place and their capacity for workplace resistance. The research study is based on interviews with trade union officials and non-union employees in four foreign investment firms in Poland.FindingsThe findings point to the importance of the type of production in influencing the structural power of organised labour and the social agency workers influenced by their understanding of place.Originality/valueAnalysing workplace resistance and industrial relations from a spatial perspective.

scholarly journals Foreign direct investment in the post-communist member states of the European Union: who are the leaders?

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Grażyna Kozuń-Cieślak ◽  
Ewa Markowska-Bzducha
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
European Union ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
The Right ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
European Union Member States

Joining the European Union has been treated as a chance for Poland and other post-communist countries to improve their economic growth and development. It was clear from the beginning that it was going to be a long and demanding process in which success is only possible if appropriate economic policies are pursued. That policy should provide stable frameworks to support business development, attract foreign direct investments (FDI), keep the discipline in public finances and assure the right institutional ability and managerial skills to absorb the EU funds. According to forecasts by The McKinsey Quarterly from 2004, 5% Poland's economic growth rate was to require around USD 10 billion of annual FDI inflow! The aim of this study was identifying the leaders in attracting FDI among post-communist European Union member states in the period of 2004-2020. The research showed a huge variation in attracting foreign capital among eleven post-communist EU members. Estonia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia seem to be winners in this race, leaving Poland far behind.

Foreign Direct Investments: The Indirect Way to Economy

2007 ◽  
pp. 63-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Navoi
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Methodological Aspects

The article analyzes the situation with attraction of foreign direct investments (FDI) into the Russian Federation. Sharply increased inflow of international financial resources into national economy has highlighted the problem of definitions, the reasons of this phenomenon and its economic contents. The article considers methodological aspects and economic essence of modern FDI. Special accent is made on the estimation of the situation with their attraction into Russia, FDI structure and effectiveness. The conclusions about basic directions of the increase of their effectiveness in the Russian economy are formulated.

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