01580pab a2200169 454500 180718b2004 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d McDermott, Gerald A. Institutional change and firm creation in east-central Europe: an embedded politics approach 2004 p.188-217. Mar A central debate about the transformation of postcommunist countries is how political approaches to institution building affect firm restructuring and creation. This debate has largely been dominated by theories that emphasize either the depoliticization of institutional designs or the determining impact of preexisting social structures. By examining the relative economic performance of Poland and the Czech Republic in the 1990s, this article offers an alternative, embedded politics analysis that views firm and institutional creation as interwined experiments. Czech attempts to implant a depoliticized model of reform impended institutional development and the reorganization of sociopolitical networks, in which firms are embedded. Poland facilitated institutional experiments not only in the ways it promoted negotiated solutions to restructuring but also in the ways it empowered subnational governments. The study utilizes data on manufacturing networks, privatization, bankruptcy, and regional government reforms collected between 1993 and 2000. - Reproduced. East Central Europe - Politics and government Politics and government Comparative Political Studies 60738 60738 60738 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 37, Issue no: 2 AR61184 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR