From Communists to Foreign Capitalists: The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investments in Postsocialist Europe

摘要

Nina Bandelj's first book is powerful and persuasive. Its strength comes from the author's personal involvement with the subject matter. Currently an assistant professor at the University of California at Irvine, Bandelj grew up in Slovenia; postsocialist transformation is her family history. It is not by chance that the book opens with a short interview, in which Bandelj's father describes the changes that his workplace underwent after 1989: "The firms had to turn around 180 degrees.