Hidden drivers of organisational transformation in Poland: Survival networks amongst state owned and privatised firms in the early 1990s

摘要

Three historical case studies from Polish manufacturing industry are used to evaluate the rise of survival networks in Poland during the early 1990s. The article poses the question of whether survival networks represented a hidden driver of organisational transformation and change in post-Communist Poland? In transition economies such as Poland, survival networks appeared to be governed by interwoven ex-communist elites' and entrepreneurs, of which nomenklatura managers were the dominant group. The paper argues that survival networks may have provided the organisational architecture needed to reinforce elite governance of industry and commerce.