This paper reviews how young people's education-to-work transitions have changed since
1989 in former communist countries that have subsequently become full members of the …

This paper aims to demonstrate the analytical potential of initial vocational education and
training (iVET) in the debate on the costs of social mobility. It is based on extensive …

This article addresses the implementation of lean production techniques in the Romanian
subsidiary of a second-tier automotive supplier. Given the liberal institutional environment of …

It is more than three decades since the publication of Finegold and Soskice's (1988)
influential article 'The failure of training in Britain: Analysis and prescription'. This widely …

ABSTRACT Is the European Union a technocracy? Observers and practitioners of EU
politics have debated this deceptively simple question for decades, without arriving at a …

Europe and Asia find themselves increasingly connected. Why then do we find limited
knowledge mobility in the study of Europe throughout Asia? What factors drive this …

The article presents a review of the most important approaches towards the notion of
economic dependency–starting from its roots in the history of economic thought which is the …

This book explains the conditions under which political parties in government were able to
influence economic growth in post-communist European countries. It highlights higher …

The theory of organizational learning seems to be practical when researchers can find
connections between two or more variables that can be justified and implemented. The term …

Europe's family of diverse education-to-work transition regimes has been able to enlarge
eastwards without adding to the range of variation. Former communist states have been able …