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Organization Community Embeddedness: The Social Impact of Enterprise Restructuring in the Post-Communist Czech Republic

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The aim of this paper is to examine the impactof the enterprise restructuring process, which hastypified the experience of post-communist industry, onlocal communities. It is argued that restructuring has had differential impacts on communities,and one key factor in making this judgment is the natureof the enterprise community relationship inherited fromthe former state socialist regime. Conceptually, this relationship can be understood in terms ofthe social and institutional embeddedness of theenterprise in its local community. The paper draws uponresearch into three large former state enterprises in the now Czech Republic in order to examinethe effects of different degrees of embeddedness on theimpact of restructuring decisions to reduce enterpriseoverstaffing, and to unburden the enterprise of its social and welfare assets andactivities.

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Clark, E., Soulsby, A. Organization Community Embeddedness: The Social Impact of Enterprise Restructuring in the Post-Communist Czech Republic. Human Relations 51, 25–50 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016949832681

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