The Myth of Restructuring, ‘Competent’ Managers and the Transition to a Market Economy: a Romanian Tale
研究了罗马尼亚企业在从社会主义向市场经济转型过程中，重组行为多大程度上是迎合流行说辞而非基于经济理性，发现管理者认为社会主义时期的管理技能仍适用于自由市场，因此不认为管理重组是必要的。
A great deal of rhetoric surrounds the transformation from socialism to free‐market capitalism. This paper explores to what extent the restructuring of Romanian companies has been an attempt to pay lip‐service to prevailing rhetoric and to what extent it has been premised upon economic rationality. To restructure along structural, technological, financial but primarily managerial fronts has become a cultural value which is applauded, praised and heralded as the only way forward by the Romanian institutions of the transition. The companies under the study subscribe to such rhetoric only when they regard it as being embedded in economic rationality, as is the case with structural, financial and technological restructuring. Managerial restructuring, on the other hand, is not regarded as a technical necessity, given the view held by existing senior managers that skills and qualities acquired in the socialist regime are still appropriate to run a business successfully in the free‐market economy.