VINCENT EDWARDS is Professor of East European Management and Culture and Head of Research at Buckinghamshire Business School, Buckingham Chilterns University College, England. He has taught and conducted field research in East Germany, Hungary, Slovenia and Russia and is co-author of Management Change in East Germany and Hungary Since Communism: The Transformation of Business. He is a founder member of the Centre for Research into East European Business. GENNADY POLONSKY is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Buckinghamshire Business School, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College. His research interests include problems of countries in transition, especially the interplay between social, political and economic factors. He is a founder member of the Centre for Research into East European Business. AVGUST POLONSKY is Professor of Sociology at Volgograd State Academy of Architecture. He is author of more than 60 publications on the problems of social adaptation of work groups to change. His major books (in Russian) include, Socio-Economic Problems of Labour Collectives and Entrepreneurial Systems of Management.