Description
The article discusses the difficulties that westerners face when trying to do business in Central and Eastern Europe. The article identifies a number of factors that make doing business in the region difficult, including an anti-business attitude. The article offers solutions for overcoming these difficulties.
What is it like to live and work in Central Europe or Eastern Europe? How is business conducted? What are the important social and cultural issues to be mastered by westerners? What happened in Central and Eastern Europe to make the integration into the rest of Europe so difficult? This work seeks to answer these and many other questions The authors identify a number of factors, including an anti-business attitude, that retard business development within the Central and Eastern European region. They aim to create a frame of reference for understanding the post-Soviet syndrome . They offer solutions for overcoming these and other problems inherent in doing business in the area.