Social(ist) Responsibility and Communist Management in Postwar Central Europe

Philip Scranton ()
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Philip Scranton: Rutgers University

Chapter Chapter 11 in A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950, 2017, pp 271-295 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In a socialist economy, enterprises were designed to be deeply socially responsible, far more so than under capitalismCapitalism , because the public owned all firms, the people’s tribunes (the Communist PartyCommunist Party apparatus) supervised them, and their managers operated outside any nexus of markets for capital, materials, and clients.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60146-5_11

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