Introduction - post-socialism, the negotiated economy and other Western models, Jarry Hausner et al. Part 1 Theoretical perspectives: structural competitives and strategic capacities - rethinking state and international capital, Bob Jessop et al; institutional theory and the influence of foreign actors on reform in capitalist and post-socialist societies, John Campbell; catching up and institutional learning under post-socialism, Bjorn Johnson and Bengt-Ake Lundvall. Part 2 Scandinavian perspectives - the negotiated economy: the negotiated economy - general features and theoreticl perspectives, Klaus Nielsen and Ove K. Pedersen; natural resource-based industries - big business and the role of the state - the case of Norway's oil and gas, Ole Beerfjord and Per Heum; towards a new Swedish model, Victor A. Pestoff; the institutional history of the Danish polity - from a market and mixed to a negotiated economy, Ove K. Pedersen; private industrial policy in the Danish negotiated economy, Niels Akerstrom Andersen and Peter Kjaer. Part 3 Post-socialist perspectives - the Polish case: trends and perspectives in the development of a system of interest representation in post-socialist societies, Jerzy Hausner and Andrzej Wojtyna; out of corporatism towards neo-corporatism, Jaroslaw Gorniak and Jan Jerschina; social limitations for efficient allocations of resources in the post-socialist countries, Jan Czekaj and Stanislaw Owsiak; impact of political changes in processes occurring in an enterprise, Stanislaw Rudolf; prospects for employee ownership in the process of privatizing the Polish economy, Julian Pankow; the drifting society, Jerzy Mikulowski Pomorski.
