Multinational Strategies and Sustainable Industrial Transformation in CEE Transition Economies: the Role of Technology

Abstract

The material presented in this chapter closely reflects the two dominant concerns of the wider research project from which it derives. The first of these broad concerns is to analyse the content and policy implications of the dynamic interface between the evolutionary processes within MNEs and the industrial transformation and developmental needs of particular Central and Eastern European (CEE) transition economies.¹ The second is then to understand the key position of technology within both of these processes, and therefore to elaborate its vital influence in determining the effectiveness and implications of their potentially mutually supportive evolution.