A Nonaligned Business World: The Global Socialist Enterprise between Self-Management and Transnational Capitalism

• Published in: Nationalities papers Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 413 - 427
• Main Authors: Spaskovska, Ljubica, Calori, Anna
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.05.2021
• Subjects: Capitalism; Cold War; Companies; Cooperation; Corporate culture; Developing countries; Dissolution; Economic development; Economic models; Economic reform; Economics; Embeddedness; Engineering; Equality; Exports; Global economy; Globalization; Industrial development; International division of labor; International trade; LDCs; Money; Negotiation; Public enterprise; Selfmanagement; Social mobility; Socialism; Special Issue Article; Transnationalism; Welfare; Workforce; Yugoslavia; Iraq; Slovenia; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics > USSR; Croatia; public enterprise; Yugoslavia; Cold War; non-alignment; self-management; United Nations

This article explores the role of Yugoslav self-managed corporations in the global economy, with a particular attention to the late socialist period (1976–1991). Guided by a vision of a long-term integration of the Yugoslav economy into the international division of labor on the basis of equality an...