Tensions between plan and market in a political factory in socialist Kosovo Ghent University
This article provides a business history of the medium-sized wood processing enterprise Kosmet Sper, established for local development purposes in weakly-developed socialist Kosovo. It explores business reorganisations undertaken by local political elites and management aimed to align the enterprise's continued operation with socialist Yugoslavia's market-oriented economic reforms of the 1960s. The first part of the article scrutinises these ...