Change Management in Transition Economies: Integrating Corporate Strategy, Structure and Culture

Witold Ma‚achowski

Abstract

Poland and Germany are two important but very different economic players in the centre of the European continent . This chapter examines how relations between these countries have developed since the political changes at the end of the 1980s, and concludes that Polish “German economic relations intensified during the 1990s. The chapter also takes a detailed look at the development of mutual trade relations in various major economic sectors and of German direct investment in Poland.