Informal ties to political elites and path dependency in the Croatian agro sector: a study of the corruption scandals of Agrokombinat and Agrokor

IF 0.8 4区管理学 Q1 HISTORY

Management & Organizational History Pub Date : 2023-03-14 DOI:10.1080/17449359.2023.2187420

B. Frey, M. Lecić

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This research is a case study that explores and compares two Croatian corruption scandals, the Agrokombinat scandal from the 1970s, and the Agrokor scandal from the 2010s. These two companies are linked to one another: Agrokombinat served as a model for Agrokor, and the main protagonists of the two scandals, the two top managers of the companies, were father and son. The research aims to answer the following: what differences and similarities can be observed in the alleged abuses committed by the two managers and in their relations to the political elites? Can we identify patterns of path dependence on the example of two related companies? We aim to answer these questions by analyzing both archival sources of internal Communist Party documents, from the Croatian State Archive, and the public corruption narrativizations of the scandals from the media. More generally, we also aim to show the importance of learning the lessons from (business) history when operating in societies afflicted by political instability and informal practices.

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克罗地亚农业部门与政治精英的非正式联系和路径依赖:Agrokombinat和Agrokor腐败丑闻研究

本研究是一个案例研究，探讨和比较克罗地亚的两起腐败丑闻，即20世纪70年代的Agrokombinat丑闻和2010年代的Agrokor丑闻。这两家公司彼此联系在一起:Agrokombinat是Agrokor的典范，而这两起丑闻的主角，两家公司的两位高层管理人员，是父子。本研究旨在回答以下问题:在这两位管理者涉嫌滥用职权以及他们与政治精英的关系中，可以观察到哪些异同?我们能否从两个相关公司的例子中找出路径依赖的模式?我们的目标是通过分析来自克罗地亚国家档案馆的共产党内部文件的档案来源，以及媒体对丑闻的公共腐败叙述，来回答这些问题。更一般地说，我们还旨在表明，在受政治不稳定和非正式做法困扰的社会中经营时，从(商业)历史中吸取教训的重要性。

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