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Geographic Space, Banking Knowledge, and Transformation

In: Critical Management Research in Eastern Europe

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  • Herbert Kalthoff

    (European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder))

Abstract

This chapter is intended as a contribution to the analysis of those decision-making processes within the banking industry that lead to the structuring of operative units. The chapter’s subject matters are ‘feasibility studies’ on the economic potential of the geographic space (‘countries’ and ‘regions’) in which banks plan the structuring of their geographic presence. In the case at hand, this will be exemplified by the situation of international commercial banks in Central and Eastern European countries, the so-called transformation countries.1 The empirical material for this study was gathered via participant observation in two international banks in Poland and Bulgaria over several months. Further I conducted interviews with senior staff and employees responsible for Central Europe in bank headquarters in Frankfurt on Main and Munich and in subsidiaries and/or branch offices in Warsaw, Prague, and Sofia. Added to these were interviews with the corporate banking department and risk management staff in the headquarters of a French commercial bank in Paris.2

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  • Herbert Kalthoff, 2002. "Geographic Space, Banking Knowledge, and Transformation," Studies in Economic Transition, in: Mihaela Kelemen & Monika Kostera (ed.), Critical Management Research in Eastern Europe, chapter 2, pages 13-37, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:stuchp:978-1-4039-1436-1_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403914361_2
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