The enterprise manager and the head of the factory party committee, both fortyish, received me side by side, ostensibly as equals.

Profitability and efficiency, however, were generally not the most prominent priorities for Soviet enterprise managers.

With the introduction of the dual price system and greater autonomy for enterprise managers, productivity increased greatly in the early 1980s.

Implementation began at this point, and was largely the responsibility of enterprise managers.

More particularly, the plan is intended to turn enterprise managers, who have the right to buy more shares than ordinary people, into capitalists.

Also, most enterprise managers were more concerned with meeting production quotas than with technological innovations.

This approach intended to streamline economic units and make enterprise managers more responsible for performance.

And by concentrating ownership among a few mutual funds, the plan would guarantee tight supervision over enterprise managers.

What ambitious politician or enterprise manager, sobered by the example of Poland's hard road to capitalism, would bet his future on radical change?

Such a disparity might call into question the validity of the information previously furnished to the planners by the enterprise managers.