Is corporate control in Russia and Poland shaped by the initial privatisation methods? What is the impact of the government? What is the role played by industrial networks and cross-ownership? By the banks and the capital markets? What are the factors behind some spectacular corporate failures? And how is our understanding enhanced by the resource based-, strategy- and political economy- perspectives, which complement the economic approach? Addressing these questions, this book draws conclusions, which in their comparative aspects reach beyond these two major transition economies.