ELENA IANKOVA

Ph.D., Cornell University
M.S., Cornell University
BA/MA, Diploma in Sociology, Sofia University

Most Significant Publications

Iankova, Elena A. Eastern European Capitalism in the Making (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002) http://books.cambridge.org/052181314X.htm

The Business-Government Relationship in EU-Acceding Countries: Institutional Change and Adaptation (book manuscript);

Elena A. Iankova. “Europeanization of Social Partnership in EU-Acceding Countries.” Journal for East European Management Studies (forthcoming 2007)

Elena A. Iankova. “From Corporate Paternalism to Corporate Social Responsibility in Post-Communist Europe.” Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Issue 29, Spring 2008 (forthcoming)

Elena A. Iankova. “Social Dialogue in an Enlarging European Union.” WSI-Mitteilungen, Vol. 59, No. 10 (October 2006). Special issue on "Europa zwischen Markt und Sozialstaat: Die Bedeutung der EU fur ArbeitnehmerInnen in Europa" ("Europe BetweenMarket Regulation and Welfare State") (in German)

Elena Iankova and Lowell Turner. “Building the New Europe: Western and Eastern Roads to Social Partnership,” Industrial Relations Journal, Vol. 35, No. 1 (January 2004), pp. 76-92

Elena A. Iankova and Snejina Michailova. “The Political Networking Challenge to Business Leadership in Bulgaria.” Journal for East European Management Studies, Vol. 8, No. 4 (December 2003), pp. 397-414

Elena A. Iankova and Peter J. Katzenstein. “European Enlargement and Institutional Hypocrisy.” In Rachel Cichowski and Tanja Boerzel, eds., State of the European Union Volume 6: Law, Politics and Society (Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 269-290

Elena Iankova and Jan Katz. “Strategies for Political Risk Mediation by International Firms in Transition Economies: the Case of Bulgaria,” Journal of World Business, Vol. 38, No. 3 (2003), pp. 182-203

Elena A. Iankova. “Transformation, Accession to the European Union and Institutional Design: The Fate of Tripartism.” In Ronald Linden, ed., Norms and Nannies: The Impact of European Organizations on Central and Eastern European States (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), pp. 205-226

Elena A. Iankova. “Multi-Level Bargaining in Bulgaria’s Return to Capitalism.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Vol. 54, No. 1 (October 2000), pp. 115-137

Elena A. Iankova. “The Transformative Corporatism of Eastern Europe.” East European Politics and Societies. Vol. 12, No. 2 (Spring 1998), pp. 222-264

Honors and Recognitions

• U.S. Department of Education International Research and Studies Program grant – “New Dimensions of Government, Business, and Civil Society Relations in the Global World” (with Jan Katz and Sarosh Kuruvilla) (2003-2006)

• American Councils for International Education Research Fellowship (July—December 2001)

• International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Short-Term Travel Grant (summer 2001)

• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Short-Term Research Fellowship (Washington D.C., September-October 2000)

• German Marshall Fund Research Fellowship (1999—2000)

• Research grant, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research under authority of a Title VIII grant from the U.S. Department of State (with Peter Katzenstein) (1998—2000)

• U.S. Department of Education International Research and Studies Program grant (with Lowell Turner) (1997—2000)

• Joel Seidman Dissertation Prize, Cornell University (1997)

• Benjamin Miller Fellowship, Cornell University (1995—1996)

• Institute for the Study of World Politics Dissertation Fellowship (Washington D.C., 1994—1995)

• Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship (1992—1994)