ABSTRACT
Rapid and discontinuous change processes are considered to be the primary characteristics of the catastrophe and chaos models of mathematics. Those features, exemplified by unstable political alignments, on-again, off-again privatization programs, civil war in the former Yugoslavia, massive inflation, institutional collapse, and all the other attendant consequences of change in Central and Eastern Europe, are the norm. The lack of adequately tailoring programs to the needs and understanding of the audiences was compounded by the practice of many universities to assign faculty to a training program for only a short time. Electronic exchange, electronic publication, and the development of more specialized publication outlets tailored to the changes in Central and Eastern Europe. The gulf between the understanding of a “market” on the part of the people of Central and Eastern Europe and the Westerners who came to do business training was enormous.
