Abstract:

The emergence of the project of integrated research in the socialist countries is closely linked to multilateral cooperation between the CMEA countries, and to the urgent need to improve the management control and planning activities of the bearers of external economic relations in those countries. Essentially, integrated research is an analogy of Western multi-country research, but its practical shape and theoretical justification are the result of the specific socio-economic climate conducive to its application in the socialist countries. The author describes both the obstacles and the stimuli to the application of integrated research, without analysing any of them in detail.