Business in Post-Communist Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Business in Post-Communist Russia write by Mikhail Glazunov. This book was released on 2013-12-04. Business in Post-Communist Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is a widely held idea that Russia has completed its revolution which brought down the Soviet economy, and that many companies after privatisation work as typical western companies. Another belief is that Russia has adopted a market economy but then reverted to authoritarianism. With these two ideas in mind, this book discusses the suggestion that the key element of post-Soviet economic and political reforms in the last two decades was the redistribution of assets from the state to oligarchs and the new elite. It looks at why most Russian companies could not achieve strong long–run corporate performance by analysing in detail a range of different Russian companies. The book is a useful tool for understanding the future prospects for Russian business.
Building Business in Post-Communist Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia
Building Business in Post-Communist Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building Business in Post-Communist Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia write by Dinissa Duvanova. This book was released on 2013-02-18. Building Business in Post-Communist Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prior to 1989, the communist countries of Eastern Europe and the USSR lacked genuine employer and industry associations. After the collapse of communism, industry associations mushroomed throughout the region. Duvanova argues that abusive regulatory regimes discourage the formation of business associations and poor regulatory enforcement tends to encourage associational membership growth. Academic research often treats special interest groups as vehicles of protectionism and non-productive collusion. This book challenges this perspective with evidence of market-friendly activities by industry associations and their benign influence on patterns of public governance. Careful analysis of cross-national quantitative data spanning more than 25 countries, and qualitative examination of business associations in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Croatia, shows that postcommunist business associations function as substitutes for state and private mechanisms of economic governance. These arguments and empirical findings put the long-standing issues of economic regulations, public goods and collective action in a new theoretical perspective.
Violent Entrepreneurs
Violent Entrepreneurs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Violent Entrepreneurs write by Vadim Volkov. This book was released on 2016-03-25. Violent Entrepreneurs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Entering the shady world of what he calls "violent entrepreneurship," Vadim Volkov explores the economic uses of violence and coercion in Russia in the 1990s. Violence has played, he shows, a crucial role in creating the institutions of a new market economy. The core of his work is competition among so-called violence-managing agencies—criminal groups, private security services, private protection companies, and informal protective agencies associated with the state—which multiplied with the liberal reforms of the early 1990s. This competition provides an unusual window on the dynamics of state formation.Violent Entrepreneurs is remarkable for its research. Volkov conducted numerous interviews with members of criminal groups, heads of protection companies, law enforcement employees, and businesspeople. He bases his findings on journalistic and anecdotal evidence as well as on his own personal observation. Volkov investigates the making of violence-prone groups in sports clubs (particularly martial arts clubs), associations for veterans of the Soviet—Afghan war, ethnic gangs, and regionally based social groups, and he traces the changes in their activities across the decade. Some groups wore state uniforms and others did not, but all of their members spoke and acted essentially the same and were engaged in the same activities: intimidation, protection, information gathering, dispute management, contract enforcement, and taxation. Each group controlled the same resource—organized violence.
Corporate Strategy in Post-Communist Russia
Corporate Strategy in Post-Communist Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Corporate Strategy in Post-Communist Russia write by Mikhail Glazunov. This book was released on 2016-05-12. Corporate Strategy in Post-Communist Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Russian businesses in the post-Soviet period have been noted for their unusual, sometimes allegedly corrupt, business practices, and for their role in the enrichment of oligarchs. This book, which includes a wide range of case study examples, and which draws on the author’s first-hand experience of running a Russian company, argues that a key to understanding contemporary Russian business is the importance of arbitrage, that is the ability to take advantage of price and cost differentials in different markets. The book argues that the conditions for such arbitrage advantages are often created by businesses which have special links to particular institutions; that arbitrage benefits are not available to all businesses in a sector, thereby providing unfair competitive advantages to some businesses; and that businesses’ overall activities are often distorted by this system. The book includes an analysis of a wide range of different types of arbitrage activities in action.
Failed Crusade
Failed Crusade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Failed Crusade write by Stephen F. Cohen. This book was released on 2001. Failed Crusade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1990s, as Russia under Yeltsin began the transition to a market economy, most American Russia-watchers saw an optimistic future ahead. In the early twenty-first century, so-called reform economic policies have left some 70 percent of Russians living near the poverty line -- many embittered, deprived of life savings, welfare subsidies, health care, and job security. What has happened in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union? What led U.S. experts and the media to so seriously misjudge the situation?
