The Architecture of Russian Markets

This study analyses enterprise development and entrepreneurship and their relationship with the state and market building in Russia. It focuses on continuities and changes in the factory regime, drawing on existing literature and the author's own research and evaluation.

Autorentext

Bruno Grancelli is a former professor of economic sociology at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento. He has carried out research and evaluation activities in organisational change, local development, management and emerging entrepreneurship in Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has published extensively on these issues.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: re-reading a program for an economic sociology of post-socialism 2. Toward capitalism without capitalists 2.1. A reminder of Soviet factory regime 2.2. The failure of 'market socialism': micro-outcomes of a macro-event 2.3. Privatization, marketization and organizational adaptations 2.4. Local problems and foreign solutions: the training of managers 3. Enterprises and the administrative regime: history matters 3.1. State and 'state concessionaires' 3.2. Labour market: normative rigidity and organizational flexibility 3.3. Human resource management: continuities and changes 3.4. Organizational environments and emerging entrepreneurship 4. Local environments and the minor architecture of markets 4.1.'Subaltern entrepreneurship' and Soviet legacies 4.2. Regional economies and small business 4.3. Governors and entrepreneurs 5. Organizations, institutions and the rebuilding of markets: new insights on the debate 5.1. Russian factories and company towns: a back-to-roots journey in organizational institutionalism and a comparative look 5.2. Neoistitutionalism and area studies: notes on the multidisciplinary dialogue 6. Conclusions References Subject Index