From a socialist enterprise to a capitalist firm: The hazards of the managerial learning curve

Communist Economies and Economic Transformation

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 517-528

  Kuznetsova, Olga ^a   Kuznetsov, Andrei ^b  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0000376643     PISSN: 13514393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14631379608427869     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. See, for example, the World Bank country study Russian Economic Reform. Crossing the Threshold of Structural Change (Washington, DC, 1992), chapter 2.
2. Probably the most spectacular evidence of this was the major conference on enterprise behaviour in Russia sponsored by the World Bank and the Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation held in St Petersburg in summer 1995.
3. For recent research on inter-enterprise relations and employee mentality in the Soviet enterprise see Simon Clarke (ed.), Management and Industry in Russia (Cambridge, Edward Elgar, 1995).
4. There is a massive literature on deficiencies of central planning. Probably the most important books in English are János Kornai, Economics of Shortage (Amsterdam, North-Holland, 1980); Alec Nove, The Economics of Feasible Socialism Revisited (London, Harper Collins Academic, 1991); Michael Ellman, Central Planning (Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1989).
5. There is a massive literature on deficiencies of central planning. Probably the most important books in English are János Kornai, Economics of Shortage (Amsterdam, North-Holland, 1980); Alec Nove, The Economics of Feasible Socialism Revisited (London, Harper Collins Academic, 1991); Michael Ellman, Central Planning (Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1989).
6. There is a massive literature on deficiencies of central planning. Probably the most important books in English are János Kornai, Economics of Shortage (Amsterdam, North-Holland, 1980); Alec Nove, The Economics of Feasible Socialism Revisited (London, Harper Collins Academic, 1991); Michael Ellman, Central Planning (Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1989).
7. See R. E. Miles & C. C. Snow, 'Organizational Fit', in D. S. Pugh (ed.), Organizational Theory (London, Penguin Books, 1990), pp. 124-45.
8. Acting Prime Minister Egor Gaidar, in his interview with The Economist, 25 April 1992, p. 20, described the government approach in the following way: 'It is a terrible shock for an enterprise director when his factory is idle because he doesn't have some input, and he finds that some ministry is not at once discussing his problem. But that is what is happening now. We don't usually take much interest, except in rare cases. .. . Generally we say: it's your business. That creates a barrier which is very difficult to get over'.
9. See Timothy N. Ash & Paul G. Hare, 'Privatisation in the Russian Federation: Changing Enterprise Behaviour in the Transition Period', Cambridge Journal of Economics, 18, 1994, pp. 619-634; Russian Economic Barometer, 1994, 4, pp. 13-17; Qimiao Fan & Bingsong Fang, 'Are Russian Enterprises Restructuring?', paper presented at the Joint Conference of the World Bank and The Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation, St Petersburg, 12-13 June 1995, pp. 15-18.
10. See Timothy N. Ash & Paul G. Hare, 'Privatisation in the Russian Federation: Changing Enterprise Behaviour in the Transition Period', Cambridge Journal of Economics, 18, 1994, pp. 619-634; Russian Economic Barometer, 1994, 4, pp. 13-17; Qimiao Fan & Bingsong Fang, 'Are Russian Enterprises Restructuring?', paper presented at the Joint Conference of the World Bank and The Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation, St Petersburg, 12-13 June 1995, pp. 15-18.
11. See Timothy N. Ash & Paul G. Hare, 'Privatisation in the Russian Federation: Changing Enterprise Behaviour in the Transition Period', Cambridge Journal of Economics, 18, 1994, pp. 619-634; Russian Economic Barometer, 1994, 4, pp. 13-17; Qimiao Fan & Bingsong Fang, 'Are Russian Enterprises Restructuring?', paper presented at the Joint Conference of the World Bank and The Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation, St Petersburg, 12-13 June 1995, pp. 15-18.
12. The authors refer to the issue of the emerging corporate governance system in Russia in 'Privatisation, Shareholding and the Efficiency Argument: Russian Experience', Europe-Asia Studies, 48, 7, 1996.
13. See for example Gilles Alfandari & Mark E. Schaffer, 'On "Arrears" in Russia', paper presented at the Joint Conference of the World Bank and the Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation, St Petersburg, 12-13 June, 1995.
14. See M. Afanas'ev, P. Kuznetsov & P. Isaeva, 'Krizis platezhei v Rossii: chto proiskhodit na samom dele?', Voprosy ekonomiki, 1995, 8, pp. 52-67.
15. See for example Ekonomist (Moscow), 1995, 8, p. 22.
16. Sergei Aukutsionek, 'The Market Reform and Transitional Crisis', The Russian Economic Barometer, 4, 1, 1995, p. 24.
17. E. Belyanova, 'Motivatsiya i povedenie rossiiskikh predpriyatii', Voprosy ekonomiki, 1995, 6, pp. 20-21.
18. V. Maevsky & O. Rogova, 'Ob aktivizatsii kreditovaniya proizvodstva', Voprosy ekonomiki, 1995, 8, pp. 44-45.
19. Aukutsionek, p. 30.
20. Georgii Yavlinsky, 'Uroki ekonomicheskoi reformy', Oktyabr', 1994, 9, pp. 136-149.
21. Belyanova, p. 19.
22. Sergei A. Vasiliev, 'Market Forces and Structural Change in the Russian Economy', Economic policy. A European Forum, 19, December 1994, p. 130.
23. Yavlinsky, p. 146.
24. Surveys indicate that members of industrial associations receive more funds from the government than outsiders.
25. While in 1994, according to some studies, only one out of ten directors of newly privatised enterprises lost their position, the authors' own interviews in the former Ministry of Textile Industry in Moscow revealed that, in 1995, almost one-third of directors within the industry were replaced, mostly following disputes concerning late payments.
26. Interview with Radio Liberty, 19 May 1996. See also Vladimir Mau, 'Rossiya ne imeet prava povtoreniya istoricheskikh oshibok', Finansovye Izvestiya, 27 June, 1996, p. 4.
27. N. Shmelev, 'Ekonomicheskie perspektivy Rossii', Voprosy ekonomiki, 1995, 1, p. 28.
28. See Finansovye Izvestiya, 21 December 1995, p. 4.
29. A. Amsden, J. Kochanowicz & L. Taylor, The Market Meets Its Match. Restructuring the Economics of Eastern Europe (Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1994), p. 53.