1. Introduction -- 2. The Anglo-American assessments in a wider context -- 3. The Soviet Union and the West : the pre-war experience and international great power politics before World War II -- 4. From the guarantee to Poland to the Molotov-Ribbentropp pact -- 5. US pre-Barbarossa assessments...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- Tables. Figures -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. PLANNING AND POLICY -- 2. SOVIET PLANNING REFORMS -- 3. TOWARD A NEW GROWTH MODEL -- 4. ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND PROFITS IN THE USSR -- PART TWO / LEVELS OF OUTPUT AND PRODUCTIVITY -- 5. THE...

Chapter 1. The Transfer of Economic Ideas between Russia and the West: an Introduction (Vladimir Avtonomov) -- Chapter 2. West-Russia-West: early interactions in economic thought. Cases of Storch and Chernyshevsky (Vladimir Avtonomov) -- Chapter 3. Tugan-Baranovsky and the West (François...

This article examines the transfer of innovative "soft" technologies by multinational companies (MNCs) through foreign direct investment and the diffusion of those technologies by those MNCs into indigenous firms (IFs). By drawing upon the experience of such transfer and diffusion in the...