This report presents the results of a large-scale survey involving Russian enterprises during the year 2000. The results show that Russian export-oriented companies are implementing the latest methods in operations and quality control management, and some forms of modern managerial accounting...

Based on the results of the large-scale survey in Russian industrial enterprises we made an attempt to describe the dominant archetype of the Russian industrial firm in terms of strategic patterns, prevailing corporate trajectories and resulting competitive positioning. We have seen that the...

In a detailed study of 20 newly-privatized Russian enterprises, Igor Gurkov and Shlomo Maital ask two important questions concerning ownership and performance. First, who really controls the newly-privatized enterprises and who is generally thought to control them - are they the same? Second,...