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Closing the Skills-Jobs Gap : Russia and China Compared
Remington, Thomas F. - 2017
-off between deepening and broadening. The paper compares China and Russia — two large, relatively decentralized countries with …
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The Birth of an Entrepreneurial Board in Emerging Markets : A Russian Case
Libman, Alexander - 2015
This paper investigates the role of boards in founder-managed firms with concentrated ownership in emerging markets. The existing literature suggests that this type of company, even if they decide to recruit high-profile individuals as directors, rarely empowers the boards in the corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031382
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Where Does the Demand for Regulation Come from? The State’s Return to the Retail Trade in Russia
Radaev, Vadim - 2012
From the beginning of economic reform in 1992, the retail trade sector was one of the most liberalized market segments in the Russian economy. However, the state was suddenly brought back in during the late 2000s. A restrictive Federal trade law passed after continuous and furious debates in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110978
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Do Cognitive Biases Impact M&A Performance in Emerging Markets? Evidence from Russian Firms
Skvortsova, Irina; Vershinina, Anna - 2021
In this paper we investigate cognitive biases as a potential reason for the varied results of M&A in emerging capital markets. We focus on two cognitive biases, CEO overconfidence and availability bias, which significantly influence CEO behavior, encouraging them to be irrational in M&A deals....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225911
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The Role Of CEO Characteristics In Firm Innovative Performance : A Comparative Analysis Of EU Countries And Russia
Ricotta, Fernanda; Golikova, Victoria; Kuznetsov, Boris - 2021
In this paper, we investigate whether CEO characteristics (owner-manager status, age and gender) influence firm innovative performance and test empirically if the effect differs for market and transition economies. We use cross-sectional data of manufacturing firms in six EU countries and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212182
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Innovation Processes in the Russian Manufacturing Subsidiaries of MNCs – An Integrated View from Case Studies
Gurkov, Igor - 2013
The extant literature acknowledges the role of overseas subsidiaries in the growth and development of multinational companies (MNCs). Such subsidiaries are viewed as critical players in the innovation process at MNCs. Although this topic has gained importance, it remains largely under-researched...
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Structural Decisions of Multinationals in Regions with Weak Courts
Bessonova, Eugenia - 2017
We investigate the impact of court conditions on multinational decisions on entry, subsidiary size and entry mode across subnational regions in Russia. We apply the literature on heterogeneous firms and the institution-based view of investor behavior, which predict that higher institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958871
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Costs and Benefits of Land Ownership : The Case of Russian Firms
Castañeda Dower, Paul - 2015
Private ownership confers numerous benefits, including stronger performance incentives, better use of privately owned assets, and improved access to finance. We argue that privately owned land could be both an asset and a liability, and overall net benefits of land ownership are contingent on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012525
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Career Trajectories of Regional Officials : Russia and China Before and After 2012
Remington, Thomas F.; Yakovlev, Andrei A.; … - 2020
appointments of regional officials in Russia and China before and after 2012. We hypothesize that, as a consequence of the … officials has become somewhat more regularized while in China under Xi it has become somewhat less regularized. Our analysis … uses a comprehensive original set of biographical data on all top regional officials from 2002 through 2019 in China and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014091525
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Symbolic Representations of ‘Sovereignty’ in Modern Political Discourse (Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Discourse From France, USA, Russia and China)
Akopov, Sergei - 2019
were involved in the specific discourse of the four presidents: France, the United States of America, Russia and China. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872275