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Institutions, Networks and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: An Exploration

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul - 2006

In this paper we explore the ways in which institutions and networks influence entrepreneurial development in Russia … institutional environment in Russia in terms of three dimensions: on the rate of productive entrepreneurial activity measured in … addition, the analysis explores the effectiveness of Russia’s informal networks for circumventing the weak institutional …

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Institutions and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: A Comparative Perspective

Estrin, Saul; Aidis, Ruta; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2007

entrepreneurial development in Russia. We utilize Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001 and 2002 to investigate … the effects of the weak institutional environment in Russia on entrepreneurship, comparing it first with all available GEM … country samples and second, in more detail, with Brazil and Poland. Our results provide strong evidence that Russia …

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Perceptions and Behavior: Analyzing Wage Arrears in Russia

Linz, Susan J.; Semykina, Anastasia; Petrin, Charles - 2006

We investigate the link between perceptions and behavior using the wage arrears phenomenon in Russia as our case study …

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How Do Workers Fare During Transition? Perceptions of Job Insecurity among Russian Workers, 1995-2004

Linz, Susan J.; Semykina, Anastasia - 2007

Labor market conditions deteriorated substantially in the1990s during Russia’s transition from plan to market …

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Consumption Smoothing and Vulnerability in Russia

Gerry, Christopher; Li, Carmen A. - 2007

Applying bootstrapped quantile regression to the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) data, we examine the channels through which individuals experience and seek to cope with changes in consumption. We find that married individuals living in small households, with educated heads in...

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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Svejnar, Jan - 2007

Republic and Russia. Using 1992-2000 panel data on virtually all medium and large industrial firms in each country, we find …

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Does Capital Market Myopia Affect Plant Productivity? Evidence from Going Private Transactions

Dittmar, Amy - 2010

One influential criticism of the stock market oriented U.S. financial system is that its excessive focus on short term quarterly earnings forces public firms to behave in a myopic manner. We hypothesize that if capital markets pressure listed firms to be myopic in a way that impacts efficiency,...

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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries

Svejnar, Jan - 2007

We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated proxy...

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Impact of M & A on firm performance in India: Implications for concentration of ownership and insider entrenchment

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Selarka, Ekta - 2008

performance. On the one hand, concentration of ownership that, in turn, concentrates management control in the hands of a strategic investor, eliminates agency problems associated with dispersed ownership. On the other hand, it may lead to entrenchment of upper management which may be...

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Transacting in the absence of trust : Uncertainty and network patterns in post-communism

Lehmbruch, Lehmbruch, B. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2012

The paper critically discusses the widespread literature focusing on informal post-communist “clans,” “networks,” or “fiefdoms.” Often self-described as determinedly empirical, the “clan” paradigm is crucially shaped by its origins in the analysis of East Asia, as well as by its...

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