The economic success of Japan in the post-war period and various new forms of market co-ordination in European regions, and specificities of inter-firm relationships in high technology industries have increased academic and business interest in the ways that firms manage relationships between...

The sweeping political changes and institutional transformation in the former Soviet Union, together with the market shock created by the collapse of the Soviet economy were expected to generate substantial changes in firm behaviours. Privatisation, in particular, was thought to constitute the...