The architecture of credit card markets -- Market building in the transitional context -- Setting the stage : consumer credit and banking before and during the transition -- Inner circles : card issuing at the dawn of the market -- The stick but no carrot : disseminating cards through employers...

Why are informal practices still prevalent in Russia? -- Chernyi piar : dirty campaigning and the workings of Russian democracy -- Kompromat : the use of compromising information in informal politics -- Krugovaia poruka : sustaining the ties of joint responsibility -- Tenevoi barter : shadow...

If Russia has become a market economy, how does it function on a grassroots level? In addition to market mechanisms, what kinds of social and moral principles are at work in the new Russian economy? Is the 'Soviet legacy' still present in post-Soviet business practices? This book searches for...

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. This book examines the significance of networks among the firms operative in the contemporary Russian software industry in the St. Petersburg region.

Kai Riewe, geboren 1974, schloss sein Studium 2000 an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum als Diplom-Ökonom ab. Anschließend war er dort als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter tätig, zunächst im Studiengang ""European Culture and Economy"", später am Lehrstuhl für Internationale...