Introduction : the reinvention -- The setting : corporate renewal in a tight business culture -- The background : Japan's economic rise-stability through lifetime employment -- The core concept : aggregate niche strategy -- The impact : Japan's role in global business -- Management change :...

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...