Russia. Beginning with a model of organizational culture developed in the USA, the paper presents a multi-method analysis of … culture and effectiveness in a transition economy. We argue that effectiveness in Russia relies more on adaptability and … flexibility than in the USA. Furthermore, the legacy of the communist era forces firms in Russia to deal with a workforce with a …

complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on panel data for workers and firms in Russia, facilitating identification …

real exchange rate misalignments for Poland and Russia during the 1990s using the Beveridge and Nelson (1981) decomposition … generate different levels of misalignment and different responses to exogenous shocks. The average misalignment in Russia is … crisis. The half life of an exogenous shock is found to be much shorter for Poland than for Russia in the pre-crisis period …

-to-job shifts of workers, development of an informal labour market, etc.). The transformation in Russia has witnessed an increase in …

Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in “gradualist” Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …

advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …

This paper examines the nature and scope of enterprise restructuring in Russia using two sources of firm-level data … restructuring measures that have been used in studies of privatized firms in Russia and other transition economies. Second, we apply … in Russia. …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …, in the Czech Republic this “negative spillover” effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause …

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 …