Russian as a language culture is in a state of flux as it responds to, and subsequently embodies, various waves of systemic shocks, particularly in its economic and political systems. As its authors so eloquently state, this chapter reflects on how, along this path, the perception of business...

The paper explores conceptually the implications of a major alteration in the institutional settings that have caused a radical change in the knowledge paradigm as new mostly “imported” knowledge replaces the “old” knowledge base. We focus on the process of relevance discovery. The aim...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report an explicit taxonomy of maritime operations (MO) to guide harbour masters (HMs) of smaller ports in planning more sustainable operations. Design/methodology/approach This research presents strategies for building theory to promote more sustainable...

We establish a link between inefficient enforcement and the emergence of compensating institutional arrangements on the one side and the unusually broad implementation of flexible working time and flexible pay on the other as a crucial factor that made the stabilisation of employment in Russia...

Understanding what constitutes the perceived value of foreign education to international business students is critical for business schools in order to achieve their recruitment targets. One established method relies on a financial interpretation of the costs and benefits of business education....

Effective property rights protection plays a fundamental role in promoting economic performance. Yet measurement problems make the relationship between property rights and entrepreneurship an ambiguous issue. As an advancement on previous research in this paper we propose a new approach to the...

Using ethnographic evidence from the former Soviet republics, this paper examines a relatively new and mainly unobserved concept in international business literature: the phenomenon of communication disengagement that manifests itself in many emerging markets. We link it to the deficiencies of...