Purpose – The purpose of this article is to analyze the initial public offerings (IPOs) of Russian companies in the context of the country's investment attractiveness and the readiness of its companies to list on stock exchanges, domestically and/or internationally. The analysis takes a...

Purpose – This introductory paper aims to outline the reasons for optimism as well as for skepticism in regard to Russia's position in the group of BRIC nations and in the global economy. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a brief overview of developments in Russia. This...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the dramatically changed role of Russia in the global economy since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, as the Soviet institutions collapsed and were either reformed or replaced in a new Russian institutional landscape. The paper...

The economic power of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRICs) is rapidly increasing, changing the landscape of global economics and politics. Top scholars of international business address in this vital volume the markets, strategy implications, challenges and possibilities of this new economic...

This article describes the quality leadership style of a Russian woman entrepreneur who started a successful software operation under a licensing agreement with an American company. A cornerstone of her business philosophy was that quality should be its hallmark Her style reflected many...

This study examines the beliefs about work of 292 Russian managers who were surveyed using Buchholz's (1977) 45-item instrument depicting six major belief clusters: humanistic belief system, organisational beliefs, work ethic, beliefs about worker participation in decisions, leisure ethic, and...

Despite the many problems that emerged during Russia's experiment with a market economy in the 1990s, Western firms are not likely to forego the lure that still exists in that market of 150 million people. Understanding the economic and political developments of that decade, and their effects...

This article tracks the emergence of corporate governance through four stages of the Russia's transition to a market economy from the mid-1980s to the present: commercialization, privatization, nomenklatura, and statization. For each stage, the government's economic objectives are summarized, as...

In the fall of 2005, former chairman of Yukos Oil, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was sentenced to prison, after being found guilty of fraud and tax evasion. Many viewed the trial as the government's attempt to gain control of the energy sector which Putin had declared as strategically crucial to the...