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enjoy dominant positions. Innovation is an important driver and determinant of this dominance. Yet, little research has been … done on innovation strategies and innovation processes in foreign subsidiaries in Russia. The paper aims to fill this gap …. On the basis of qualitative evidence, it explores the goals, patterns and challenges of innovation activities in Russian …
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companies (MNCs). Such subsidiaries are viewed as critical players in the innovation process at MNCs. Although this topic has … the dynamics of the innovation process in Russian-based subsidiaries of global MNCs. It seeks to explore and understand … motivation and drivers of innovation, key participants, and impact and outcomes of innovation, with a specific reference to the …
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“Monitoring innovation activities of innovation process participants” is a project which has been carried out by the … Higher School of Economics (HSE) for several years to promote monitoring and analysis of innovation issues in general, and on … empirical knowledge about the nature and types of interaction between various actors of the national innovation system. In 2009 …
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The paper reports the results of a survey of top executives of Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNCs). We reveal the prevailing types of job contracts and the use of monetary and non-monetary benefits, and find the similarities with and differences from such...
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We use a rich personnel data set from a Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 to analyze how the financial crisis in 1998 and the resulting change in external labour market conditions affect the wages and the welfare of workers inside a firm. We provide evidence that large shocks to external...
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Gross job and worker flows in Russian industry are studied using panel data from a recent survey of 530 firms selected through national probability sampling. The data permit an examination of several important measurement issues – including the timing and definition of employment, the roles of...
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This Paper investigates whether the efficiency effect of product market dispersion is a function of the infrastructural and policy environment. We hypothesise that more developed transportation and communication infrastructure and lower government regulation may reduce transaction costs,...
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Using the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey data, the paper examines Russian workers' fear of unemployment under different economic and labour market conditions during the last 15 years. We employ two alternative measures for this fear. The first one looks at the workers’ fear of losing...
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The available minimum wage literature is mostly based on evidence from developed countries or developing countries of Latin America. Little empirical work has been done on the effects of minimum wages in transition economies, where labour institutions experienced rapid changes and law...
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A critical, but largely unexamined assumption in the debate over reform policy design, concerns the complementarity or substitutability of market competition and private ownership in increasing firm efficiency. We analyse a simple Cournot model that distinguishes two aspects of privatization...
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