The relationship between enterprise performance and the various exogenous variables – ownership, competition, financial constraints – have been considered separately in the papers of this Special Issue. In this concluding paper, we analyse them together and investigate their interaction. We...

In this paper, we introduce our survey of 437 Russian industrial enterprises, 1997-1999. We gathered data on enterprise performance, both qualitative and quantitative, and four determining features of the Russian industrial environment – ownership structure (state, insider, outsider);...

The literature suggests that competitive forces should be an important element in improving enterprise performance in transition economies, especially when combined with private ownership. However, empirical evidence on these issues for Russia has as yet not been convincing. Our findings are...