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 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...

Many American multinational enterprises (MNEs) are currently active in Russia despite the turbulence encountered in that transitional economy. Most seem to have entered as an extension of their global strategies with a long-term horizon. While some entered with considerable involvement and...

In the past several years, the Putin government's goal of joining the World Trade Organization, as well as the critical shortage of investment funds in the country, have been prime levers in raising the importance of corporate governance in Russia. While most research has addressed relatively...