Continuity and Change: Institutions and Transition in the Russian Forest Sector - Couverture souple

Olsson, Mats-Olov

 
9783639099591: Continuity and Change: Institutions and Transition in the Russian Forest Sector
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639099591 ISBN 13 : 9783639099591
Editeur : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008

Synopsis

For reasons having to do with the Soviet resource allocation model, many Russian forest sector enterprises were miserably unfit to meet the market competition that started to emerge after the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. To avoid bankruptcy and stay alive in Russia¿s transition towards a market-like system many enterprises chose to engage in non-monetary transactions, thus establishing what has become known as Russia¿s virtual economy. The peculiar institutions (¿rules-in-use¿) guiding actors¿ behaviour in this odd system are incom- patible with the operation of efficient markets. The topics discussed in this book can be framed through the following questions: What is the general role of institutions in the on-going changes in Russian society? Are there institutions that hamper the transition process towards demo- cracy and a market economy? If so, how do they hamper this process? How can such institutions be changed to better serve the needs of the emerging market system? These and similar questions are addressed from several different but related perspectives in a number of studies of actors¿ behaviour in the Russian timber procurement arena.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

For reasons having to do with the Soviet resource allocation model, many Russian forest sector enterprises were miserably unfit to meet the market competition that started to emerge after the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. To avoid bankruptcy and stay alive in Russia¿s transition towards a market-like system many enterprises chose to engage in non-monetary transactions, thus establishing what has become known as Russia¿s virtual economy. The peculiar institutions (¿rules-in-use¿) guiding actors¿ behaviour in this odd system are incom- patible with the operation of efficient markets. The topics discussed in this book can be framed through the following questions: What is the general role of institutions in the on-going changes in Russian society? Are there institutions that hamper the transition process towards demo- cracy and a market economy? If so, how do they hamper this process? How can such institutions be changed to better serve the needs of the emerging market system? These and similar questions are addressed from several different but related perspectives in a number of studies of actors¿ behaviour in the Russian timber procurement arena.

Biographie de l'auteur

Mats-Olov Olsson holds a PhD in Political Science from Luleå University of Technology. He has done research on the Soviet Union and Russia at Uppsala University and the Centre for Regional Science, Umeå University, Sweden. In 1997¿2001 he was a Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) near Vienna.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639099591
ISBN 13 
9783639099591
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
228
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