Familialism, Friendship and the Small Firm in the New Russia

McMylor, Peter; Mellor, Rosemary; Barkhatova, Nonna

doi:10.1080/713673990

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“…One of the employees is also an "extra mother" to the youngest son, and she is available around the clock. These findings are also indications of an emerging new division of labor as observed by Salmenniemi et al, (2011), and compatible with earlier research which found that extended families had a crucial role in making post-socialism survivable (McMylor et al, 2000;Pickup and White, 2003).…”

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“…There are also statements from small entrepreneurs to the effect that even if they feel they do not get help from the authorities, neither are they hindered by them. A common goal of community survival might imply that while the more solvent entrepreneurs are subject to bargaining and "begging practices", the smaller ones are just left alone, suggesting that they might have an advantage, as nobody interferes with the development of their small businesses (Lindner, 2009;McMylor et al, 2000). This provides motivation for developing new small businesses rather than expanding the already existing ones.…”

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Women’s entrepreneurship in Russia: impacts from the Soviet system

Sätre

2016

Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy

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Purpose – This paper aims to analyze how surviving norms from the Soviet time continue to shape women’s entrepreneurship in contemporary Russia. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical data are based on observations and qualitative interviews in two Russian regions in 2002-2014 and also to a part on a survey from one of the regions. The analytical framework is based on Douglass North’s (1990) categorization of four main kinds of institutions which influence the way a society develops: legal rules, organization forms, enforcement and behavioural norms. Findings – The analysis shows that it is important to incorporate norms connected to women’s societal roles to the institutional theory. The survival of norms might in fact imply that women’s entrepreneurship tends to conserve the ways the system works, rather than to contributing to changing it. Although the survival of such norms tends to prevent changes, the possibility to start private businesses, on the other hand, opened up new ways for women to fulfill their different societal responsibilities. Originality/value – The paper is based on unique empirical data including some 200 interviews and observations from regular field trips to villages and small towns in Russia since the early 2000s.

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Women’s entrepreneurship in Russia: impacts from the Soviet system

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2016

Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy

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“…None of our respondents could be described as mafiosi. According to our evidence, East-Central Europe on the one hand, and Russia on the other, have rapidly become very different types of post-communist market economies (see Eberwein and Tholen, 1997;Hanson, 1997;McMylor et al, 1998;Roberts and Tholen, 1998;Varese, 1994).…”

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The New East’s New Businesses: Heart of the Labor Market Problem and/or Part of the Solution?

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Tholen³

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“…The development of corruption in modern Russia has been influenced by both practices of informal interaction adopted by the bureaucratic apparatus of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Anderson, 2012; Clarke, 1995; Favarel-Garrigues, 2011; Ledeneva, 1996/1997; Ledeneva, 1998; McMylor et al, 2000; Oleinik, 2004) and by the global internalization of delinquent behaviour patterns during the period of transition from the socialistic economy to the market economy in the 1990s, when the first Russian president Boris Yeltsin was in power (Anderson, 2012; Cheloukhine and King, 2007; Ledeneva, 2006; Levin and Satarov, 2000; Moiseev and Prokuratov, 2014: 68–77). However, in contrast to previous decades, the level of corruption in modern Russia is significantly high.…”

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Fighting Corruption in Russia: Its Characteristics and Purpose

Kazyrytski

2019

Social & Legal Studies

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This article examines possible reasons for the inefficiency of criminal policy in the fight against corruption in modern Russia and presents a critical analysis of the role of the supreme state authorities responsible for the development and implementation of criminal laws. It is noted that corruption is functional for the stable development of the Russian authoritarian system, which is based on relations of patrimonial capitalism. The real purpose of campaigns against corruption is emphasized, and it is argued that the implementation of an effective anti-corruption strategy is impossible in modern Russia since this presupposes a threat to the survival of its political and economic model.

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Familialism, Friendship and the Small Firm in the New Russia

Cited by 8 publications

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Women’s entrepreneurship in Russia: impacts from the Soviet system

Women’s entrepreneurship in Russia: impacts from the Soviet system

The New East’s New Businesses: Heart of the Labor Market Problem and/or Part of the Solution?

Fighting Corruption in Russia: Its Characteristics and Purpose

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