Managerial Strategies for Spontaneous Privatization

Johnson, Simon; Kroll, Heidi

doi:10.1080/08826994.1991.10641340

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“…When the second law of cooperatives (May 1988) allowed managers of state-owned enterprises to create spin-off firms, they responded by privatizing the most profitable of their firms' assets and selling production at inflated rates. Most of the capital for these ventures came from criminals who had amassed fortunes in the second economy (Foglesong & Solomon, 2001;Jones & Moskoff, 1991;Sergeyev, 1998).The 1990 Law on Small Enterprises created an easy method for the purchase of the most valuable parts of state firms at low prices, and facilitated spontaneous privatization (Johnson & Kroll, 1991). After 1990, the growth of private and quasi-private business also led to financial institutions becoming closely tied to criminals.…”

Section: Monopoly Over Private Property Ends: Spread Of Ownershipmentioning

confidence: 96%

The Russian mafia: Expulsion of law

Shvarts

2003

Contemporary Justice Review

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The purpose of this paper will be to determine whether the conditions that exist in present-day Russia are congruent with Foucault's claim that power in modern societies is not ensured by law and punishment but by normalization and control, which go beyond the state and its apparatuses, and that law plays an increasingly subordinate role within contemporary disciplinary society. I will also see what conclusions can be drawn from the Russian-Soviet case that are relevant to evaluating the paradigms supplied by Foucault in deciphering the modalities of power in the modern world. In what sense can he help us understand how discipline and law in Imperial and Soviet Russia created the necessary conditions for the emergence of the Russian Mafia? Law has been transformed in the hands of the Russian Mafia and has expanded its spheres of influence rather than being displaced. The conditions that exist in present-day Russia can be applied to Foucault's claim that power in modern societies is not ensured by law and punishment but by normalization and control which go beyond the state and its apparatuses. But it is not the case that law plays an increasingly subordinate role in present-day Russia. Rather, it is no longer controlled by the sovereign power of the monarchy or by the Soviet state and its apparatuses, but is now predominately controlled by the Russian Mafia.

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Section: Monopoly Over Private Property Ends: Spread Of Ownershipmentioning

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The Russian mafia: Expulsion of law

Shvarts

2003

Contemporary Justice Review

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“…10 See Jones and Moskoff (1991) for a detailed analysis of the Russian co-operatives in the late 1980s. 11 Such rent-seeking efforts were described in a number of sources, including Boycko et al (1995), , and Johnson and Kroll (1991). A particularly vivid description of rent-seeking during privatization is contained in Zubakin (1994).…”

Section: The Rent-seeking Nature Of Enterprise Privatizationmentioning

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The effect of privatization on wealth distribution in Russia

Alexeev

1999

Economics of Transition

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The paper considers the Russian privatization process and examines how its deviation from the competitive sale standard was likely to affect wealth inequality. (Privatization here is defined narrowly as the transfer of existing assets from government ownership to private hands.) While empirical evaluation is all but impossible due to the dearth of reliable data, it is feasible to analyze the institutional features of Russian privatization in terms of their effect on redistribution of wealth. The paper argues that the most relevant and interesting issue is to evaluate privatization's distributional consequences relative to the informal pre-reform property rights. In light of this, privatization is modelled as a rent-seeking contest with incumbency advantage of enterprise managers who initially held the greatest informal rights over assets. The rent-seeking contest is shown to strongly magnify this pre-reform wealth inequality reflected in the incumbency advantage.In addition, the paper analyzes the distributional consequences for various wealth groups of the differences in the composition of their pre-reform informal wealth, most importantly a relatively large share of housing assets in the wealth of the poor. The effect of wealth redistribution on economic growth in Russia is also discussed.JEL classification: D7, P2, P3.

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“…Their goal is to create a pluralism of economic and political actors to divide the spoils among the elites. Some economists studying the former Soviet Union have referred to the phenomenon as "spontaneous privatization" by the elites (Johnson and Kroll 1991). Enterprises are both encouraged to proceed on their own and to have their own incentives to form joint ventures with foreign businesses (although this process is not yet entirely favorable to Western capital).…”

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Changing Russian Political Culture in the 1990s: Parasites, Paradigms, and Perestroika

Lempert

1993

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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This essay reflects a year of field work in what was then the Soviet Union, in a study regarded as the first ethnographic research conducted by a Western anthropologist in a Russian city. The Russians are particularly important for anthropological study, not only because of recent historic events indicating changes in their political and economic structures but because they are one of several groups of northern people organized into urban industrial societies characterized by varying amounts of mass violence. This violence has been employed in subjugating minority peoples within their normal borders and outside of their borders, in absorbing those cultures, and has taken on the various forms of genocide, purges, propaganda and fear.

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Managerial Strategies for Spontaneous Privatization

Cited by 54 publications

References 18 publications

The Russian mafia: Expulsion of law

The Russian mafia: Expulsion of law

The effect of privatization on wealth distribution in Russia

Changing Russian Political Culture in the 1990s: Parasites, Paradigms, and Perestroika

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