Privatisation, decentralisation and production adjustment in the Russian defence industry

The institutionalization of relative advantage: formal institutions, subconstitutional presidential powers, and the rise of authoritarian politics in Russia, 1994–2012

“…The evolution of the defense industry -and arms exports in particular -is indicative of the trajectory of state-business relations from the early 1990s to the 2000s and the regulative power of presidential decrees as a whole (Sanchez Andres 1998. Until 1998, no federal law on Military-Technical Cooperation (MTC) had been passed, and hence there was ample room for institutional gardening by decree.…”

Restructuring the Defence Industry and Arms Production in Russia

“…This means that a more thorough process of substantial privatisation was needed in the sector. 2 This situation becomes more serious if we consider that the state, through the GKOP/Minoboronprom, did not achieve effective control over state-owned companies and state ownership in privatised organisations, 3 which questions the effectiveness of the restructuring policy. Another line of restructuring followed by the GKOP/Minoboronprom was the consolidation of the state-owned organisations by means of a special status: kazennye predpriyatiya (treasury factories, i.e.…”