The Evolution of the Collective Forms of Interaction between Foreign Business and Government in Russia

Yakovlev, Andrei; Freinkman, Lev; Ershova, Nina

doi:10.17835/2076-6297.2017.9.4.016-036

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“…Generally, a social environment dominated by ethics narratives and concomitant ceremonial formalism (as opposed to instrumental rationality) has been shown to define choices of the Azerbaijani and generally post-Soviet citizens in agriculture (Wegren 2005), attitudes toward legality and enforcement of contracts (Ledeneva 2006), education and research (Libman & Zweynert 2014), and other spheres (Zavisca and Gerber 2016). Hence, personal ethics becomes a counterpoise to the pervading lack of trust among post-Soviet actors striving for collective action (Yakovlev, Freinkman, Ershova 2017). Preference for ethical (rather than technocratic) solutions to socioeconomic problems is corroborated by other empirical data on the Azerbaijani population.…”

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Cost of a Policy: Social Trust and Health Insurance Uptake in Azerbaijan and Emerging Markets

Sadigov

2024

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Do low levels of social trust increase a population’s sense of insecurity and desire to get an insurance policy or alternatively make it turn to informal networks for safety nets? While generalized social trust is an important variable to explain insurance uptake, the existing literature offers conflicting accounts of its impact on a population’s insurance demand. By employing a mixed-methods research design that combines multivariate regression of large-N cross-country data with a qualitative case study of Azerbaijan, the study provides a systematic analytical measurement of the impact of social trust on the voluntary purchase of health insurance in 93 emerging markets. The article finds a statistically significant positive effect of generalized trust on voluntary health insurance purchases. The findings suggest that in countries with a low level of social trust, people favor informal safety nets rather than formal contracts with insurance firms.

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Cost of a Policy: Social Trust and Health Insurance Uptake in Azerbaijan and Emerging Markets

Sadigov

2024

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“…The regional authorities introduced tax breaks for investors, created a regional development agency, and developed industrial parks/zones to attract greenfield investment (Zimin, 2010). Not only was this strategy used to attract foreign investors, but it also allowed to avoid high institutional pressures for conformity in the region and to bring new institutional logics by bringing in new constituents, such as MNCs (Yakovlev, Freinkman, & Ershova, 2017) including one of the major pharmaceutical companies which later constituted the basis for the creation of a pharmaceutical cluster. The effectiveness of the regional policies in this sector, however, is very much defined by the national-level policies: "In Russia, the pharmaceutical industry is regulated at the federal level.…”

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Clusters as institutional entrepreneurs: lessons from Russia

2021

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In this article, we explore whether organized clusters can act as institutional entrepreneurs to create conditions favorable to innovation in their constituent members. We view self-aware and organized clusters as “context-embedded meta-organizations” which engage in deliberate decision- and strategy-making. As such, clusters are not only shaped by their environments, as “traditional” cluster approaches suggest but can also act upon these. Their ability to act as “change agents” is crucial in countries with high institutional barriers to innovation, such as most transition economies. Focusing on Russia, we conduct two cluster case studies to analyze the strategies these adopt to alter and shape their institutional environments. We find that clusters have a dual role as institutional entrepreneurs. First, these can act collectively to shape their environments due to the power they wield. Second, they can be mechanisms empowering their constituent actors, fostering their reflexivity and creativity, and allowing them to engage in institutional entrepreneurship. Moreover, both collective and individual cluster actors adopt “bricolage” approaches to institutional entrepreneurship to compensate for the lack of resources or institutional frameworks or avoid the pressures of ineffective institutions.

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The Evolution of the Collective Forms of Interaction between Foreign Business and Government in Russia

Cited by 2 publications

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Cost of a Policy: Social Trust and Health Insurance Uptake in Azerbaijan and Emerging Markets

Cost of a Policy: Social Trust and Health Insurance Uptake in Azerbaijan and Emerging Markets

Clusters as institutional entrepreneurs: lessons from Russia

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