Entrepreneurship among Russian immigrants in Norway and their stay-at-home peers
Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. 2010. Vol. 15. No. 4. P. 461-479.
Vinogradov E., Gabelko M.
The level of self-employment among immigrants is often higher than among natives. The purpose of this paper was to test empirically whether selective migration with respect to entrepreneurial characteristics may explain this difference. The relevant hypotheses were tested comparing representative samples of Russian immigrants in Norway and their stay-at-home counterparts. Data from the Russian population came from the 2008 GEM study, while data on Russian immigrants in Norway were collected through a specially designed postal survey. The analysis revealed some demographic dissimilarity between the two groups, as well as a presence of selective migration with respect to entrepreneurial characteristics. This study demonstrates that immigrants (as compared to non-migrants) are more likely to report intentions to start a business. Moreover, they possess relatively large amount of specific human capital, social capital and self-confidence relevant for entrepreneurship. The paper concludes with proposed practical implications and suggestions for further research.
Research target: Economics and Management (including Public Administration)
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Экономика и управление: проблемы и перспективы развития. Сборник научных статей по итогам международной научно-практической конференции г.Волгоград 15-16 ноября 2010 г.
Ч. 1. Волгоград: Волгоградское научное издательство, 2010.
The Legitimacy of the Bolshevik Order, 1917-1918: Language Usage in Revolutionary Russian Law
Borisova T. Y. Law. LAW. Высшая школа экономики, 2012. No. 05.
The article describes and analyzes the legislative politics of revolutionary regimes in Russia in 1917-1918. The author aims to demonstrate the political meaning of the form of early Soviet legislation and its legitimizing effect. The revolutionary legislators often used specific language in the new laws as a vehicle of legitimacy, i.e. to make the people comply. The two main types of legal language used by the Bolsheviks can be interpreted from the perspective of different types of legitimacy. The revolutionary strategy used propagandistic legislation, written in the language of lay people, which urged them to act according to the new law. It can be seen as a request for acts of the people to legitimize the soviets. On the contrary, the traditional strategy employed old bureaucratic means of writing and distributing legislation to the local soviets. The language used by this strategy was closed to the understanding of a lay audience and implied traditions of obeying the law written in familiar legal language, which in turn implied rational/legal legitimacy. The second strategy had already become dominant after the first months of the Bolshevik revolution. This observation demonstrates that from the very beginning of their rule, Soviet leaders approached legislative policy from a technocratic point of view, which determined the further development of Soviet legal theory and practice.
The Capitalist Personality: Face-to-Face Sociality and Economic Change in the Post-Communist World
Swader C. S. NY: Routledge, 2013.
Modern capitalism favors values that undermine our face-to-face bonds with friends and family members. Focusing on the post-communist world, and comparing it to more 'developed' societies, this book reveals the mixed effects of capitalist culture on interpersonal relationships. While most observers blame the egoism and asocial behavior found in new free-market societies on their communist pasts, this work shows how relationships are also threatened by the profit orientations and personal ambition unleashed by economic development. Successful people in societies as diverse as China, Russia, and Eastern Germany adjust to the market economy at a social cost, relaxing their morals in order to obtain success and succumbing to increased material temptations to exploit relationships for their own financial and professional gain. The capitalist personality is internally troubled as a result of this "sellout," but these qualms subside as it devalues intimate qualitative bonds with others. This book also shows that post-communists are similarly individualized as people living in Western societies. Capitalism may indeed favor values of independence, creativity, and self-expressiveness, but it also rewards self-centeredness, consumerism, and the stripping down of morality. As is the case in the West, capitalist culture fosters an internally conflicted and self-centered personality in post-communist societies.
Обновляемый образовательный ресурс "Экономическая школа НИУ ВШЭ"
Corporate governance and control in Russian banks
Vernikov A. V. Munich Personal RePEc Archive. University Library of Munich, 2008. No. 10028.
The Working Paper examines the peculiarities of the Russian model of corporate governance and control in the banking sector. The study relies upon theoretical as well as applied research of corporate governance in Russian commercial banks featuring different forms of ownership. We focus on real interests of all stakeholders, namely bank and stock market regulators, bank owners, investors, top managers and other insiders. The Anglo-American concept of corporate governance, based on agency theory and implying outside investors' control over banks through stock market, is found to bear limited relevance. We suggest some ways of overcoming the gap between formal institutions of governance and the real life.
Context, Process and gender in Entrepreneurship
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.
The volume deals with the current frontier research in entrepreneurship theory in Europe on contextual and processual specifics of entrepreneurial practice
Added: Dec 1, 2015
Culture, Democracy and the Child's Right to Express his/her Views (Russian perspective)
Kravchuk N. V. Irish Review of Community Economic Development Law and Policy. 2012. Vol. 1. No. 2. P. 63-82.
The main focus of this paper is the relation between the realisation of the right of the child to express his/her views and democracy in Russia. With this in view, I will study the interconnection between the right to express the views and the right to participate. Further, I will give an overview of the specifics of democracy in Russia, how they influence political participation, and what could be done to prevent the further infantilisation of citizens in Russia. Finally, I will explore traditional perceptions with regard to children's participation in Russia and the legal framework and practice of the implementation of the child's right to social and political participation.
Russia's banking sector transition: Where to?
Vernikov A. V. BOFIT Discussion Papers. DP. Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition, 2007. No. DP 5/2007.
We review the transition of the Russian banking sector focusing on the interplay between ownership change and institutional change. We find that the state's withdrawal from commercial banking has been inconsistent and limited in scope. To this day, core banks have yet to be privatized and the state has made a comeback as owner of the dominant market participants. We also look at the new institutions imported into Russia to regulate banking and finance, including rule of law, competition, deposit insurance, confidentiality, bankruptcy, and corporate governance. The unfortunate combination of this new institutional overlay and traditional local norms of behavior have brought Russia to an impasse - the banking sector's ownership structure hinders further advancement of market institutions. Indeed, we may now be witnessing is a retreat from the original market-based goals of transition.
Стимулирование инновационного развития экономики через корпоративное налогообложение: применение британского опыта к российским реалиям
Крутик А. В. РИСК: Ресурсы, информация, снабжение, конкуренция. 2012. № 3. С. 119-122.
UK corporate tax reform, corporate tax in Russia and tax relief system were considered and described in the article. Also it was made an attempt to apply UK experience of innovative activity encouragement through corporate tax regulation to Russian economy.
Public-Private Wage Gap in Russia
Sharunina A. In bk.: Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference for Doctoral Students and Young Researchers EDAMBA 2012. Bratislava: Publishing House EKONOM, 2012. P. 1075-1084.
In this paper the public-private wage gap is estimated by means both of the OLS and the quantile regression, which will provide a more complex picture of the distribution of the public-private sector wage gap. The author finds the existence of significant public-private wage gap (about 30%) considering both observable and unobservable characteristics of workers and jobs. Using the decomposition based on quantile regression helps to answer the question about the nature of the wage differences. The author comes to the conclusion that the main reason for the gap is the institutional mechanisms of public sector wages in Russia. The analysis is based on the data from Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS-HSE) 2000-2010.
Возможности и перспективы развития предпринимательства в России (перечитывая современных классиков теории предпринимательства)
Чепуренко А. Ю. В кн.: Современные классики теории предпринимательства. М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2013. Гл. 17. С. 497-526.
The book contains papers by the leading contemporary researchers of entrepreneurship who belong to the group of awardees of the Global awared in entrepreneurship research as well as outlines of their research activities. First concise collection of the mainstream entrepreneurship research ideas of the end of the 20th - beginning of the 21th centuries.
Система поддержки инновационной деятельности Германии
Назаров М. Г. В кн.: Факторы устойчивого развития регионов России. Кн. 8. Новосибирск: СИБПРИНТ, 2010. Гл. 4.2. С. 125-139.
«Вехи» в контексте, или Интеллигенция как трагический элемент русской истории
Кантор В. К. Вопросы философии. 2010. № 4. С. 91-109.
In his article Vladimir Kantor explores the destiny of Russia intelligentsia within the context of cultural crisis that took place at the turn of XIX and XX centuries, analyzing the Vekhovs, a group of leading intellectuals who ran a collection of essays, titled "Vekhi", studying their relationship towards that Russian cultural phenomenon. To author, the intelligentsia is considered as a critical factor in the development of Russian history. Within a context of the struggle around the "Vekhi", by referring to famous philosophical and literature books, published in 1909, the author focuses on relationships between intelligentsia and ordinary people, their attractive and repulsive interaction, which represents the key theme of the Russian destiny. Any historical movement occurs through tragedy; heroes who move the history have to sacrifice themselves to provide that movement. Confirmation to that idea would be rejection and exclusion of the Russian intelligentsia from the country's mentality throughout a number of generations which ultimately led to its tragic being.
Плотников М. В. Н. Новгород: Издательство Волго-Вятской академии государственной службы, 2011.
The book contains teaching materials and notes on the study course "Entrepreneurship".
Государственная политика в области ограничения курения: какие меры наиболее эффективны
Засимова Л. С. Вопросы государственного и муниципального управления. 2010. № 4. С. 68-81.
Smoking is a problem, bringing signifi cant social and economic costs to Russiansociety. However, ratifi cation of the World health organization Framework conventionon tobacco control makes it possible to improve Russian legislation accordingto the international standards. So, I describe some measures that should be taken bythe Russian authorities in the nearest future, and I examine their effi ciency. By studyingthe international evidence I analyze the impact of the smoke-free areas, advertisementand sponsorship bans, tax increases, etc. on the prevalence of smoking, cigaretteconsumption and some other indicators. I also investigate the obstacles confrontingthe Russian authorities when they introduce new policy measures and the public attitudetowards these measures. I conclude that there is a number of easy-to-implementanti-smoking activities that need no fi nancial resources but only a political will.
Added: Oct 2, 2012
Влияние выбора целей и инструментов политики денежных властей на уязвимость экономик
Трунин П. В., Дробышевский С. М., Евдокимова Т. В. М.: Издательский дом «Дело» РАНХиГС, 2012.
Макроэкономическое обоснование антикризисного управления организациями
Березовский Д. С. Вестник Московского государственного университета печати. 2011. № 2.
Added: Mar 3, 2014
Оценка эффективности деятельности компании на основе ее интеллектуального потенциала
Хинина Н. С. Казанская наука. 2010. № 4. С. 103-109.
One of the most important indicators of company's success is the increase of its value. The article investigates traditional methods of company's value assessment and the evidence that the application of these methods is incorrect in the new stage of economy. So it is necessary to create a new method of valuation based on the new main sources of company's success that is its intellectual capital.
Институт минимальной заработной платы в странах ОЭСР
Вишневская Н. Т. Проблемы рынка труда. WP3. Высшая школа экономики, 2005. № 03.
The paper examines the institute of minimum wage in developed and transition economies and in a number of the developing countries. First of all the institutional mechanism of minimum wage fixing is considered. One of the sections explores the dynamics of absolute and relative levels of minimum wage. The special attention is paid to the impact of the institute of minimum wage on the labour market. The author considers the mechanism of transmission of the minimum wage increases on the employment and unemployment dynamics. The paper also contains the result of the empirical research. The experience of many countries witnesses that large increases in minimum wage levels lead to the stagnation of the employ-ment, especially of the disadvantaged groups. The negative effect is larger for the companies with higher share of labour costs and more active use of unqualified labour, that is small businesses and agricultural enterprises. One of the main conclusions is that the minimum wage is not an effective tool of the poverty reduction as the majority of the recipients live in households of average and upper average income.
Численность и состав российской бюрократии: между советской номенклатурой и госслужбой гражданского общества
Правовые институты в России 2000-2007 годах: взгляд со стороны бизнеса
Яковлев А. А. Общественные науки и современность. 2008. № 4. С. 21-37.
На океанских волнах. Россия в мировом кризисе
Уринсон Я. М. Вестник Европы. 2014. № 38-39.
Added: Feb 5, 2018
Edited by: А. Михайлов Вып. 14. М.: Социологический факультет МГУ, 2012.