Russian Business Relationships in the Wake of Reform

Hertz (international business and management, U. of Cambridge) details how a group of Russian firms have evolved during the 1990s, drawing primarily on her own case studies but also on economics, sociology, and management theory. She argues that the kind of market system emerging is quite distinctive, and that though the climate is more competitive, firms are being buffered from selection pressures and conducting business in ways that owe more to the heritage of Soviet central-planning than to the market. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.