... lingua franca, for example, English, within the working context. Originality/value The study provides an in-depth investigation of the determinants of ethical attitudes in Russia. Conducting a single-country study, the authors are able to reveal locally meaningful determinants that may otherwise...

.... Mariia Molodchik is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: mmolodchik@hse.ru The paper is organized as follows: Section 2 contains a literature review. The next section provides a description of the decision-making by merger control authorities in Russia and discusses changes...

...Andrei Yakovlev; Denis Ivanov Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the links between investment activity and personal contacts for small- and medium-sized firms with public officials at the subnational level in Russia. Design/methodology/approach A list-experiment design, using...

... of state support in developing a self-sustained competitive innovation-dependent industry. Findings Russia’s shock therapy transition to a newly liberalised economy the 1990s without a supportive institutional framework led to severe setbacks in its modernisation process. A weak institutional context...

...., 2012 ; Yeung and Liu, 2008) [5] . Russia FDI Patents Innovation Former Soviet states Premia The paper addresses foreign direct investment [1] (FDI) in the former Soviet states. Our interest in this topic is motivated by two main facts. First, the recent surge in outward FDI (OFDI...

... behind the phenomenon. Findings The authors find that state ownership and governmental political support are two mechanisms of the transformation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to MNEs in Russia. Originality/value The topic is not covered sufficiently in the literature. The paper is based...

... are resource dependent on the former. Such endemic networking could, however, subvert and delay the process of institutionalization and perpetrate cronyism. In Russia, the shock therapy “destroyed virtually all major state dominated institutions creating countless voids in the process” (Puffer et al...

... economic benefits for the investing country. In order to provide empirical support for the investigation of how a home country government influences EMFs’ internationalization, we use the Russian context and focus on Russian MNEs, which requires several explanations. First, Russia is the major outward...

...Dr. Daniel Rottig; Sheila M. Puffer; Daniel J McCarthy; Alfred M Jaeger Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a comparative analysis of institutions and institutional voids in Russia, Brazil, and Poland over the decades of the 1980s through to 2015. The paper asserts that Russia...

... differences should be helpful for business managers engaged or planning to engage in business ventures with Russia and Norway – especially those doing so for the first time. Originality/value – The study provides new and important information about West-East business relationships and how to manage...

..., the authors use a more EMIC approach and look for specific determinants of outward FDI of firms originating in BRIC countries. Keywords: Brazil, BRIC countries, China, Cross-case analysis, India, International business, International investments, Internationalization, Outward FDI, Russia “Market...

...Dirk Holtbrügge; Heidi Kreppel Purpose Outward foreign direct investment (FDI) of firms from Brazil, Russia, India and China has increased significantly during the last few years. Despite this trend, comprehensive research on the specific determinants and antecedents of outward FDI from BRIC...

...Sergey Filippov Purpose The focus of this paper is the emergence of Russia's multinational companies. It aims to analyse their motives to internationalise as well as the approaches to internationalisation. While relevance of the theoretical perspectives is highlighted, the purpose of this paper...

...Ilan Alon; Christoph Lattemann; Marc Fetscherin; Shaomin Li; Anna‐Maria Schneider Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the status of corporate social responsibility (CSR) communications in Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC) nations. The four countries are among the biggest emerging...

...John McManus; David Floyd; Alex Kouznetsov Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine entry modes employed by foreign multinational manufacturing enterprises entering Russia. It is designed to discover how multinational firm decision makers perceive country conditions in Russia and to provide...

.... However, little is known about the organizational structure, strategic orientation, and future goals of woodworking firms in the East‐European countries in transition. This paper aims to produce information contributing to these information needs regarding Northwest Russia (NWR). Design/methodology...

...Kate Hutchings; Snejina Michailova Purpose To explore the contention that, contrary to earlier research suggesting that people in transition economies such as Russia and China have a propensity not to share knowledge, Russians' and Chinese' may in fact be more inclined to share knowledge than...