... with the organisation's administrative heritage in order to increase absorptive capacity? Sarah E.A. Dixon can be contacted at: s.dixon@kingston.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Senior management Change management Oil industry Russia First we present the theoretical...

... and employees at nine manufacturing enterprises located in Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic. The results suggest that managers in these four countries used three well‐known leadership styles – transactional, transformational, and laissez‐faire. However, the laissez‐faire...

... A new management study from executive search company Amrop International provides insights into selecting senior managers to work successfully in Russia. The report says that top executives moving to the country face, "the realities of ineffective systems and procedures, dealing with intricate...

..., using material gathered during visits to Russia by the author from 1994 to 1997. This information is then followed by a discussion of demand‐related factors in the business environment, and the company’s product and manufacturing strategies, including the assimilation of advanced Western technologies...

... studies currently under way, into the effectiveness of Western management knowledge transfer into Russia. The paper identifies the ways in which the interplay between the attitudinal sets of Russian top managers, and consultants’ behaviours, creates disillusionment and disappointment. The conclusion...

...Nigel Holden; Andrew Gale Points out that the transformation of Russia into a modern industrial democracy depends to a high degree on the capacity of Russian managers′ to absorb and implement Western management know‐how; this, in turn, depends on the success of trainers to communicate management...