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- Andreyev, Oleg A., et al.
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Privatization of municipal property in Murmansk
- 1995
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In: Polar Geography. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1088-937X .- 1939-0513. ; 19:2, s. 88-106
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper presents the results of a pilot study of privatization of municipal property in the Russian North based on data from the Murmansk city government. After a general overview of the process in Russia and Murmansk city, the paper outlines a number of positive and negative aspects of the privatization of city-owned enterprises on the basis of interviews conducted with the management of the newly privatized enterprises.
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- Olsson, Mats-Olov, 1948-
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Changes in Market Behaviour Among Russian Forest Enterprises
- 2021
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In: Europe-Asia Studies. - : Routledge. - 0966-8136 .- 1465-3427. ; 73:3, s. 505-532
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The article reports on a follow-up of a case study conducted in 1998-1999 investigating the rules governing the behaviour of Russian forest enterprises. The new study, carried out in 2011-2012, used the same survey in interviews with a subset of the enterprises that took part in the original investigation. The objective was to see whether enterprises' behaviour and the rules governing their behaviour had become more market efficient since our original study. The new study showed that, over a ten-year period, the behaviour of the surveyed enterprises became better adapted to rules governing a modern market economy. However, many traits of the virtual economy remained.
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- Olsson, Mats-Olov, 1948-
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Continuity and change : institutions and transition in the Russian forest sector
- 2008
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- For reasons having to do with the Soviet resource allocation model, many Russian forest sector enterprises were miserably unfit to meet the market competition that started to emerge after the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. To avoid bankruptcy and stay alive in Russia's transition towards a market-like system many enterprises chose to engage in non-monetary transactions, thus establishing what has become known as Russia's virtual economy. The peculiar institutions ("rules-in-use") guiding actors' behaviour in this odd system are incompatible with the operation of efficient markets.The topics discussed in this book can be framed through the following questions: What is the general role of institutions in the on-going changes in Russian society? Are there institutions that hamper the transition process towards democracy and a market economy? If so, how do they hamper this process? How can such institutions be changed to better serve the needs of the emerging market system? These and similar questions are addressed from several different but related perspectives in a number of studies of actors' behaviour in the Russian timber procurement arena.
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- Olsson, Mats-Olov, 1948-, et al.
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Systemic Interventions in Sweden : Some Discernible Patterns
- 2004
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In: Systems Approaches and Their Application. - Dordrecht : Kluwer International Publishers, Dordrecht. - 1402023693 - 9781402023699 - 9781402023705 ; , s. 313-335
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Book chapter (pop. science, debate, etc.)
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- Olsson, Mats-Olov, 1948-, et al.
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Systems and Systems Theory
- 2004
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In: Systems Approaches and Their Application. - Dordrecht : Kluwer International Publishers, Dordrecht. - 1402023693 - 9781402023699 - 9781402023705 ; , s. 3-29
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)
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- Olsson, Mats-Olov, 1948-
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The Russian virtual economy turning real : institutional change in the Arkhangel’sk forest sector
- 2008
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In: Europe-Asia Studies. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 0966-8136 .- 1465-3427. ; 60:5, s. 707-738
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The article reports on an attempt to assess recent developments of the Russian ‘virtual economy’, a system that, some have argued, represents an alternative form of economic interaction to the modern market economy. In the virtual economy enterprises are engaged in informal non-market transactions with other enterprises and the public sector in accordance with rules that are alien to a market economy. Structural and behavioural changes that have taken place in the Russian economy after 1998 are studied with the help of official data and two surveys (from 1998 and 2005) of 15 forest sectorenterprises in Arkhangel’sk Oblast’, a region in Russia’s north-west with a largely forest-based economy. The outcome of the assessment indicates that the virtual economy is contracting in the Arkhangel’sk forest sector as well as in Russia at large, and that it will eventually disappear altogether, even if it is likely to exert a profound influence on the behaviour of Russian enterprises for some time yet.
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