Russian Manufacturing Revisited: Industrial Enterprises at the Start of the Crisis

Kuznetsov, Boris; Dolgopyatova, Tatiana; Golikova, Victoria; Gonchar, Ksenia; Yakovlev, Andrei; Yasin, Yevgeny

doi:10.2747/1060-586x.27.4.366

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“…It will inevitably result in further increases in state intervention in the economy, preserving the relatively high concentration and monopolization level inherited at least partly from the Soviet period (Kudrin and Gurvich 2015;Kuznetsov et al 2011). If sanctions are prolonged, they may reduce competition from foreign producers in the Russian economy and lead to stronger deviations from market mechanisms and institutions.…”

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“…according to survey data (for a description of the survey, see Kuznetsov et al 2011Kuznetsov et al ), in 2009.9% of medium and large manufacturing firms had large investments in machinery, and among them, 91.4% reported purchases of imported equipment -i.e. modernization programs were highly dependent on technology and transfer of know-how, mostly from developed countries.…”

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“…like firms in other countries, Russian manufacturing firms are quite heterogeneous in terms of productivity and other performance indicators (Dosi, lechevalier, and Secchi 2010;Kuznetsov et al 2011). It is reasonable to assume that heterogeneous firms in the same industry were impacted differently Downloaded by [University of California, San Diego] at 12:54 29 June 2016 by the sanctions shock introduced in 2014, which could increase company costs, lower the quality of inputs due to import substitution, aggravate entry into export markets or limit product scope in contracting markets, provoke distrust in establishing partnerships, and make it necessary to reorganize cross-border production and value chains.…”

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Perception of risks associated with economic sanctions: the case of Russian manufacturing

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This paper is focused on assessing the risk factors for Russian manufacturing firms posed by sanctions imposed on Russia by the EU, US, and other countries in 2014. While there is an extensive literature assessing the successes and failures of international sanctions on the economies of both those imposing and targeted by sanctions on a macroeconomic level, we are more interested in trying to understand the corporate response -i.e. which firms evaluate the introduction and increasing scale of economic sanctions as a threat to their corporate strategy, and their possible reactions aimed at adjusting to a changing environment due to the geopolitical shock. Our research, based on a recent survey of manufacturing companies, provides evidence that over the last decade Russian manufacturing firms have become much more integrated into the global economy than is commonly assumed, through foreign direct investment, foreign trade (including imports of both technological equipment and raw materials and components), international partnerships, and by extensively supplying foreign companies that operate in Russia. Considering the self-selection effect of the top-performing firms in terms of foreign trade, we can state that sanctions could prove most harmful not only for the targeted firms, but for the entire population of betterperforming and globalized firms involved in foreign trade with the EU and Ukraine. Thus, the impact of the sanctions on the prospects of the Russian manufacturing sector may be very strong over the medium-to-long term.

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“…1 Soft budgets imply that over-employment has survived, while a large part of Russians live with wages that are barely enough to cover basic expenditures (Remington 2011;Rimashevskaya 2010). In manufacturing many workers had to face a cut in their wages as a consequence of the economic crisis in 2008-2009 due to the fact that management did not reduce the number of employees (Kuznetsov et al 2011). In effect, some features of the Soviet system have survived the reform measures from the 1990s, which explains why a large part of the Russian workforce is still employed in unprofitable large scale enterprises.…”

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Policies Against Poverty in Russia – A Female Responsibility

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This article analyses how social policies in Russia can give poor people opportunities to improve their life situations given the persisting norms of a moral and practical female responsibility for social welfare. Women working in the social sphere have created their own support networks for helping people to take part in state programmes and to become entitled to support in one way or the other. Their agenda is clearly larger than the directives they might be subject to from above. They use relations to create resources. Analysing the agency of women who are professionally working in the social sphere supports distinguishing their potential roles of empowering the poor from their controlling roles. Empirical data are based on qualitative interviews with social work experts, social workers, social pedagogues at schools, teachers, doctor's assistants, local politicians and deputies of commissions or local village councils in two Russian regions.

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“…16 So budgets imply that over-employment has survived, while a large part of Russians live with wages that are barely enough to cover basic expenditures (Remington 2011;Rimashevskaya 2010;Soutworth 2006). In manufacturing, many workers had to face a cut in their wages as a consequence of the economic crisis in 2008-2009, due to the fact that management did not reduce the number of employees (Kuznetsov et al 2011). is also means that local authorities have to deal with the fact that the level of welfare remains low for the vast majority of the local population (Wegren 2011).…”

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Women in Local Politics in Russia: Coping with Poverty and Strategies for Development

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In historical continuation from the Soviet Union, social policy is predominantly a female responsibility. e present article focuses on women in local politics, who have an important role in local change, and who; among others, cope with poverty and try to solve reasons and consequences of poverty. Based on interviews and observations, the article shows how women's entrepreneurial skills of handling various shortcomings in the Soviet system are re ected in their present strategies for social development in local contexts in Russia. While the state leadership decides about reforms, setting new formal rules, local politicians develop their own routines and strategies. Being responsible for organising social welfare, interviewed female politicians told about how they use di erent strategies. is means that adopted practices are likely to be more heterogeneous than before. It seems important to both rely on useful norms inherited from the Soviet time, while also developing strategies based on new possibilities, arising as a result of reforms. e empirical data is based on interviews from three minor communities in one Russian region, conducted in 2002 to 2012.

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Russian Manufacturing Revisited: Industrial Enterprises at the Start of the Crisis

Cited by 31 publications

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Perception of risks associated with economic sanctions: the case of Russian manufacturing

Perception of risks associated with economic sanctions: the case of Russian manufacturing

Policies Against Poverty in Russia – A Female Responsibility

Women in Local Politics in Russia: Coping with Poverty and Strategies for Development

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