1st Edition

Building Big Business in Russia The Impact of Informal Corporate Governance Practices

By Yuko Adachi Copyright 2010
208 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the development of big business in Russia since the onset of market oriented reform in the early 1990s. It explains how privatized post-Soviet enterprises, many of which made little sense as business units, were transformed into functional firms able to operate in the environment of a market economy. It provides detailed case studies of three key companies – Yukos Oil Company,... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Russia’s Corporate Governance Abuses  3. Turning Post-Soviet Enterprises into Business Firms  4. Yukos: Building a Coherent Vertically Integrated Company  5. SibAl (RusAl): Regional Smelter to a Leading World Company  6. Norilsk Nickel: Development of a Former State Concern 

Biography

Yuko Adachi is Associate Professor in the Department of Russian Studies, Sophia University, Japan.