How Managerial Learning Can Assist Economic Transformation in Russia

Abstract

Russian economic reform is still not effective at the institutional and individual levels, levels at which managerial learning is essential for success. In particu lar, Russian state enterprises, privatized or not, need to learn how to proceed with radical restructuring if they are to become effective. In doing this, they need to be dealt with as collectives in the Russian tradition rather than as corporations in the Western tradition. Russia also needs the managerial learn ing required to support a massive wave of entrepreneurship — especially in the creation of distribution and credit organizations. Finally, Russian managers need to be familiarized with a selected set of management skills and techniques relevant to dealing with the challenges of a competitive market, even though their skills in a number of other important management areas are fully recog nized.

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Descriptors: Russia economic transformation state enterprises collectivism managerial learning

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