The life of Russian business (re)cognizing, (re)activating and (re)configuring institutions / edited by Tomas Casas i Klett, Yuliya Ponomareva.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction.-- Acknowledgments.-- Section I: Markets and Macro Perspectives.-- Introduction.-- Chapter 1: No Size Fits All.-- Chapter 2: Quo Vadis Russian Economy?.-- Chapter 3: Russia, Perfect Partner?.-- Chapter 4: Import Substitution.-- Chapter 5: Human Capital or Encumbrance?.-- Chapter 6: Russian Healthcare.-- Chapter 7: Russian Cities.-- Chapter 8: Russia as an Agrifood Superpower?.-- Chapter 9: Bumper Harvests Beat Soviet Production Records.-- Chapter 10: Russian Steel Chapter 11: The End of Oil Rent, Not of the Oil Age.-- Chapter 12: Coal.-- Section II: Strategy and Governance.-- Introduction.-- Chapter 1: Don't Swim With or Against the Current.-- Chapter 2: Evolve or Become Extinct.-- Chapter 3: How Brusnika Is Reshaping Real Estate Development in Russia.-- Chapter 4: A Khabarovsk Shopping Mall Venture.-- Chapter 5: Building an LNG Tank in the Russian Arctic.-- Chapter 6: Sustainable Russia.-- Chapter 7: Unilever's Zero Non-Hazardous Waste Strategy.-- Chapter 8: Enabling Russian Boards.-- Chapter 9: Corporate Diversification and Value Creation.-- Chapter 10: Independence in Russia's Finance Industry?.-- Chapter 11: High Net Worth Individuals in Russia.-- Chapter 12: Troika Dialog's Investment Banking Journey.-- Section III: Innovation and Entrepreneurship.-- Introduction.-- Chapter 1: Technology-Based Entrepreneurship in Russia.-- Chapter 2: Foreign R & D Investment in Russia.-- Chapter 3: The Winning Strategies of Russian SMEs.-- Chapter 4: Atlantis-Pak.-- Chapter 5: SPLAT's Leap of Faith.-- Chapter 6: Neurosoft.-- Chapter 7: SPIRIT DSP Software.-- Chapter 8: Venture Capital in Russia.-- Chapter 9: Russia at the Heart of Cybercrime Prevention Chapter 10: How to Sell Roses?Chapter 11: The Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF).-- Section IV: Internationalization, Outbound, and Inbound.-- Introduction.-- Chapter 1: How to Do Business in Russia.-- Chapter 2: Russia's Pivot Towards Asia.-- Chapter 3: Fighting for Every Cent and Fen.-- Chapter 4: One Tight Belt, One Hard Road.-- Chapter 5: Russian Speaking Latvians.-- Chapter 6: The Enchanted Generation.-- Chapter 7: Lighting Technologies and the India Connection.-- Chapter 8: Cooling Off the World With Evapolar.-- Chapter 9: Argus-Spectrum Securing the Future.-- Chapter 10: Manufacturing in Russia Chapter 11: Russia Is About Business.--Section V: Leadership.-- Introduction.-- Chapter 1: Authoritarian Business Leadership.-- Chapter 2: Seven Delusions of Russian Business Leaders.-- Chapter 3: The Russian Inability to Communicate.-- Chapter 4: "I'm the Manager, You're the Fool".-- Chapter 5: Culture First.-- Chapter 6: Banya Leadership.-- Chapter 7: Culture and Negotiations.-- Chapter 8: Sales Leadership From an Israeli Russian.-- Chapter 9: Leadership Development.-- Chapter 10: Developing a New Generation of Leaders for Russia.

The mainstream perception of Russian business today is framed by images of wild capitalism and a Dutch-diseased resource-dependent economy with poorly functioning rules and institutions. Despite the continued relevance of these issues in the current environment, readers of this book will discover that business in Russia has undergone a remarkable transformation. Important characteristics of the contemporary Russian business climate include the rise of a new generation of Russian business leaders and entrepreneurs, a variety of innovative and adaptive business strategies developed to respond to the increasingly VUCA world, a confident middle class with significant purchasing power, as well as a surprising level of integration in the world economy, including increasingly with China and its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). These evolving developments have received little attention from researchers and practitioners. This book has been written by Russian experts and thought leaders to address this knowledge gap. The five sections provide a diverse but integrated set of opinion pieces, analyses and cases about Russian business covering markets and macro perspectives, strategy and governance, innovation and entrepreneurship, internationalization and leadership. The aim is to overcome preconceptions by illustrating the underreported and multifaceted nature of the life of Russian business and take the reader closer to what is really happening on the ground. The book contains more than 50 contributions from 54 authors representing opinion leaders in Russia and abroad including prominent academics and businessmen. The Life of Russian Business is aimed at practitioners, policy-makers and educators, as well as those generally interested in Russia. By disseminating state-of-the-art insights on Russian decision-makers and institutions, the book ultimately delivers a well informed and balanced guide for those wishing to participate in Russia’s economy.