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Hidden Champions of Russia

verfasst von : Irina I. Skorobogatykh, Olga V. Saginova, Zhanna B. Musatova

Erschienen in: Hidden Champions in CEE and Turkey

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Overview
Official name:
Russian Federation
Type of government:
Federation
Population in 2011:
142,960,000
Land area:
16,376,870 km2
History
1917/1922
The Soviets seize control of the government in the October Revolution in 1917 Nationalization of land and all businesses.
1922
(December) The Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is set up by the Russian Communist Party.
1929/1939
A period of massive industrialization. Joseph Stalin assumes full-control over Russian society.
1941/1945
World War II, in which the Soviet Union loses around 27 million people.
1945/1989
Cold War period, in which the Soviet Union dominates the Warsaw Pact and faces off the United States in a number of conflicts, including the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
1989/1991
The breakup of the Soviet Union leads to the restoration of the Baltic republics. The Georgian SSR and the Moldavian SSR start seeking greater autonomy. End of the USSR and formation of the Russian Federation in December 1991.
1993
(Autumn) Yeltsin’s dispute with parliament resolved by bringing tanks to the Russian White House. Subsequently, Yeltsin imposes the current Russian constitution with strong presidential powers.
1994/1998
Economic reforms consolidate a semi-criminal oligarchy and result in a deep depression and financial crash in 1998.
2000/2008
Vladimir Putin appointed Prime Minister. Under his governance Russia's economic development surpasses that of most other resource-rich countries.

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Fußnoten
1
This fact is important for our project because the majority of leaders of Hidden Champions in Russia were educated at leading Russian universities with long histories of educational programmes.
 
2
Perestroika is the period from 1986 to 1991, initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of Soviet Union Communist Party. Its main aim was to renovate and rebuild the economic, political, and social mechanism of the Soviet Union.
 
3
Facts and figures about the Russian economy from the official site of Ministry of Economic Development http://​www.​economy.​gov.​ru
 
5
Domestic consumption steadily grew in the 2000s as the average disposable income doubled during the last decade. However, disposable income grew faster than productivity and pensions and salaries in the civil service were significantly increased, which hit the economy like a boomerang in the following years.
 
6
The authors would like to thank for their contribution and help: Ekaterina Okhmatovskaya—student at Plekhanov Graduate School (International Marketing Management program), and Daria Barillo—4th year student (Bachelor level) at the Marketing Department of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. They collected secondary data about HCs in Russia, organized interviews with Russian companies identified as HCs, and participated in some interviews. We also would like to thank Pavel Lebedev (MBA, consultant, Academy of National Economy, Moscow, Russia), and Timur Atnashev (Academy of National Economy, coordinator of IMTA alumni in Russia) who helped build Russia's HC database and collect some facts about the development of Russia's economy at the very beginning of the project.
 
8
An offshore software service is provision of software development services by an external supplier positioned in a country that is geographically remote from the client enterprise; a type of offshore outsourcing (http://​en.​wikipedia.​org/​wiki/​Offshore_​software).
 
9
“IT outsourcing” is a phrase used to describe the practice of seeking resources—or subcontracting—outside of an organizational structure for all or part of an IT (Information Technology) function (http://​www.​webopedia.​com/​TERM/​I/​IT_​outsourcing.​html).
 
11
The formal name of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.
 
13
Maximum Take Off Weight (MTOW) of more than 20 tonnes.
 
14
Effective helicopters means good value for money.
 
17
They shared the Nobel Prize with Ernst Ruska who first designed an electron microscope.
 
Literatur
Zurück zum Zitat Skorobogatykh, I. (2011). Relationship marketing for networking of actors in the luxury industry (Summary of Doctoral Thesis, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. Moscow, Russia). Skorobogatykh, I. (2011). Relationship marketing for networking of actors in the luxury industry (Summary of Doctoral Thesis, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. Moscow, Russia).
Metadaten
Titel
Hidden Champions of Russia
verfasst von
Irina I. Skorobogatykh
Olga V. Saginova
Zhanna B. Musatova
Copyright-Jahr
2013
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40504-4_18

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