Guroff / Carstensen Entrepreneurship in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5528-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

This multidisciplinary study of entrepreneurship in Russian society from the sixteenth to the twentieth century demonstrates the crucial influence of central government on economic initiative.

Originally published in 1983.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Guroff, Gregory

Carstensen, Fred V.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Preface, pg. ix
I. Russian and Soviet Entrepreneursbip in a Comparative Context, pg. 1
II. The Russian Entrepreneur in the Tsarist Period: An Overview, pg. 13
III. Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship In Sixteenth!Seventeenth- Century Russia, pg. 27
IV. Enterpreneurship and the Structure of Enterprise in Russia, 1800-1880, pg. 59
V. Socializing for Modernization in a Multiethnic Elite, pg. 84
VI. Notes on Jewish Entrepreneursbip in Tsarist Russia, pg. 104
VII. The Economic Policy of the Tsarist Government and Enterprise in Russia from the End of the Nineteenth through the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, pg. 125
VIII. Foreign Participation in Russian Economic Life: Notes on British Enterprise, 1865-1914, pg. 140
IX. Russian Industrialists during World War I: The Interaction of Economics and Politics, pg. 159
X. Entrepreneurship in the Soviet Period: An Overview, pg. 191
XI. The Red-Expert Debate: Continuities in the State- Entrepreneur Tension, pg. 201
XII. Institutional Innovation and Economic Management: The Soviet Incentive System, 1921 to the Present, pg. 223
XIII. The Soviet Farm Manager as an Entrepreneur, pg. 258
XIV. The Party as Manager and Entrepreneur, pg. 284
XV. Organizing for Technological Innovation in the 1980s, pg. 306
XVI. Economic Innovation in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union: Observations, pg. 347
The Contributors, pg. 361
Index, pg. 363