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Russian big business facing challenges of the global crisis
https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2013-5-40-55
Abstract
The article addresses factors that allowed large Russian companies to withstand the economic crisis, as well as prospects for their business expansion in the post-crisis setting. While anti-crisis policies adopted by Russian government supported big business substantially during the first months of the recession, they hardly played any pro-business role since mid-2009. The analysis of capitalization figures and sales volumes shows that leading positions of state-owned companies in oil, gas and financial sectors were in fact strengthened during the crisis. Excessive state control over corporate assets and decision-making works as a barrier to post-crisis recovery of large Russian companies and should be substituted for by policies supporting internationalization strategies and productivity improvements.
About the Authors
S. Afontsev
Institute for World Economy and International Relations (Moscow, Russia)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
S. J. Lee
Kookmin University (Seoul, Republic of Korea)
Korea, Republic of
Korea, Republic of
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Afontsev S., Lee S.J. Russian big business facing challenges of the global crisis. Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2013;(5):40-55. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2013-5-40-55
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