Market or mafia

The position and situation of Russian managers was in the Soviet era, and still is today, determined by the social and political environment, to a greater degree than in the West. Whilst the economic conditions are the decisive parameter of action for managers in the West and the political level develops its effect on managerial decisions in a more mediating way, in Russia political decisions determine in a very direct way the structurally presented autonomy and the modes of behaviour of company managers that are imprinted with subjective factors.