Small business collective action and its effects on administrative modernization in Putin's Russia : from 'grabbing hand' to 'helping hand'?

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, epidemic corruption hindered Russia's economic performance. At the grassroots level, low-level administrative agents preyed on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), exploiting Russia's ever-changing and loophole-ridden legal codes to extort rents from...

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Main Author: Aitchison, Brian
Published: London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.631554