The barefoot shoemaker : capitalizing on the new Russia / Vladimir Kvint in collaboration with Natalia Darialova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kvint, V. L. (Vladimir Lʹvovich)

Contributor:

Darʹi︠a︡lova, Natalʹi︠a︡.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investments, American--Former Soviet republics.

Investments, American.

Investments, Foreign--Former Soviet republics.

Investments, Foreign.

Investments, American--Russia (Federation).

Business enterprises, Foreign.

Russia (Federation).

Investments, Foreign--Russia (Federation).

Business enterprises, Foreign--Former Soviet republics.

Business enterprises, Foreign--Russia (Federation).

Physical Description:

xii, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Arcade Pub. : Distributed by Little, Brown, [1993]

Summary:

Russian capitialism. A contradiction in terms? The country's ravenous consumer markets, unlimited natural wealth, and inexpensive but highly skilled labor force make the new Russia's economic promise appear as vast as its territory. But daunting paradoxes abound: labor shortages and high unemployment exist side by side; the economy is wracked by both inflation and deflation; dazzling native entrepreneurial talent runs up against stone-age bureaucratic practices. Under their new leaders, the former Soviet republics are hurrying to privatize industries and open every possible door to foreign investment, but decades of isolation, paranoia, and inefficiency have created a business culture only an insider can explain. Nobody knows this culture and all of its paradoxes better than Vladimir Kvint, who, as an insider in business communities East and West, occupies a unique position. Currently a professor of international business at Fordham University, and a consultant at Arthur Andersen as well as to a dozen Fortune 500 companies, Kvint is Siberian by birth and capitalist by temperament. He has worked in mines and on construction sites, helped run a Soviet factory, and advised Kremlin leaders about industrial programs. Among the first to predict (in a Forbes magazine article) the Soviet Union's collapse, Kvint was also one of the earliest proponents of joint ventures between Russia and the West. He has explored most of Siberia and the Russian Far East, gathering priceless data about those mineral-rich expanses that has helped guide both giant companies and individual investors to profit. Kvint's inside information makes The Barefoot Shoemaker the most valuable introduction to Russian businesson the market, and his honest and often hilarious portraits of Russian business people from across the spectrum - ministers to black marketeers, workaholic factory managers to shameless bribe takers - make it the most colorful. Kvint gives us the full flavor of Russian business, and locates what is timeless and unchanging about the way it gets done. Russia and the other former Soviet republics are open for business: that much we know. But to capitialize on and in this new Klondike, outsiders will need an expert guide. The Barefoot Shoemaker will enlighten, enrich, and entertain the general reader as well as the potential investor, big or small.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

155970182X :

OCLC:

25048046