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Zero sum : the arc of international business in Russia / Charles Hecker.
Lippincott Library HG5580.2.A3 H43 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hecker, Charles, author.
- Series:
- New perspectives on Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Investments, Foreign--Russia (Federation).
- Investments, Foreign.
- Business enterprises, Foreign--Russia (Federation).
- Business enterprises, Foreign.
- International business enterprises--Russia (Federation).
- International business enterprises.
- Russia (Federation)--Economic policy--1991-.
- Russia (Federation).
- Genre:
- Informational works.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 458 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2025.
- Summary:
- "When the hammer and sickle came down in late 1991, Russia's feverish new market opened for business. From banking to breweries, sectors emerged out of nowhere, in a country that had never had a functioning economy. For the next three turbulent decades, a wild, proto-capitalist free-for-all transformed Russian society. Then, in 2022, Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The market started to collapse; Western firms fled Moscow's skyscrapers. No country this large had ever transformed itself as dizzyingly as 1990s Russia--now, just as dramatically, it was over. The intervening decades had seen phenomenal successes and crushing failures; the creation and destruction of enormous fortunes. How did it all happen? Zero Sum brings to life the complex, vivid color of one of the greatest experiments in the history of global commerce. What have businesses learnt--or failed to learn--from this adventure, both about Russia and about dynamics between countries and companies in the face of relentless change?" -- Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- The phone rings
- Looking back, was it ever thus?
- The "unbreakable union"
- A borderless world arises
- The walls couldn't talk, but they could listen
- Joint adventures
- Insecurities
- Apples and oranges
- The Valerian days
- Time out
- "Who's the boss?"
- That time compliance was sexy
- You can't go home again
- Now what?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-433) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780197807187
- 0197807186
- OCLC:
- 1493674998
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