Content №4 от 2006
Building a Regional Business Community: Institutional Problems
The article considers how regional business relations are being established in context of the imperfect market institutes. In Russia, the market institutions are being built within the social contacts and relations structurized into business nets that allow the business units, which are under a “bureaucracy press”, to “survive” and even make their plans for at least the near future. Using the sociological and mathematical techniques, the author classifies the economic behavior of regional enterprises. 100 semi-formal interviews, given by the top-managers of enterprises in the Kareliya Republic, constitute an empirical base of the research. Basic criteria for given classification are the following: the interviewer’s assessment of the development strategy for his/her enterprise, the interviewer’s assessment of his/her relations with business partners and a structure of the enterprise’s assets.
