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Oriflame CIS: The Successful Evolution of a Regional Subsidiary’s Mandate

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  • Igor Gurkov

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What role can collective action by foreign investors play in an environment characterized by incomplete institutions? We study this question by looking on foreign business associations in the Russian Federation. By interviewing 17 foreign business associations and conducting an online survey of their member firms, we find that business associations play an important welfare-enhancing role in providing a series of support and informational services. However, they do not play a significant role in lobbying the collective interests of their member firms, especially in the current political context in Russia where since the start of the Ukraine crisis the business community seems to have suffered a general loss of influence on political decision making

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  • Igor Gurkov, 2016. "Oriflame CIS: The Successful Evolution of a Regional Subsidiary’s Mandate," HSE Working papers WP BRP 50/MAN/2016, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
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    Keywords

    multinational corporations; Russia; subsidiary mandate; foreign direct investments;
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    • F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
    • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity

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