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Zur institutionellen Steuerbarkeit von produktivem Unternehmertum im Transformationsprozess Russlands

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  • Petrick, Martin

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Der Transformationsprozess Russlands von einer zentralstaatlich geplanten Volkswirtschaft hin zu einer Marktwirtschaft nach westlichem Vorbild liefert eine aufschlussreiche Fallstudie über die von William Baumol (1990) vertretene These der institutionellen Steuerbarkeit von produktivem Unternehmertum durch einen unabhängigen und wohlmeinenden Staat (Journal of Political Economy 98, S. 893-921). Entgegen Baumols Annahme von der Konstanz des Unternehmertums in Raum und Zeit gibt es empirische und historische Hinweise, dass die Verbreitung von unternehmerischen Eigenschaften und Verhalten in Russland deutlich geringer ist als in anderen Ländern. Im Transformationsprozess nahmen politische Unternehmer nicht nur aktiv an der Ausgestaltung der institutionellen Regeln teil (etwa bei der Privatisierung von Staatsunternehmen), sondern schufen sich durch stark vertikal integrierte Industrieverbünde von ihnen selbst kontrollierte quasi-staatliche Strukturen. -- Russia's transition from a centrally planned economy towards a western-type market economy provides an instructive case study on William Baumol's (1990) hypothesis that entrepreneurship can be allocated to productive activities by appropriate institutional reforms of a benevolent government (Journal of Political Economy 98, pp. 893-921). Contrary to Baumol's assumptions of a constant entrepreneurship across time and space there is empirical and historical evidence that entrepreneurial activity in Russia has been significantly lower than in other countries. During transition, political entrepreneurs not only actively lobbied for certain institutional rules (for example in privatising state enterprises), but even created their own quasi-governmental structures by setting up strongly vertically integrated industrial clusters.

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Paper provided by Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO) in its series IAMO Discussion Papers with number 132.

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Date of creation: 2010
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Keywords: Unternehmertum; Russland; Transformationsprozess; institutionelle Steuerung; entrepreneurship; Russia; transition process; institutional reform.;

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  1. Baumol, William J, 1990. "Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 98(5), pages 893-921, October.
  2. Martin Petrick & Michael R. Carter, 2009. "Critical masses in the decollectivisation of post-Soviet agriculture," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Foundation for the European Review of Agricultural Economics, vol. 36(2), pages 231-252, June.
  3. Andrei Shleifer & Daniel Treisman, 2005. "A Normal Country: Russia After Communism," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 19(1), pages 151-174, Winter.
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