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    Personal Networking in Russian Post Soviet Life

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    Authors
    Bulter, Bella
    Purchase, S.
    Date
    2004
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Butler, B. and Purchase, S.. 2004. Personal Networking in Russian Post Soviet Life. Research and Practice in Human Resource Management 12 (1): 34-60.
    Source Title
    Research and Practice in Human Resource Management
    Additional URLs
    http://rphrm.curtin.edu.au/2004/issue1/russian.html
    http://rphrm.curtin.edu.au/
    Faculty
    Curtin Business School
    School of Management
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    A link to the journal RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT is also available.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19519
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Liberalisation of the Russian economy potentially offers Western investors business engagement opportunities in an environment significantly different from Western culture. Knowledge of the institutional, managerial and contextual nuances, which include blat, is vital for the effective management of human resources, and thus, successful building of multinational enterprises. This paper gives an explanation of the meaning of blat, analyses the main features of blat as personal networking and provides some common examples of using blat. By analysing prerequisites of blat in the communist regime as well as in the conditions of the market economy, it is argued that despite the shift in the current use of blat it is ingrained in the Russian psyche, and consequently, has a strong impact on business relationships and management of human resources in Russia. Such accommodation of blat contributes into the understanding of the Russian unique set of norms and standards for doing business and practices of human resources management.

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