What strategies do Russian entrepreneurial leaders use to make their businesses competitive?

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dc.contributorAalto Universityen
dc.contributorAalto-yliopistofi
dc.contributor.advisorFey, Carl F.
dc.contributor.authorElagin, Alexander
dc.contributor.departmentJohtamisen laitosfi
dc.contributor.schoolKauppakorkeakoulufi
dc.contributor.schoolSchool of Businessen
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-21T16:03:22Z
dc.date.available2019-07-21T16:03:22Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractDue to a highly volatile economic situation, lack of governmental support and young age of market economy, Russia still lags behind western economies in terms of small business development and their contribution to the economy. A large share of Russian companies still employs an authoritarian style of leadership, that was commonly used in the Soviet Union. Still, there are plenty of entrepreneurs who have been able to keep their businesses competitive in a rapidly changing and highly volatile environment of a modern Russian market. They are efficient entrepreneurs who are able to run long-term businesses despite being raised with Soviet authoritarian style of leadership around them and having no business-related education. My research is focused on studying three case companies - three Russian entrepreneurial leaders to find out what strategies do they use to keep their businesses competitive in this volatile environment. Beyond that, I try to study the way Russian entrepreneurial leaders view and understand leadership, what kind of relationships they build with their employees and how different are they from entrepreneurial leaders defined in western business literature. The results show that despite lack of business education and Soviet background, studied entrepreneurs are quite similar to the western scholars’ view on modern entrepreneurial leaders. Their leadership styles naturally evolved to become open, unlike authoritarian leadership still used in many Russian companies.en
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dc.identifier.urihttps://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/39324
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:aalto-201907214386
dc.language.isoenen
dc.locationP1 Ifi
dc.programmeManagement and International Business (MIB)en
dc.subject.keywordentrepreneurial leadershipen
dc.subject.keywordentrepreneurshipen
dc.subject.keywordleadershipen
dc.subject.keywordRussiaen
dc.subject.keywordstrategyen
dc.titleWhat strategies do Russian entrepreneurial leaders use to make their businesses competitive?en
dc.typeG2 Pro gradu, diplomityöfi
dc.type.ontasotMaster's thesisen
dc.type.ontasotMaisterin opinnäytefi
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local.aalto.openaccessyes
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