‘Znakomstva I Svyazi’ (Acquaintances and connections) – Blat, the Soviet Union, and mundane entrepreneurship

By A. Rehn, Saara L. Taalas. 2004

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Political Science and International Relations

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All you need is trust? A critical review of the trust and entrepreneurship literature (2012, background): “In contrast, others argue that the necessity to rely on informal networks in socialist everyday life and the ideology of mutual solidarity have supported the development of personal trust between strangers (e.g. Rehn and Taalas, 2004).”
Institutional Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Behavior in Challenging Environments (2011, background): “During the Soviet period, “blat” was an integral part of the everyday lives of Soviet citizens (Rehn and Taalas 2004; Ledeneva 1998).”
Challenges for spatially oriented entrepreneurship research (2011, background): “Many authors analyse the distinctiveness of Soviet and post-Soviet entrepreneurship (Roman 1991 ; Hisrich and Grachev 1993 ; Tan 2001 ; Sennikova 2002 ; Rehn and Taalas 2004 ; Hisrich, Bowser, and Smarsh 2006 ).”
Conceptualising entrepreneurship in a transition context (2006, background): “…definitional issues concerning the nature of entrepreneurship, which they interpret as a ‘search for opportunities and beneficial outcomes in economic interactions’ (Rehn and Taalas, 2004,p.246) which, through necessity, made most citizens of the USSR Entrepreneurial, in the Rehn and Tallas sense.”
Rapid Institutional Shifts and the Co–evolution of Entrepreneurial Firms in Transition Economies (2010, background): “To be successful in Russian business, entrepreneurs would be wise to build relationships with government and key big businesspeople such as Russia’s oligarchs (Guriev & Rachinsky, 2005; Rehn & Taalas, 2004).”
The dynamics of entrepreneurs’ networks in a transitioning economy: the case of Russia (2006, background): “The market transition has brought some changes in the way in which the Russians build personal networks – svyazi and mobilize them for business and personal goals (Ledeneva 1998 , Rehn and Taalas 2004 ).”
Contextualizing Entrepreneurship—Conceptual Challenges and Ways Forward (2011, background): “…influence of single informal institutions such as religion on entrepreneurship (e.g., Drakopoulou Dodd & Seaman, 1998) and studies that look at entrepreneurship in nonfamiliar (country) contexts (e.g., Aidis, Welter, Smallbone, & Isakova, 2007; Rehn & Taalas, 2004; Smallbone & Welter, 2001, 2009).”
Tackling the hidden enterprise culture: Government policies to support the formalization of informal entrepreneurship (2012, background): “…on criminal entrepreneurship has begun to document the illegitimate acts conducted by entrepreneurs (Fournier 1998; Deutschmann 2001; Friman 2001; Rehn and Taalas 2004; Armstrong 2005; Jones and Spicer 2005, 2006; Sköld and Rehn 2007; Smith 2007; Storr and Butkevich 2007; Frith and McElwee…”
Entrepreneurship and the Informal Economy: An Overview (2010, unknown): “However, since the turn of the millennium, this re-representation of the informal economy has also spread to both post-Soviet economies (Chavdarova, 2005; Rehn and Taalas, 2004; Roberts and Tholen, 1999; Round et al., 2008; Williams, 2008a, 2009a; Williams and Round, 2007) as well as the western wor”