ABSTRACT
There is no such thing as Soviet management: management in Soviet times simply meant bosses picking up the phone to get things sorted out!
V. Khasbulatov, entrepreneur, owner of factories and co-operatives, ex-convict
The discussion around the business plan has led me to think that the Russians fully understand at a conceptual level the technological and qualitative requirements of market competition but are prevented from putting them into practice. This is also the cause of deep frustration on their side: plunged into the day-by-day running of the factory, managers are forced to shelve their plans for modernisation.
