ABSTRACT
We have seen over the last few chapters that our case-study enterprises, even those which have been incorporated into foreign-owned multinational corporations, retain many of the managerial structures and practices and much of the organisational culture of traditional soviet enterprises. The question that we would like to address in conclusion is that of whether this is evidence for the consolidation of a specifically Russian ‘variety of capitalism’ which is able to harness soviet traditions to the profitable employment of labour, or whether this is an expression of the unstable coexistence of incompatible principles in which the soviet legacies will be progressively liquidated as capital consolidates its hold over production in Russia.
