ABSTRACT
This chapter compares the research findings with a variety of other researchers who have explored the functioning of east-west enterprises in the post-Soviet Russian business environment to find points of agreement and difference. It leads us to possible conclusions about the formation of trust in this particular cultural melting pot. The chapter builds the theory on those factors that create or destroy trust in east-west relationships within Russian-western enterprises in Russia. However, the westerners do still harbour some suspicions, as evidenced in the Moose joint venture, of local bureaucrats being anti-western business. In the Moose joint venture, while many of the Russian staff employed in the enterprise reflected this tendency, at the more senior levels, the managers were generally at least 45, but often much older. Moose also raises a question mark over the true prevalence of the supposedly all-powerful old Soviet networks.
