Economic Development in Tatarstan: Global Markets and a Russian Region

Leo McCann

RoutledgeCurzon, 2005 - Business & Economics - 205 pages

Based on extensive original research in the Republic of Tatarstan, in the Central Volga region of Russia, this book examines the economic development path followed by Tatarstan since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Russian financial crash of 1998. It argues that the roles of global capitalism and globalization are somewhat exaggerated in much contemporary academic literature. In the case of Tatarstan, a strong state role, tightly knit local elite networks, and the inheritance of the Soviet political and industrial systems are the most important socio-economic formations in explaining the region's development.

About the author

Leo McCann is Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Cardiff Business School. Having completed his PhD on postsocialist development in Tatarstan, Russia at the University of Kent, he has gone on to examine the transformation of employment relations in other societies, including the UK, USA and Japan. He is currently working on a book on organizational change and middle managers in these three countries.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Economic Development in Tatarstan: Global Markets and a Russian Region; Volume 4 of RoutledgeCurzon contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series
• Author: Leo McCann
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005
• ISBN: 0415314801, 9780415314800
• Length: 205 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development; History / Asia / Central Asia; History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union