Western managers nurse a number of untested assumptions about Soviet management. The most common are:
A version of this article appeared in the November–December 1990 issue of Harvard Business Review.
What We Don’t Know About Soviet Management
Western managers nurse a number of untested assumptions about Soviet management. The most common are: 1. The Soviets know little about management. Their system has failed and failed widely. They are basically trying with very limited success to apply superior Western management methods. 2. Western and Soviet management systems are operationally incompatible. 3. The two […]
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