TY - JOUR

T1 - Performance Effects of Technological Dynamism

T2 - Private vs. State Enterprises in Russia

AU - Lin, Xiaohua

AU - Germain, Richard

AU - Krotov, Konstantin

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2018, © 2018 Taylor & Francis.

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - How has the privatization-led economic transition transformed Russian firms? Prior to recent economic recession caused by Western sanctions, Russia’s economic performance has been impressive, yet little is known about its micro-level sources. Particularly, while macro-level data suggests a positive effect of privatization, such effect is seldom substantiated at firm-level in Russia. To take a step towards opening the black box, we investigated the performance effect of technology dynamism in Russian firms and the extent to which ownership mattered with regards to the technology dynamism-performance link. Our survey data shows that performance is driven by IT adoption, entrepreneurial orientation, and technological turbulence in Russian firms and that the positive effects of technological turbulence are stronger for private than for state-owned Russian firms. According to our results, Russian private enterprises appear more capable of buffering and gaining from technological turmoil, suggesting that the most significant outcome of organizational transformation in Russia is the firms enhanced capability in managing external environmental dynamism.

AB - How has the privatization-led economic transition transformed Russian firms? Prior to recent economic recession caused by Western sanctions, Russia’s economic performance has been impressive, yet little is known about its micro-level sources. Particularly, while macro-level data suggests a positive effect of privatization, such effect is seldom substantiated at firm-level in Russia. To take a step towards opening the black box, we investigated the performance effect of technology dynamism in Russian firms and the extent to which ownership mattered with regards to the technology dynamism-performance link. Our survey data shows that performance is driven by IT adoption, entrepreneurial orientation, and technological turbulence in Russian firms and that the positive effects of technological turbulence are stronger for private than for state-owned Russian firms. According to our results, Russian private enterprises appear more capable of buffering and gaining from technological turmoil, suggesting that the most significant outcome of organizational transformation in Russia is the firms enhanced capability in managing external environmental dynamism.

KW - organizational change and performance

KW - private vs. state enterprises

KW - Russia

KW - technological dynamics

KW - SCOPUS

KW - SCOPUS

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UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/performance-effects-technological-dynamism-private-vs-state-enterprises-russia

U2 - 10.1080/10669868.2018.1496962

DO - 10.1080/10669868.2018.1496962

M3 - Article

VL - 25

SP - 1

EP - 25

JO - Journal of East-West Business

JF - Journal of East-West Business

SN - 1066-9868

IS - 1

ER -