State Terror as a Management Practice
| Autor: | Natalya Vinokurova |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Public administration Incentive State (polity) Political science 0502 economics and business Business Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Production (economics) 050207 economics 050203 business & management Business history Mechanism (sociology) Communism media_common |
| Zdroj: | Enterprise & Society. 19:546-560 |
| ISSN: | 1467-2235 1467-2227 |
| Popis: | This comment, in response to Phil Scranton’s article, suggests that communist business practices differ from those adopted in the West along three dimensions: (1) the locus and degree of centralization of production decisions, (2) the mechanism for coordinating the producers’ actions, and (3) the use of state terror in shaping the workers’ and the managers’ incentives. My analysis focuses on the third dimension—state terror, which I define as workers and managers experiencing extreme penalties for failing to meet the state’s goals. I argue that business history and allied disciplines of management and economics would benefit from studying state terror as a management practice and outline several avenues for pursuing such research. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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