The Effect of Corporate Group Succession on the Intra-Group Transaction According to Business Groups, Outside Directors, and Financial Factors

The International Labour Organization in Beirut has been running a project in the Palestinian Camps of Nahr El Bared and Ein El Helweh entitled “Palestinian Women Economic Empowerment Initiative”. The project started in 2011 and targets lowincome Palestinian women entrepreneurs through a threefold strategy: giving out loans and grants to women business groups in order to expand their businesses; training women entrepreneurs to enhance their business skills; and building the capacity of support organizations in order to improve business development services for women entrepreneurs and training them to be formally certified to deliver business group formation training. The project builds on the potential of business groups in assuring the protection of Palestinian women entrepreneurs from risks through resilience, pooling of resources, and collective voice. The objectives are to assure a sustainable livelihood for Palestinian women entrepreneurs through supporting them in expanding their businesses beyond survivalist low-income activities

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External Factors of Big Business Transformation in Russia

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2005-10-72-89 ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 72-89 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ya. Pappe ◽

Ya. Galukhina

Keyword(s):

Financial Market ◽

Capital Market ◽

Business Groups ◽

External Factors ◽

Big Business ◽

Business Transformation ◽

Global Standards ◽

The World ◽

Principal Subject

The paper is devoted to the role of the global financial market in the development of Russian big business. It proves that terms and standards posed by this market as well as opportunities it offers determine major changes in Russian big business in the last three years. The article examines why Russian companies go abroad to attract capital and provides data, which indicate the scope of this phenomenon. It stresses the effects of Russian big business’s interaction with the world capital market, including the modification of the principal subject of Russian big business from integrated business groups to companies and the changes in companies’ behavior: they gradually move away from the so-called Russian specifics and adopt global standards.

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Business-groups in Russian industries

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2004-5-121-134 ◽

2004 ◽

pp. 121-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

S. Avdasheva

Keyword(s):

Industrial Organization ◽

Economic System ◽

Institutional Economics ◽

Business Groups ◽

Control Rights ◽

Organization And Management ◽

Russian Economy ◽

Main Determinants ◽

Soviet Economic System

The chapter of “Institutional Economics” textbook is devoted to the development of business-groups as a specific feature of industrial organization in the Russian economy. The main determinants of forming and functioning of business-groups such as allocation of property rights in Soviet enterprises, networks of directors and executive authorities in the Soviet economic system as well as import of new institutes and inefficient state enforcement are in the center of analysis. Origins, structure, organization and management within the groups and the role of shareholding and informal control rights are considered.

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