This book charts the experiences of a textile enterprise in Russia during the 1990s, analysing post-Soviet management and managerial practices in order to illuminate the content, nature and direction of industrial restructuring in the Russian privatised sector during the years of economic transition. Based on extensive factory-level fieldwork, it focuses upon changes in ownership, management and labour organisation, unveiling the complex texture of social, communal and gender relations in the workplace over an extended period of time, including through crisis and bankruptcy, acquisition by new capitalist owners and attempted restructuring. It argues, contrary to dominant Western managerial theories which blame the failure of transition on the irrationality of Russian managerial strategies, that the rationale for the continued reliance on Soviet era managerial practices lay in the peculiar form of social relations in the workplace which were characteristic of the Soviet system. It engages with key issues, often neglected in the literature, such as social domination, power and conflict, that capture the problematic and open-ended character of social and economic transformation in post-Soviet production. It demonstrates that far from a simple transition to a market economy, the post-Soviet transition has reproduced most of the features of the old Soviet system, including its patterns of labour relations.

Table of Contents:
1. International Organization as a Field of Research since 1910 Bob Reinalda PART I: Documentation, Data Sets and Sources 2. International Organizations: Available Information and Documentation James Church and Michael McCaffrey 3. Data Sets and Quantitative Research in the Study of Intergovernmental Organizations Erik Gartzke and Christina Schneider 4. Data and Analyses of Voting in the United Nations General Assembly Eric Voeten 5. The INGO Research Agenda: A Community Approach to Challenges in Method and Theory Elizabeth A. Bloodgood and Hans Peter Schmitz 6. Globalized Public Opinion Data: International Comparative Surveys and Regional Barometers Marta Lagos and Yun-han Chu 7. What Does Transnational History Tell Us about a World with International Organizations? The Historians’ Point of View Davide Rodogno, Shaloma Gauthier and Francesca Piana 8. International Organizations and the Idea of Equality Andrew Hurrell and Nicholas Lees 9. Between Independence and Accountability: Exploring the Legal Autonomy of International Organizations Richard Collins and Nigel D. White PART II: International Secretariats as Bureaucracies 10. International Bureaucracies from a Public Administration and International Relations Perspective Jörn Ege and Michael W. Bauer 11. Problem Solving by International Bureaucracies: The Influence of International Secretariats on World Politics Frank Biermann and Bernd Siebenhüner 12. International Bureaucracy: Organizational Structure and Behavioural Implications Jarle Trondal 13. International Organizations and their Bureaucratic Oversight Mechanisms: The Democratic Deficit, Accountability and Transparency Alexandru Grigorescu 14. Consultative and Observer Status of NGOs in Intergovernmental Organizations Felicity A. Vabulas Part III: Actors within International Bureaucracies 15. Multilateral Diplomats in the Early Twenty-First Century Yolanda Kemp Spies 16. Secretaries-General of International Organizations: Leadership Capacity and Qualities Kent J. Kille 17. The Special Representatives of the United Nations Secretary-General Manuel Fröhlich 18. Multilateral Diplomats of Central European States before and after 1989 Jacek Czaputowicz 19. The Professionalization of International Non-Governmental Organizations Wolf-Dieter Eberwein and Sabine Saurugger 20. The Values of Staff in International Organizations Simon Anderfuhren-Biget, Ursula Häfliger and Simon Hug PART IV: Processes within International Bureaucracies 21. What Is Happening to the Staff of the European Institutions? A Cross-Disciplinary View Didier Georgakakis 22. Reinvigorating the ‘Second’ United Nations: People Matter Thomas G. Weiss 23. The Role and Power of the Chairs in International Organizations Spyros Blavoukos and Dimitris Bourantonis 24. International Organizations and Crisis Management Eva-Karin Olsson and Bertjan Verbeek 25. Informal Norms: Shaping Behavior in International Negotiations Heidi Hardt 26. From Internationalization to Internalization: Spirals of Contentions Jean-Frédéric Morin and María Martín-de-Almagro 27. Learning in International Organizations Thorsten Benner, Steffen Eckhard and Philipp Rotmann PART V: Challenges to International Organizations 28. Reforming the United Nations Security Council: Proposals, Strategies and Preferences Thomas Dörfler and Madeleine O. Hosli 29. The Need for Rethinking the United Nations: Modernizing through Civil Society John E. Trent 30. The Use, Effectiveness, and Unintended Consequences of Economic Sanctions by Intergovernmental Organizations Dursun Peksen 31. Public-Private Voluntary Initiatives: Enlisting Corporations for the Provision of Public Goods Patrick Bernhagen and Kelly Kollman 32. The Politics of Inter-Regionalism: Relations between International Regional Organizations Anna van der Vleuten and Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann 33. International Organizations in Asia and the Pacific Tomoko Akami and Jiri Okamoto PART VI: Expanding International Architectures 34. International Judicial Institutions in International Relations: Functions, Authority and Legitimacy Armin von Bogdandy and Ingo Venzke35. The Global Human Mobility Architecture Raquel Freitas 36. The Architecture of International Monetary and Financial Governance Dries Lesage 37. The Global Trade Architecture: An Expanding Agenda in Times of Fragmentation Monserrat González Garibay 38. Multilateralism under Transformation: International Organizations and ‘Clubs’ Mélanie Albaret