caa a22 4500 386373779 CHVBK 20180307112008.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S030574100001780X doi S030574100001780X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S030574100001780X Walder Andrew G. Factory and Manager in an Era of Reform [Elektronische Daten] [Andrew G. Walder] Just over three decades ago Joseph Berliner, in his book Factory and Manager in the USSR, explored the world of the socialist manager. Drawing on interviews with Soviet emigres, he illuminated a world of informal management behaviour hidden beneath the seemingly formidable confines of a highly centralized system. The Soviet manager of the 1930s and 1940s employed a number of deceptive strategies made rational by a taut system of output planning and by chronic supply shortages: hoarding of plant capacity, labour and inventories; "storming” at the end of plan periods, in order to meet quotas; neglect of customer needs in favour of products easy to produce; and an overriding concern with the procurement process, relying heavily on procuring agents (tolkachi) who employed personal connections (blat) at other plants in order to secure inputs. Despite extensive social and economic change in the Soviet Union since that time, this pattern of managerial behaviour has survived, albeit in slightly altered form, into the 1980s. Copyright © The China Quarterly 1989 The China Quarterly Cambridge University Press 118(1989-06), 242-264 0305-7410 118<242 1989 118 CQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S030574100001780X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S030574100001780X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Walder Andrew G. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The China Quarterly Cambridge University Press 118(1989-06), 242-264 0305-7410 118<242 1989 118 CQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge