Papers by Olga Kuznetsova
Europe-Asia Studies, 2017
Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation
The globalisation of the labour market creates new challenges for organisations when hiring. This... more The globalisation of the labour market creates new challenges for organisations when hiring. This article addresses one such challenge that is rarely in the spotlight: the implications of the choice of a language proficiency test for non-native speakers by the hiring organisation. We use the UK National Health Service (NHS) recruitment practices as an example. With the help of a staged experiment, this practice-based study argues that the current international recruitment procedure to the NHS tends to underestimate some important differences between language as a formalised system of words and grammatical rules and discourse as ‘language in action’, causing the loss of staffing capacity. It follows from our analysis that when setting the requirements and objectives of a language test, the recruiting organisations need to consider more explicitly the social and cultural context in which their employees operate and the impact of this context on the communication demands faced by the s...
Work organisation, labour & globalisation Volume 16, Number 2,, 2022
The globalisation of the labour market creates new challenges for organisations when hiring. This... more The globalisation of the labour market creates new challenges for organisations when hiring. This article addresses one such challenge that is rarely in the spotlight: the implications of the choice of a language proficiency test for non-native speakers by the hiring organisation. We use the UK National Health Service (NHS) recruitment practices as an example. With the help of a staged experiment, this practice-based study argues that the current international recruitment procedure to the NHS tends to underestimate some important differences between language as a formalised system of words and grammatical rules and discourse as 'language in action', causing the loss of staffing capacity. It follows from our analysis that when setting the requirements and objectives of a language test, the recruiting organisations need to consider more explicitly the social and cultural context in which their employees operate and the impact of this context on the communication demands faced by the staff.
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2012
Effective property rights protection plays a fundamental role in promoting economic performance. ... more Effective property rights protection plays a fundamental role in promoting economic performance. Yet measurement problems make the relationship between property rights and entrepreneurship an ambig...
Organizational Strategy and Technological Adaptation to Global Change, 1998
This paper addresses a major and yet under-researched issue of the disciplinary mechanism in corp... more This paper addresses a major and yet under-researched issue of the disciplinary mechanism in corporate systems of transition economies with a particular emphasis on Russia. The importance of this issue follows from the fact that privatization and hence creation of corporations is the core process in the institutional restructuring in the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS. The successes of privatization in terms of the absolute decrease in the number of state-owned enterprises and the growing share of privatized firms in GNP are often interpreted as the most important indication of advance towards a market economy. This has important practical implications too. For instance, progress in privatization is an important element of conditionality on assistance provided by international financial institutions (Ners, 1995).
International Social Science Journal
The paper explores conceptually the process of relevance discovery prompted by a major alteration... more The paper explores conceptually the process of relevance discovery prompted by a major alteration in the institutional settings that have caused a radical change in the existing management knowledge paradigm as new mostly "imported" knowledge replaces the "old" knowledge base. This situation puts significant pressure on a particular group of experts designated in the literature as "knowledge gatekeepers". Their role is particularly important when external information requires contextual interpretation in order to be considered useful by other members of the social group. The paper focuses on recontextualisation as a critical element of relevance discovery and the transformation of "imported" knowledge from irrelevant to relevant and analyses the factors that influence the ability of knowledge gatekeepers to cope with the task of contextualisation. An account of two field studies of post-communist marketisation is used to illustrate the challenges of contextualisation.
Post-Communist Economies, 2012
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013
International Studies of Management and Organization, 2012
Higher Education Quarterly, 2011
Understanding what constitutes the perceived value of foreign education to international business... more Understanding what constitutes the perceived value of foreign education to international business students is critical for business schools in order to achieve their recruitment targets. One established method relies on a financial interpretation of the costs and benefits of ...
Employee Relations, 2011
Purpose-To investigate labour market practices in a transition economy in relation to broader ins... more Purpose-To investigate labour market practices in a transition economy in relation to broader institutional configurations Design/methodology/approach-Through a review of relevant literature and the analysis of statistical data the paper reveals some specific factors influencing labour market practices in a transition economy Findings-We establish a link between inefficient enforcement and the emergence of compensating institutional arrangements on the one side and the unusually broad implementation of flexible working time and flexible pay on the other as a crucial factor that made the stabilisation of employment in Russia possible. Originality/value-We reveal how a formal regulatory system, which on the face of it is similar to what is a norm in the majority of European countries, may coexist with a distinctive labour market model and explore issues of relevance to academics, policy-makers, human resource managers, employers and employees.
(Moscow), Chair of the Board of Directors of the investment bank Eurofinances, Head of the Commit... more (Moscow), Chair of the Board of Directors of the investment bank Eurofinances, Head of the Committee on Financial Markets and Banking Sector of the Russian Chamber of Commerce, Member of the Board of the National Securities Market Association. Prof.Y. Mirkin authored a number of national programmes on the development of the financial market in Russia; he is one of the foremost national educators in the field of capital markets, who played a leading role in establishing this educational and research field in Russia. Among his numerous publications are Russian Securities Market:
Journal of International Business Studies, 2014
Our study engages evidence from a University and College Union branch archive to explore developm... more Our study engages evidence from a University and College Union branch archive to explore developments in employee relations (ER) that reflect the organisational effects of marketisation of UK universities. The evidence exposes points of strain in ER at a level of professional divide between managers and academics, and helps to understand their roots in the context of universities as organisational hybrids. Our investigation reveals the failure of ER to adapt to increasingly conflict-ridden working environments and encourages a different, sustainability-centred, approach to constructing ER in universities in an attempt to coordinate more effectively the clashing institutional logics.
Against the backdrop of increasing foreign direct investment flows in the developing economies in... more Against the backdrop of increasing foreign direct investment flows in the developing economies in Asia the investigation of topical aspects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the region increases in importance. We examine the CSR motives of four large indigenous agribusiness firms in India with a view to assess the validity of the claim that CSR in this country, compared to developed countries, is influenced substantially more by moral, cultural and religious considerations and less by self-interest and profit seeking. Unlike numerous other investigations of CSR that rely on questionnaires and company reports, our data are drawn from in-depth interviews and theme analysis revealing some intricate motives behind CSR behavior and business conditions that inspire them. Our findings challenge some previously reported results and indicate that the degree to which such behavior is affected by the state of economic development and cultural differences may be smaller than is often ...
Studies in Higher Education
Our study engages evidence from a University and College Union branch archive to explore developm... more Our study engages evidence from a University and College Union branch archive to explore developments in employee relations (ER) that reflect the organisational effects of marketisation of UK universities. The evidence exposes points of strain in ER at a level of professional divide between managers and academics, and helps to understand their roots in the context of universities as organisational hybrids. Our investigation reveals the failure of ER to adapt to increasingly conflict-ridden working environments and encourages a different, sustainability-centred, approach to constructing ER in universities in an attempt to coordinate more effectively the clashing institutional logics.
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