Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/183196
Year of Publication: 
2011
Citation: 
[Journal:] Human Resource Management Journal [ISSN:] 1748-8583 [Volume:] 21 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] Wiley Blackwell [Place:] Hoboken [Year:] 2011 [Pages:] 415-431
Publisher: 
Wiley Blackwell, Hoboken
Abstract: 
This article examines how employee self-reported entrepreneurial contributions evolved in firms operating in Russia in 1995-2004 and whether changes can be explained by Akerlof's theory of implicit gift exchange in labour contracts. We find that these contributions were indeed influenced by wage premia and shifting work norms, declining by about a half during the period and with a particularly marked fall in contributions by manual workers. The trend was found among foreign-owned, private Russianowned and state-owned companies. Akerlof's model therefore helps explain Russian workers' changing behaviour.
Subjects: 
employee entrepreneurship
implicit gift exchange
labour contracts
transition
JEL: 
D22
J21
J24
J31
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Manuscript Version (Preprint)
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