Transferring management knowledge to Russia: A culturally based approach
基于雷特集团十年项目经验，探讨如何通过文化视角向俄罗斯管理者转移西方管理知识，识别传统与新兴价值观的障碍与机遇。
Executive Overview Russian managers entered the decade of the 1990s ill-prepared to manage their companies in the country's chaotic transition to a market economy. This article draws lessons for transferring Western management knowledge to Russian managers from programs conducted over a ten-year period by the Rayter Group, a cross-cultural training organization. The group's experience underscores the transitional nature of business values among Russian managers, including the need to recognize the barriers and potential opportunities that traditional culture and values can create, as well as the potential for newly developing ones to support the transfer of Western knowledge. These two sets of values must be understood and appreciated by those transferring knowledge through the design and execution of management education programs, as well as in other situations like joint ventures and parent-subsidiary operations. The lessons presented in this article are grounded in the context of a culturally based approach to transferring knowledge that includes the culture, values, attitudes, and behaviors of Russian managers. These factors affect the capabilities of both transferors and receivers of knowledge to engage in effective knowledge transfer. The article concludes with recommendations for knowledge transfer in Russia that may also be useful in other transitional economies.