The Adversary System in Low-Level Soviet Economic Decisionmaking.

Abstract

This note examines decisionmaking in Soviet industry through a case study of three branches of Soviet machinery production: data processing equipment, agricultural machine building, and chemical-petrochemical equipment of a decisionmaking system characterized by low-level conflict without clearly defined or predictable forms of conflict resolution. The study aims to cast a new light on relations between clients and suppliers in Soviet industry, and on the environment in which decisions on the importation of foreign technology are made in the hope of better predicting Soviet economic behavior. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA146870

Entities

People

  • D. Apgar

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Air Force
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Data Processing
  • Data Processing Equipment
  • Economic Systems
  • Employment
  • Engineers
  • Governments
  • Health Services
  • Mainframe Computers
  • Money
  • Personnel Management
  • Processing Equipment

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Industrial Economics