SFeDu
of.211, Gorgoko St., 88 
Rostov-on-Don
Russia
344002
+7 (863) 250-59-54
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
te@sfedu.ru

TERRA ECONOMICUS

Evolution of Leontievs’ family business in XIX and early XX centuries

TERRA ECONOMICUS, , Vol. 12 (no. 3),
p. 102-117

Family businesses represent a major economic factor in the Russian Empire. The article illustrates the importance and problems associated with the efficiency of the family firm on the basis of empirical data of Leontievs’ industrial business (XIX and early XX centuries). Our objective is to examine individual and group interests and their effect on family business succession. Several implications are drawn. One of these is that Old Believers values place family business in a sociocultural context in which the interpersonal relationships inside and outside the business family are subject to a variety of ethnic and religious environment influences. Examining family firms in their organizational context provides more complete understanding of the dynamics underlying choices and activities in family business.


Keywords: business in Russia; business history; Leontievs’ firm; family firms; ownership; management; institutions; interests

References:
  • Address book of all of St. Petersburg merchants and foreign visitors, with the designation of the kind of their trade, industry and factory productions (1858). St. Petersburg: Typography of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. (In Russian.)
  • Address book of the St. Petersburg stock exchange merchants, foreign guests, stockbrokers and inspectorы at the St. Petersburg port (1852). St. Petersburg: I. Glazunov & Ko Typography. (In Russian.)
  • All of St. Petersburg in 1902 (1902). St. Petersburg. (In Russian.)
  • Ananyich B.V. (1991). Banking houses in Russia. 1860–1914. Essays on the history of private enterprise. Leningrad: Nauka Publ. (In Russian.)
  • Baryshnikov М.N. (2011). Creating textile trust in St. Petersburg in the early twentieth century. Russian Journal of Management, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 125–144. (In Russian.)
  • De Livron V.V. (1874). Statistical Review of the Russian Empire. St. Petersburg: Obshchestvennaya polza Publ. (In Russian.)
  • Factories and plants in St. Petersburg Province in 1867 (1868) / Issue 6. St. Petersburg: Petersburg provincial and metropolitan statistical committee Publ. (In Russian.)
  • Handbook of persons who have received at 1869 merchant certificates for the 1st and 2nd guilds (1869). St. Petersburg: Typography of А.N. Lavrov. (In Russian.)
  • Handbook on the persons of the St. Petersburg merchants and other titles that have received over time from 1 November 1889 to 1 February 1890 certificates and tickets for the right for crafts and trading (1890). St. Petersburg: Government Typography. (In Russian.)
  • Industry and Trade in Russia (1893). St. Petersburg: Department of Trade and Manufactures of the Ministry of Finance Publ. (In Russian.)
  • Kalyadina S.А. (1994). V.V. Leontiev and repressions of the 20s (Interview with V. Leontiev). Repressed Science [Repressirovannaya nauka], issue 2. St. Petersburg: Nauka Publ., pp. 187–194. (In Russian.)
  • Kalyadina S.А. and Pavlova N.Y. (1992). Family of V.V. Leontiev in Russia. Issues of history of natural sciences and technique [Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniya i tekhniki], no. 1, pp. 82–87. (In Russian.)
  • Kalyadina S.А. (1994). Vasiliy Leontiev. Introduction to a book: Leontiev V. Selected articles. St. Petersburg: Novoe vremya Publ. (In Russian.)
  • Kerov V.V. (2000). Old Believers’ Entrepreneurship: «myths» and «legends» of Anglo-American historiography. Economic History. Overview, issue 5. Moscow: Moscow State University Publ., pp. 82–86. (In Russian.)
  • Kerov V.V. (2004). «Behold the man and his work ...». Religious and ethical factors of the Old Believer business in Russia. Moscow: ECON-INFORM Publ. (In Russian.)
  • Kerov V.V. (2010). Entrepreneurship of Old Believers in Russia / In Ananyich B.V., Dalmann D., Petrov Y.А. (resp. ed.) Private enterprise in pre-revolutionary Russia: Ethnic and confessional structure and regional development, XIX – early XX century. Moscow: ROSSPEN, pp. 31–141. (In Russian.)
  • Latov Y.V. (2012). Discrimination economics in a «traditional capitalism» (Refl ections on the book «The Economic Institutions of the Old Believers» by D.E. Raskov). Journal of Institutional Studies, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 56–64. (In Russian.)
  • Leontiev V.V. (1994). Selected works / Preface by S.А. Kalyadina. St. Petersburg: Novoe vremya Publ. (In Russian.)
  • Lurie L. and Khitrov A. (1995). Peasant groups in the Russian capital: Yaroslavl «Piter inhabitants». Nevsky archive: Local History Collection. Moscow, St. Petersburg: Atheneum: Phoenix Publ., pp. 307–354. (In Russian.)
  • Petersburg Duma in the biographies of its representatives. 1906–1910 (1904). St. Petersburg. (In Russian.)
  • Plants and factories throughout Russia (1913). Kiev: Fellowship of L.M. Fish Publ. (In Russian.)
  • Potkina I.V. (2004). On the Olympus of business success: Morozovs’ Nicol manufactory, 1797–1917. Moscow: Moscow City Archive Publishing Association. (In Russian.)
  • Raev М. (1990). Understanding Pre-revolutionary Russia: State and Society in the Russian Empire. London: Oversize. (In Russian.)
  • Raskov D.Е. (2012). Economic institutions of the Old Believers. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg University Publishing. (In Russian.)
  • Rozmainsky I.V. (2012). Reflections on the book «The Economic Institutions of the Old Believers» by D.E. Raskov (St. Petersburg: Publishing House of St. Petersburg University. 2012). Journal of Institutional Studies, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 43–48. (In Russian.)
  • Russian State Historical Archive (RSHA). (In Russian.)
  • Saitov V.I. (1912). Petersburg necropolis, vol. 2. St. Petersburg: Typography of М.М. Stasyulevich. (In Russian.)
  • Statistical compilation for 1913–1917 (1921). Proceedings of the Central Statistical Office, vol. VII, issue 1. Moscow: Trud Publ. (In Russian.)
  • Statistical information on the factories of the exhibitors who received awards at the manufacturing exhibition in 1861 (1862). St. Petersburg: Petersburg provincial and metropolitan statistical committee Publ. (In Russian.)
  • Varzar V.Е. (ed.) (1912). List of mills and factories of the Russian Empire. Compiled according to official data of the Department of Industry of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, part. 1. St. Petersburg. (In Russian.)
  • West D.L. (2002). Old Believers and entrepreneurial culture in Czarist Russia / In Broomfield U., Ananyich B. and Petrov Y. (comp.) Entrepreneurship and Urban Culture in Russia. 1861–1914. Moscow: Tri Quadrata Publ., pp. 103–117. (In Russian.)
  • West D.L. (2010). Max Weber, in the shadow of the Antichrist: Weber’s thesis and the Old Believers / In Ananyich B.V., Dalmann D. and Petrov Y.А. (resp. ed.) Private enterprise in pre-revolutionary Russia: Ethnic and confessional structure and regional development, XIX – early XX century. Moscow: ROSSPEN Publ., pp. 14–30. (In Russian.)
  • Fernandez P.P. and Colli A. (eds.) (2013). The Endurance of Family Businesses. A Global Overviewю. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Friedman W.A. and Jones G. (eds.) (2014). Business History. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Jones G. and Zeitlin J. (eds.) (2007). The Oxford Handbook of Business History. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Lubinski C., Feat J. and Fernández P.P. (eds.) (2013). Family Multinationals Entrepreneurship, Governance, and Pathways to Internationalization. Oxford: Routledge. Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Melin L., Nordqvist M. and Sharma P. (eds.) (2013). The SAGE Handbook of Family Business. Thousand Oaks, USA: SAGE Publications.
  • «Varieties of Capitalism» Roundtable (2010). Business History Review, vol. 84, pp. 637–674.
Publisher: Southern Federal University
Founder: Southern Federal University
ISSN: 2073-6606