In the development of an international agenda for applied systems analysis Swedish experience, developed over a considerable number of years, embraces a wide range of application domains. One international focal point for the Swedish interest in systems analysis has been the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, with its headquarters in Laxenburg outside Vienna. The Swedish Research Council for Env- onment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas) is currently responsible for the Swedish contacts with . When Formas was established in it inherited the Swedish...
In the development of an international agenda for applied systems analysis Swedish experience, developed over a considerable number of years, embraces...
For reasons having to do with the Soviet resource allocation model, many Russian forest sector enterprises were miserably unfit to meet the market competition that started to emerge after the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. To avoid bankruptcy and stay alive in Russias transition towards a market-like system many enterprises chose to engage in non-monetary transactions, thus establishing what has become known as Russias virtual economy. The peculiar institutions ("rules-in-use") guiding actors behaviour in this odd system are incompatible with the operation of efficient...
For reasons having to do with the Soviet resource allocation model, many Russian forest sector enterprises were miserably unfit to meet the market com...
