High-Level Decision Making in the Contemporary Soviet Economy

本研究的目的是分析苏联高层工厂经理、经济管理者和官僚的决策。本分析将利用三个信息来源——对582名负责经济事务的高级政府官员的结构化调查，对120名高级行政人员的深度访谈，以及对1500名苏联企业经理的调查。研究者将使用这些调查数据来研究苏联经济官僚机构的资源分配实践、官僚程序以及苏联经济改革带来的这些实践中的变化。这一研究对于发展关于苏联经济的实证知识具有极其重要的意义。苏联高层管理人员对他们在苏联经济制度中的作用和该制度的运作的认识的证据将为评价现有的理论和模式提供基础。此外，他们对改革改革下的变化的看法的证据将增加分析改革改革的经验基础。

The purpose of this research is to analyze decision-making by high level plant managers and economic administrators and bureaucrats in the Soviet Union. Three sources of information will be utilized for this analysis-- a structured survey of 582 high-level government officials responsible for economic matters, 120 in-depth interviews with high level administrators, and a survey of 1500 Soviet enterprise managers. The investigator will use this survey data to study the resource allocation practices of the Soviet economic bureaucracy, bureaucratic procedures, and changes in these practices wrought by Soviet economic reform. This research is extremely important for the development of empirical knowledge about the Soviet economy. Evidence of high level Soviet managerial perceptions of their role in the Soviet economic system and the functioning of that system will provide a basis for evaluating existing theories and models. Moreover, evidence of their perceptions of the changes under Perestroika will add to the empirical base for the analysis of Perestroika.