Doctoral Dissertation Research: Technological Change in the Siberian Oil Industry: Performance and Its Influence on Regional Economic Development

9406594雅罗什在俄罗斯和其他前共产主义国家，经济活动正在继续进行结构性转型。在不同的行业和不同的地区，旧的机构从国家集中控制资源到分散的私有形式的过程是不同的。这一博士论文研究项目将通过对西伯利亚四种不同的石油开采和运输业务的审查，对制度结构的变化进行小规模的比较研究。该项目的初始阶段将包括对国际筹资组织政策和方案的档案研究。将与国际货币基金组织和世界银行等机构的官员、跨国石油公司的项目开发官员和其他官员以及在俄罗斯合资企业中经验丰富的律师进行面谈。这位博士生还将参加一个关于石油和矿产法律和政策的国际研讨会。该项目的最后阶段将包括对西伯利亚石油业务的实地考察，在那里将与行业和地方政府领导人和工人进行访谈，并将从已公布的账目和实地观察中获得数据。该项目将对一个重要的采掘业的体制和技术变化之间的关系提供有价值的新见解。除了生成关于西伯利亚四个私人石油业务的经验信息外，这项研究还将加强对地方、地区和国家政策的影响以及外国跨国公司对一项重要采掘活动发展的干预的理解。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立研究生涯。

9406594 JAROSZ In Russia and other former communist nations, economic activities are continuing to undergo structural transformations. The processes through which the old institutions geared toward centralized state control of resources into decentralized forms of private ownership have varied in different industries and in different regions. This doctoral dissertation research project will consist of a small-scale comparative study of changing institutional structure through examination of four different petroleum-extraction and -transportation operations in Siberia. The initial phases of the project will include archival research into international funding organization policies and programs. Interviews will be conducted with officials at agencies like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, with project- development officers and other officials at multinational oil companies, and with lawyers experienced in joint ventures involving Russia. The doctoral student also will attend an international seminar on petroleum and mineral law and policy. The final phases of the project will consist of on-site visits to the Siberian oil operation, where interviews will be conducted with industry and local government leaders and workers, and data will be obtained from published accounts and field observations. This project will provide valuable new insights into relationships among institutional and technological changes in an important extractive industry. In addition to generating empirical information about four private oil operations in Siberia, this research will enhance understandings of the impacts of local, regional, and national policies and the intervention of foreign multinational corporations on the development of an important extractive activity. As a doctoral dissertation research improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.