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

在俄罗斯和其他前共产主义国家，经济活动正在继续经历结构性变革。在不同的行业和不同的地区，将国家对资源的集中控制转变为分散形式的私有制的旧制度的过程各不相同。本博士论文研究项目将包括通过考察西伯利亚四种不同的石油开采和运输业务，对制度结构变化进行小规模比较研究。该项目的初始阶段将包括对国际资助组织政策和计划的档案研究。采访对象包括国际货币基金组织（International Monetary Fund）和世界银行（World Bank）等机构的官员、跨国石油公司的项目开发官员和其他官员，以及在涉及俄罗斯的合资企业中经验丰富的律师。该博士生还将参加一个关于石油和矿产法律与政策的国际研讨会。该项目的最后阶段将包括对西伯利亚石油作业的现场访问，在那里将与工业和地方政府领导人和工人进行面谈，并将从公布的账目和实地观察中获得数据。该项目将为一个重要采掘业的体制和技术变革之间的关系提供宝贵的新见解。除了产生关于西伯利亚四个私人石油作业的经验资料外，这项研究还将增进对地方、区域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，该奖项还将为有前途的学生建立强大的独立研究生涯提供支持。

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.