Deviant and patriotic: Rogue Soviet international banking practices and the blurred boundaries of corporate norms. The collapse of the Soviet Bank in Zurich, 1982-1986

This article investigates patterns, practices, and actors of corporate (mal-)practices of rogue banking in Soviet international banking and how this experience may have influenced post-Soviet market behavior. A micro-level study of rogue banking at the Soviet bank in Zurich in the mid-1980s shows th...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cahiers du monde russe 2023, Vol.64 (1), p.171-198
1. Verfasser: Lambroschini, Sophie
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This article investigates patterns, practices, and actors of corporate (mal-)practices of rogue banking in Soviet international banking and how this experience may have influenced post-Soviet market behavior. A micro-level study of rogue banking at the Soviet bank in Zurich in the mid-1980s shows that Soviet and Swiss authorities reacted technocratically to the phenomenon. The Soviet international bankers’ perception of the superiority of Western governance led them to frame some forms of transgression as acceptable in the name of the Soviet state’s economic interest. The article refines the narrative of Soviet and post-Soviet informal practices as grounded in the Soviet planned economy by showing that the Soviet capitalist experience also had a role to play. The article concludes that the way in which corporate and institutional stakeholders treat risk-taking and transgressions has characteristics that transcend systemic differences. The investigation is shaped by a corpus of mostly primary archival sources and interviews.
ISSN:1252-6576
1777-5388
DOI:10.4000/monderusse.13961