Leonid Y. Kosals

• Tenured Professor
• Faculty of Sociology: Deputy Dean for Research
• Faculty of Sociology | Department of Economic Sociology: Professor
• Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology: Senior Research Fellow
• Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (HSE Branch in Saint-Petersburg): Chief Research Fellow

Education and degrees

Professional Employment

• 11.2004 – current period Professor, Department of Economic Sociology, State University- Higher School of Economics, Moscow
• 09.2005–06.2006 Visiting Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
• 05.1994–11.2004 Senior Research Fellow, the Laboratory of Economic Sociology, Institute of Population Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• 01.1991-05.1994 Senior Research Fellow, the Department for the Expert's Surveys, Russian Center for Public Opinion Research; Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Research into Economic Transformation, Moscow
• 09.1990-01.1991 Leading Researcher, the State Research Firm “Intellectual Technology”, Moscow
• 09.1985-06.1990 Assistance Professor, Professor, Economic Faculty, Department of Sociology, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk
• 12.1985-09.1990 Researcher, the Laboratory for Methodology of Social Studies, Department of Sociology Institute of Economy and Industrial Engineering, USSR Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch,Novosibirsk
• 11.1982-12.1985 Doctorate, Institute of Economy and Industrial Engineering, USSR Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk
• 12.1979-11.1982 Researcher at the Sociological Laboratory, Novosibirsk School of Social Studies, Novosibirsk

Research interests

1. Social change, transformation of societies: comparative analysis;
2. Clan capitalism in Russia and other countries;
3. Shadow economy, organized crime, corruption (including that in law enforcement agencies);
4. Methodology of social research
5. Socioeconomic issues of post-Soviet military-industrial complex;
6. Innovation and its economic and sociopolitical obstacles.

There were carried out interdisciplinary studies combining research in sociology, political science and economics. Over the period of twenty years it has been completed more than 60 large-scale research projects on model of capitalism in Russia, problems of criminal control, corruption and shadow economy, motivation of labor, labor-management relations, social factors of the post-Cold War restructuring of the Russian military-industrial complex, social machinery for innovation, social problems of transformation in the R&D sector, construction, agriculture, social services. Many of these studies were carried out in cooperation with European, Japanese and US scholars, and their results were published in English and in other languages.

 

Courses

1. Comparing Societies in transformation: Trajectories and Systems, Higher School of Economics
2. Research seminar for the MA students, Higher School of Economics
3. Public Sector and Market System in the Post-Soviet Russia (now is the part of “Comparing Societies in Transformation), Higher School of Economics
4. Social Research, Higher School of Economics
5. Economic Sociology, Novosibirsk State University
6. Teaching-research Project “Economic Morality and Trust in Old and New Market Economies”

Research projects

Now there are three research projects under way:

1. Comparative survey-based study of economic corruption of the law enforcement officers in a several transformation and developing countries (Russia, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan and Tanzania). This study is an extension of an earlier research done in Russia and funded by the Soros Foundation.
2. Broad comparative analysis of the newly emerged Russian socioeconomic system entitled “Clan capitalism in Russia and its elements in other transition countries”.
3. “Labor-management relations and business strategies at industrial enterprises: Comparing Russia and China” is being developed in cooperation with Japanese, Chinese and US scholars and based on longitudinal surveys of managers and blue collar workers in Russia and China.

Studies were resulted in near 170 publications, including academic papers, papers presented to policy-making bodies and articles in general press.

Publications

2011