Jan believes that paying bribes is the only way to overcome the problems caused by the poor infrastructure in Russia. Is this really the only way of tackling these problems? the following case study about the problems of exporting flowers to Russia and then answer the questions.

To Russia with love Jan de Rover sat back in his chair, his feet resting on the piles of paperwork on his desk. He watched a jet flying low over the greenhouses as it came in to land at Amsterdam airport. He was thinking about his next trip to Moscow, where he was trying to sell flowers, which his company grew under glass. ‘I’m not looking forward to going,’ he told his financial director Rob, who was also watching the plane. ‘It’s frightening over there, you know?’ Sitting up, he leaned over his desk and said: ‘You won’t believe what the Russian mafia gets up to. Their tentacles are everywhere. And you never know where you are with them, they’re so unpredictable.

Do you know there was a shooting incident last week – about flowers, would you believe it!’