Shadow Academic Entrepreneurship in Russia: Analysis of Labour Practices and Life Strategies

   The article analyses the phenomenon of shadow academic entrepreneurship in Russia. Shadow academic business is defined as the shadow, unformal, not institutionalised sphere of employment in the field of science and the higher education, including as legal, lawful, and illegal criminal forms of labour activity.

   The purpose of the article is to carry out social and psychological analysis of subjects of shadow academic entrepreneurship and to develop a system of typical social and psychological qualities of these shadow actors, to formulate their life and career strategies.

   The study is based on the results of research on the reasons for the development of shadow academic entrepreneurship worldwide: marketing and commercialisation of the scientific and educational community; The dissatisfaction of some employees with their earnings in official academic employment; Access to higher education on a commercial basis for persons unable to do so, underestimation of the intellectual and managerial competencies of specific groups of scientists, teachers by the management of academic and educational institutions, etc.

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