Regardless of widespread outrage over Moscows war in Ukraine, only a little number of Western business have actually deserted Russia, according to a Swiss study.Researchers at the University of St.

Gallen and at the IMD institute in Lausanne have actually explored how many companies based in the European Union and in G7 nations have actually divested from Russia because its full-scale invasion of Ukraine started last February.Their findings expose a really limited retreat of EU and G7 companies from Russia, (and) challenge the story that there is a vast exodus of Western companies leaving the market, St.

Gallen University stated in a statement Thursday.

In impact, lots of companies headquartered in these countries have actually resisted pressures from federal governments, the media, and NGOs to leave Russia because the intrusion of Ukraine.

The study, which was released last month by the online Social Science Research Network (SSRN)-- a publisher of pre-print research studies not subjected to scientific peer evaluation-- revealed that only less than 10% of EU and G7 companies with Russian subsidiaries had actually divested them.When Moscow launched its invasion, 1,404 companies based in the EU and the G7 counted an overall of 2,405 subsidiaries that were active in Russia, the research study showed.By late November, just 120, or about 8.5% of those business, had divested a minimum of one subsidiary in Russia, study authors Niccolo Pisani and Simon Evenett found.There were more confirmed exits by business headquartered in the United States than those based in Europe and Japan.But even with the United States, fewer than 18% of U.S.

subsidiaries operating in Russia had been totally divested because the invasion started, the research study revealed.

By contrast, 15% of Japanese firms and just 8.3% of EU firms had actually divested from Russia, it said.Of those who have actually left their Russian subsidiaries in location, 19.5% are German and 12.4% are U.S.-owned, according to the study.The research study also revealed that the leaving Western companies just represented 6.5% of the overall earnings before tax of EU and G7 firms with active commercial operations in Russia.They on the other hand represented 15.3% of the total variety of workers working for such companies in Russia.This shows that, usually, the leaving firms tended to have lower success and larger workforces than the companies that remain in Russia, the research study said.These findings, the university declaration said, bring into question the desire of Western companies to decouple from economies their federal governments now deem to be geopolitical competitors.