[PDF] Innovations And Entrepreneurs In Socialist And Post Socialist Societies eBook

Author : Jouko Nikula
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1443867225

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This volume is composed of interviews with entrepreneurs from Bulgaria, Estonia, Macedonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russian Karelia, and reveals both unique patterns and striking similarities in entrepreneurial activities during the administrative economy of socialism and the period of post-socialism. The book challenges simultaneously the common way of conceptualizing entrepreneurship, the commonly held belief that there were no entrepreneurs under socialism, and the commonly held idea of post-socialism as an antidote to socialist order. The stories of start-up entrepreneurs of the post-socialist transition also challenge some of the key neo-liberal principles. The book is theoretically inspired by the recent studies of economic historians, critical reading of the classical ideas of Joseph Schumpeter on innovations in non-market economies, and the original model of the communist ‘Sacred and Profane’, developed by Markku Kivinen.

Author : Bruno Dallago
Publisher : Springer
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 1992-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349123935

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Analyzes the processes of privatization and entrepreneurial formation by countries and subjects, and points out the different features they acquire in various post-socialist countries through an interdisciplinary and historico-comparative approach.

Author : Susan Bridger
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Decentralization in government
ISBN : 0415158508

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This book focuses on survival strategies developed at local levels in response to changing cultural, political and economic structures in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. An interdisciplinary approach is adopted as the contributors engage with questions of gender, ethnicity, migration, nationalism, employment and labour patterns and changing family structures.

Author : David Smallbone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 2008-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134327498

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This book examines entrepreneurship and small business in Russia and key countries of Eastern Europe, showing how far small businesses have developed, and discusses how far 'market reforms' and a market mentality have been taken up by ordinary people in the real everyday economy. For each of the countries examined - Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland

Author : European Association for Comparative Economic Studies
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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An analysis of the emergence and contribution of new entrepreneurs in the transforming economies of Eastern Europe, which investigates how far small and newly founded enterprises have compensated for losses in employment and contributed to economic recovery in Eastern Europe.

Author : Walter Leal Filho
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Research, Industrial
ISBN : 9781586033996

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The course was called to address problems created by a general lack of skills in research and development, a lack of local expertise on information and technology transfer, and a lack of experience in disseminating results from research and development in Caucasian and neighboring post-socialist countries. The topics include legal dimensions of inn.

Author : Victoria E. Bonnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317455622

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While attention has been focused on high-level struggles over control of giant enterprises in China and the former Soviet bloc, a remarkable but underreported revolution has been occurring at the grass-roots level. This volume examines the profiles of entrepreneurs and the patterns of business development in the post-socialist countries Bringing together the perspectives of all the social science disciplines, from anthropology through economics and political science to sociology, the contributors identify the criteria for survival and success of independent businesses in different environments. Their findings shed light not only on the "transition from socialism" at the micro-level, but also on the conditioning effects of different economic, historical, legal, and social conditions on the conduct of independent economic initiatives.

Author : Branko Milanović
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780873325684

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This book starts from the premise that economic liberalization - reduced state interference in economic life - is the common element in the current trend towards privatization and deregulation in the West and economic reform and restructuring in the East. In popular parlance, "privatization" and "perestroika" are its watchwords, Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev its heralds. But the specific character of the liberalization will be determined by the social characteristics of different societies. In order to study the reform process in the two systems, it is necessary to dispose of a general conceptual framework capable of embracing both a (predominantly) market economy and a (predominantly) centrally planned economy. The key objective of this work is to provide such a unified framework, and on that basis to analyze the policy conflicts that dominated both systems in the 1980s and the prospects for further change in the years ahead.

Author : Carole Nagengast
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000309606

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PREDOMINANTLY A RURAL NATION, Poland is most often depicted with urban scenes: steelworkers, trade unions, Communist party members, and Solidarity meetings. In contrast to this industrial vision, Reluctant Socialists, Rural Entrepreneurs views historical and recent changes and their agrarian consequences.During her many years in the Polish countryside, Dr. Nagengast has observed,studied, and worked side by side with farmers and other members of the agrarian class. Here she provides a first-hand perspective on the monumental failures of the Polish version of socialism, which were largely due to decisions that led the nation-state down a distinctly capitalist path to agrarian development. On the basis of her extensive research, Nagengast makes chilling forecasts about the impact of the accelerating development of capitalism on the culture, politics, and economy of Poland.This book will be useful to anthropologists, sociologists, and scholars interested in Eastern European and socialist studies.