Small Firms and Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Oliver Pfirrmann, Günter H. Walter

      Pages 1-14

3. Western Experience and General Questions

   1. Small Firms and Entrepreneurship: The Western Experience

      • David B. Audretsch

      Pages 15-46

   2. Private Ownership and Markets: Limits to Privatisation in the Transition Process

      • Walter Heering, Oliver Pfirrmann

      Pages 47-72

   3. Industrial Modernisation in Post-Socialist Economies: Primary Endogenous and Elites Oriented Modernisation as a Socio-Economically Oriented Strategic Concept

      • Fuad Kandil, Günter H. Walter

      Pages 73-95

4. Central and Eastern Europe: Country Studies

   1. Entrepreneurship and Innovativeness of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Poland

      • Krzysztof B. Matusiak

      Pages 97-122

   2. Small Businesses in Russia

      • Natalia Kovaleva

      Pages 123-138

   3. Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Hungary

      • Friederike Welter

      Pages 139-155

   4. Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Yugoslavia: A Driving Force in the Catching-Up Process

      • Djuro Kutlaca

      Pages 157-178

   5. SME Development in the Republic of Slovenia

      • Viljenka Godina

      Pages 179-192

   6. Small Business and Entrepreneurship in Romania

      • Ioan Piturescu

      Pages 193-212

5. Selected Aspects of Small Firms Environment and Policy

   1. Supporting Innovation Through Institution Building in Central and Eastern Europe: Between Visions and Realities

      • Slavo Radosevic, Günter H. Walter

      Pages 213-235

   2. Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Small Firms: A Case for Technology Centres and Science Parks in the Transition Process?

      • Walter Heering

      Pages 237-249

   3. Regional Innovation Capacities and Economic Transition: The Example of West Transdanubia

      • Emmanuel Muller, Andrea Zenker, Tibor Döry

      Pages 251-271

   4. From Old to New, from Big to Small? — Transformation of Firm Behaviour in Declining Regions in West and East

      • Michael Steiner

      Pages 273-286

   5. Possible Strategies and Policy Steps for an Innovation Oriented Modernisation

      • Günter H. Walter

      Pages 287-299

6. Summary and Issues for Future Research

   1. Summary and Outlook

      • Oliver Pfirrmann

      Pages 301-317

7. Back Matter

   Pages 319-321

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Much of the research on transformation/transition in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) focuses on macroeconomic issues (inflation, economic growth, employment ...). Little research has been devoted so far to microeconomic analysis. Recently the issue of new enterprises and firm founders has moved to the centre of economic and policy considerations. Readers of this book will learn about the role played by these firms in the transformation of central and eastern European countries. The book also includes contributions from Central and Eastern Europe on which little or no investigation has been performed until now (Yugoslavia, Romania, Slovakia).

• Central and Eastern Europe
• Eastern Europe
• Entrepreneurs
• Entrepreneurship
• Russia
• business
• innovation

• Department of Political and Social Science Center of Research on Policy and Technology, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Oliver Pfirrmann

• Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Karlsruhe, Germany

  Günter H. Walter

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