| Tekijä: | Scase, R. |
| Otsikko: | The role of small businesses in the economic transformation of Eastern Europe: real but relatively unimportant? |
| Lehti: | International Small Business Journal
1997 : OCT-DEC, VOL. 16:1, p. 13-21 |
| Asiasana: | ROLES EUROPE, EAST ECONOMICS |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | This paper discusses the role of small businesses in the economies of Central Europe. It argues for a distinction between proprietorship and entrepreneurship and suggests that there is little evidence of rational, growth-oriented small business start-up in these countries. Instead, the paper claims that the small business sector consists of those who are motivated to carve out "niches" of personal autonomy within uncertain economic conditions. It identifies those who constitute the key groupings of the emerging small business sector and argues that though representing real economic change, they are relatively unimportant in the economic transformation of Eastern Europe. |
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