Innovations and entrepreneurs in socialist and post-socialist societies / by Jouko Nikula and Ivan Tchalakov.

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...

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Main Author: Nikula, Jouko
Other Authors: Tchalakov, Ivan, 1960-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013.
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Summary: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 pos ...
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 400 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-400).
ISBN:9781443867221
1443867225
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.