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

• Autore: Nikula Jouko
• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (412 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.04094
• Soggetto topico: Entrepreneurship - Europe; Capitalism - Europe; Socialism - Europe; Economic development - Europe
• Persona (resp. second.): TchalakovIvan <1960->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; PART I - INTRODUCTION; The Asymmetry that Makes the Study of (Post) Socialist Entrepreneurship so Difficult; Were the Socialist Entrepreneurs at all Possible?; The Nature of Socialist Economy; The Sources of Informal Proto-entrepreneurship in Socialist Society; Joseph Schumpeter's Forgotten Ideas about Communist Leaders as Entrepreneurs; The Missing Link between Invention and Innovation; The Internal Divergence of Communist Leaders; The Sacred and Profane of Socialist Modernity; Entrepreneurship during the Posts-socialist Transition ; The Strange World of Post-socialist 'Fluid Modernity'Post-socialist Transition in Bulgaria; The Last Years of USSR and Post-socialist Transition in Russia; Evolution of Private Entrepreneurship in Late-Sovietand Post-soviet Estonia and Latvia; PART II - DIFFERENT ROUTES TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP; Five Groups of Entrepreneurs: a Short Outline; Earlier Generation Socialist Entrepreneurs from the Economic Nomenclature; 1. Valter Udam; 2. Prof. Ivan Nikolov Popov; 3. Former Kolkhoze Leader in Iecava, Latvia ; Younger Generation of Socialist Entrepreneurs,who Successfully Steered their Companies into the New Economic Realities of Post-socialist Transition 4. Interview with the Executive Director of "T" Ltd.; 5. The Former Director of the G. Ltd.Electric Cables Plant; 6. M. Co., a World Producer of Machinery for Advanced Composites; 7. Two Interviews with the Director of N-Techno A/S - 181; New innovative Entrepreneurs; 8. "E. Cosmetics and Sons" Ltd.; 9. The Rose Oil Producer "R" Ltd; 10. K-tree A/S; 11. Two Interviews at T- wood A/S - 239; 12. A-Heat A/S; 13. A&B Software ; 14. Killey, Bulgarian Cable TV Entrepreneur from Tanzania Surviving Firms; 15. The A- Service Company; 16. J-sewing S/A; 17. K- Radio Plant; Institutional entrepreneurs; 18. Academic Entrepreneurship in Bulgaria; 19. R Electronics Ltd.; Declining firms; 20. L-apparel A/S; 21. Parallel Processors Company "P"; 22. AV Joint-stock company; 23. A Private Farmer from Lithuania.; REFERENCES
• Sommario/riassunto: 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...
• Titolo autorizzato: Innovations and entrepreneurs in socialist and post-socialist societies
• ISBN: 1-4438-6722-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814996803321
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