To date, little research has focused on female entrepreneurship in the context of transitioning countries. This paper compares from an institutional perspective two countries at different stages in the process of transformation. Lithuania followed a rapid transitional path leading to European...

Nach mehr als fünf Jahren der Wirtschaftsreformen und der Privatisierungsbemühungen in den osteuropäischen Transformationsländern untersucht der vorliegende Artikel die Ergebnisse im Bereich der klein- und mittelständischen Unternehmen. Anhand makroökonomischer Zahlen wird die Bedeutung...

Whilst internationally, the Mittelstand in Germany is admired and many countries try to emulate it, the current debate in Germany praises the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship, contrasting the Mittelstand as low-growth, low-tech and non-innovative - in short: as a hindrance to Germany's...

In this innovative book, international scholars investigate trust and its role in relation to the entrepreneurial behaviour of small firms across a variety of institutional and cultural settings. The contributors draw on original empirical material from a number of West European and East...