Innovations and entrepreneurs in socialist and post-socialist societies. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Jouko Nikula and Ivan Tchalakov.
• Other Names: Nikula, Jouko; Tchalakov, Ivan, 1960-
• Contents: TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; PART I -- INTRODUCTION; The Asymmetry that Makes the Study of (Post) SocialistEntrepreneurship so Difficult; Were the Socialist Entrepreneurs at all Possible?; The Nature of Socialist Economy; The Sources of Informal Proto-entrepreneurshipin Socialist Society; Joseph Schumpeter's Forgotten Ideas about CommunistLeaders 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 Transitionin 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 Entrepreneursfrom 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 NewEconomic Realities of Post-socialist Transition4. 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 Machineryfor 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 Entrepreneurfrom TanzaniaSurviving 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.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 400 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 338/.040920947; Sociology; Entrepreneurship -- Europe; Capitalism -- Europe; Socialism -- Europe; Economic development -- Europe; Capitalism -- Europe; Economic development -- Europe; Entrepreneurship -- Europe; Socialism -- Europe; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General; Capitalism; Economic development; Entrepreneurship; Socialism; Unternehmer; Sozialismus; Postkommunismus; Nachfolgestaaten; Entrepreneurship; Economic systems & structures; Europe; Ostblock; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443867221; 1443867225
• Related ISBNs: 1443842370; 9781443842372
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-400).; Note: Print version record.
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