Entrepreneurial icebreakers : insights and case studies from internationally successful central and Eastern European entrepreneurs /: insights and case studies from internationally successful central and Eastern European entrepreneurs. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Julia Prats, IESE Business School, Spain, Marc Sosna, IESE Business School, Spain, and Sylwia Sysko-Romańczuk, Warsaw University of Technology Business School, Warsaw.
• Editors: Prats, Julia, 1964-; Sosna, Marc, 1978-
• Other Names: Sysko-Romanczuk, Sylwia, 1970-
• Contents: Introduction -- PART I: CONQUERING INTERNATIONAL MARKETS FROM TRANSITION ECONOMIES: INSIGHTS AND REFLECTIONS -- 1. Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies -- 2. Overcoming Start-Up Challenges in Transition Economies -- 3. Overcoming a Negative Country-of-Origin Effect -- 4. Growth Strategies and Internationalization Patterns -- 5. From Lag Markets to Lead Markets -- PART II: CASE STUDIES OF INTERNATIONALLY SUCCESSFUL CEE COMPANIES -- CASE 1: ACE Enterprise: 'Drawing' out the Future -- CASE 2: Atlantic Grupa: Preparing For Leading in The New Europe -- CASE 3: Avangate: Preparing the Trans-Atlantic Jump -- CASE 4: Big Filter: Russian Filters in the International Market -- CASE 5: Fx3x: Star Performance without a Star Attitude -- CASE 6: Graphisoft: The Architecture of International Growth -- CASE 7: Estonia's Laser Diagnostic Instruments (LDI) AS: Beaming Towards Growth -- CASE 8: LINET: To Be an Object of Desire, Not of Choice -- CASE 9: The Masterplast Story: Constructing an Entrepreneurial Success Story -- CASE 10: Modesat Communications OU: Riding a Big Wave with a Small Boat -- CASE 11: Pipistrel: The Freedom of Flight -- CASE 12: PKF Betar Company: 'Meters' Away From Further Growth -- CASE 13: Russian Cosmetics*: 'Healing' Skin Care Products in Russia -- CASE 14: Selena Group: Internationalizing Through Multilocality -- CASE 15: SOLARIS Bus and Coach: A Bus Tour to Global Markets -- Appendix 1: The Research Project -- Appendix 2: Growth in Real GDP in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltic States and the CIS -- Appendix 3: Profiles: Firms and Entrepreneurs.
• Publisher Details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 658.8/4; Business; Entrepreneurship -- Former Soviet republics; Economic development -- Former Soviet republics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Entrepreneurship; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Corporate & Business History; Economic development; Entrepreneurship; International economic relations; Business & Economics -- International -- Economics; Business & Economics -- Economic History; Business & Economics -- Development -- General; International economics; Business & management; Economic history; Entrepreneurship; Development economics & emerging economies; Management science; Small business; International economics; International business enterpris; Economic history; Entrepreneurship; Development economics; Business & Economics -- Small Business; Small businesses & self-employed; Former Soviet republics -- Foreign economic relations; Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137446329; 1137446323
• Related ISBNs: 1137446307; 9781137446305
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 398-399) and index.; Note: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 02, 2015).
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