1 Changes in Entrepreneurial Structures in CentralEast European Countries --; 1.1 Initial Structural Distortions --; 1.2 Changes in the Structure of the Enterprise Sphere in Hungary --; 1.3 Changes in the Structure of the Enterprise Sphere in Poland --; 1.4 Changes in the Structure of the Enterprise Sphere in the Former CSFR --; 2 Mainstays of the Institutional Framework for Entrepreneurial Activities Established in Individual CentralEast European Countries --; 2.1 The Formation of a Two-Tier Banking System --; 2.2 The Legal and Institutional Framework for the Formation of a Capital Market --; 2.3 Institutional Changes in Foreign Trade of CentralEast European Countries --; 3 The Main Features of the Trade-Political Framework in CentralEast European Countries --; 3.1 The Reasons for the Collapse of COMECON Trade and its Consequences for Enterprises in CentralEast European Countries --; 3.2 The First Steps Towards Granting CentralEast European Countries Access to Western Markets --; 3.3 Some Trade-Political Aspects of the Association Agreements Concluded between Individual CentralEast European Countries and the EC --; 3.4 Possibilities for a New Take-Up of Trade Between the Countries of CentralEast and East Europe --; 4 New Behavioural Patterns Emerging in the Enterprise Sphere of CentralEast European Countries --; 4.1 Changes in Behavioural Patterns in Agriculture and in the Food Processing Industry --; 4.2 Changes in Behavioural Patterns in Manufacturing (other than Food Processing) --; 4.3 Changes in Behavioural Patterns in the Heavy Industry --; 4.4 Changes in Behavioural Patterns in the Service Sector --; 5 Entrepreneurial Opportunities in CentralEast European Countries for Foreign Investors and Businessmen --; 5.1 Identifying Entrepreneurial Opportunities in CentralEast European Countries --; 5.2 The "Stake-Holders" and Their Influence on Decision Making Processes Concerning the Choice of Foreign Partners --; 5.3 Risks and Risk Reducing Measures --; 6 Entrepreneurial Concepts Applied in Preparation for Becoming Part of a "Big Europe" --; 6.1 Entrepreneurial Strategies Developed in the CSFR --; 6.2 Entrepreneurial Strategies Applied in Catalonia --; Spain --; 7 Indicators of the Eligibility of an Enterprise as a Base for a Potentially Successful Joint Venture --; 7.1 Available Data and Their Credibility --; 7.2 Methodology and Outcome of Comparing Past and Present Performance of Industrial Enterprises --; 7.3 Testing the Eligibility of Enterprises as a Base for a Potentially Successful Joint Venture --; Concluding Remarks --; References.
This book presents a realistic picture of the conditions under which entrepreneurship is developing in CentralEast Europe. It gives deep insight into new patterns of entrepreneurial behaviour emerging in the industry and the service sector of these countries. The following issues are treated in detail: - The legal, institutional and trade-political framework for entrepreneurship which had been established in CentralEast European countries up to now; - The characteristics of individual types of enterprises and new attitudes and behavioural patterns applied by them recently; - Development concepts elaborated by enterprises embarking on privatization and entrepreneurial strategies applied by domestic and foreign entrepreneurs in different industrial branches and types of activities; - An overview of all the stake-holders involved in the choice of foreign investor is given together with a description of interests each of them is pursuing; - Untraditional methods of evaluating the economic and technological potential of individual enterprises are presented and explained; - An outline of various entrepreneurial risks which investors will have to face in these countries is given together with an overview of a variety of risk-reducing measures which have proved to be effective here; - Practical experiences with the application of these measure which have proved to be effective here; - Practical experiences with the application of these measures and with various development concepts applied by domestic, as well as foreign companies are described on the basis of numerous case studies undertaken in the framework of this project.
Entrepreneurship in central east Europe
Economic history.
Entrepreneurship -- Europe, Eastern.
Europe, Eastern -- Economic conditions.
HB615
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J363
1993
Jana Sereghyová ; in collaboration with Benjamin Bastida Vila [and others].