Mets / Sauka / Purg Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe

Development through Internationalization
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-315-39236-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 244 Seiten

Reihe: Global Entrepreneurship

The process of the transition to a market oriented economy for countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent states (CIS), started some 25 years ago. A new technology base triggered the fast growth of new investments into intangible assets by global economic leaders at the beginning of the 1990s, providing the basis for a move towards a knowledge economy. During the past 25 years, entrepreneurs in CEE and the CIS have reshaped traditional industries and created new industries, combining innovative ideas with traditional competencies. Yet we still do not know very much about how and why companies led by entrepreneurs develop, how they expand globally, and what the role of new knowledge and innovation is in the internationalization process. Understanding the pathways of entrepreneurial development, especially growth through internationalization, is important for the overall development of countries in transition and beyond.

Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe: Development through Internationalization provides an overview of entrepreneurship in a range of important emerging markets. This book aims to fill the gap in the literature by providing up-to-date data and case based evidence.

With coverage of a range of national firms from countries including Belarus, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine, this book will be vital supplementary reading around international entrepreneurship and essential reading for those studying the business environment in this vital emerging market.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mets, Tõnis

Sauka, Arnis

Purg, Danica

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Hans Landström (Lund University, Sweden)

Part I: Conceptual framework

Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship Development and Internationalization in Central and Eastern Europe, Ukraine and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Introduction

Danica Purg (CEEMAN and IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia), Arnis Sauka (Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia) and Tõnis Mets (University of Tartu, Estonia)

Chapter 2: Internationalisation and European small- and medium- sized enterprises

David Smallbone and Hang Do (Kingston University, UK)

Part II: Entrepreneurs re-shaping industries: markets, products and services

Chapter 3: Entrepreneurship development through internationalisation in Latvia. Case of ‘Laima’: born sweat and global

Arnis Sauka (Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia)

Chapter 4: The internationalization of ‘Viciunai Group’: a case from Lithuania

Osvaldas Stripeikis and Irena Bakanauskiene (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)

Chapter 5: Entrepreneurship development and internationalisation in Belarus: case of transport company TTC KristallTrans

Elena Opekun (Grodno State University, Belarus) and Tõnis Mets (University of Tartu, Estonia)

Part III: Born to become global

Chapter 6: Entrepreneurial developments toward knowledge economy in Estonia. Case of Fits.me – venture-capital-backed start-up going global

Tõnis Mets (University of Tartu, Estonia)

Chapter 7: ‘Born Poland, Gone Global’. The case of successful Polish ICT company – Aiton Caldwell.

Ewa Lechman (Gdansk University of Technology, Faculty of Management and Economics, Poland)

Chapter 8: Entrepreneurship development and internationalization in Serbia.

Case study of ComTrade and Nordeus

Sanja Marinkovic, Jovana Rakicevic, Milica Jovanovic and Jasna Petkovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)

Chapter 9: Business internationalization: A case study of Telegrafia from Slovakia

Peter Džupka and Miriam Šebová (Technical University of Košice, Slovakia)

Part IV: Entrepreneurs-innovators going international

Chapter 10: The internationalisation of Richter Gedeon, the Hungarian pharmaceutical company and entrepreneurship in Hungary

Katalin Antalóczy and Magdolna Sass (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)

Chapter 11: Entrepreneurship and the internationalization process of Hidria - a hidden champion company from Slovenia

Danica Purg, Iztok Seljak and Alenka Bracek Lalic (CEEMAN and IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia)

Chapter 12: Entrepreneurship and Dental Industry Development in Ukraine. The Case of Dental Clinic Apollonia Entering International Markets

Irina Tykhomyrova, Nataliya Golovkina and Mykola Radlinskyy (International Management Institute (MIM-KYIV), Ukraine)

Part V: Conclusions and implications

Chapter 13: Twenty-five years of transition: entrepreneurial activities from homeland to borderless opportunities

Tõnis Mets (University of Tartu, Estonia)

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Arnis Sauka is an Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Business at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.

Professor Danica Purg is the President and Dean of IEDC-Bled School of Management, Postgraduate Studies, and the President of CEEMAN, International Association for Management Development in Dynamic Societies.

Tõnis Mets is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Tartu in Estonia.