Latent entrepreneurship in transition economies

Latent Entrepreneurship Across Nations

The paper studies latent entrepreneurship across nations. There are three main findings. First, large numbers of people in the industrial countries say they would prefer to be self-employed. Top of the international ranking of entrepreneurial spirit come Poland (with 80% saying so), Portugal and the USA; bottom of the table come Norway (with 27% saying so), Denmark and Russia. Second, for indiv...

A study of strategy of Small Economies facing the Transition of large Economies Industrial Structure

Taiwan economy has always been export-oriented, creating tightly-linked industrial chains between cross-straits companies tightly. Understanding the influence of transforming industrial patterns of major economic entities would be critical for long-term cooperative small economic entities (countries or regions) in the periphery. The author of this paper has thus analyzed the influences and ...

A study of strategy of Small Economies facing the Transition of large Economies Industrial Structure

Taiwan economy has always been export-oriented, creating tightly-linked industrial chains between cross-straits companies tightly. Understanding the influence of transforming industrial patterns of major economic entities would be critical for long-term cooperative small economic entities (countries or regions) in the periphery. The author of this paper has thus analyzed the influences and ...

Corporate governance in transition economies

The transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe have privatized their economies at an unprecendented speed in the 1990s. The expectation was that under private ownership, formerly state-owned firms would act as dynamic, profit-oriented players driving economic restructuring and growth. Yet, the expectation has rarely been fulfilled, and lack of effective corporate governance is often see...

Restructuring infrastructure in transition economies