This study presents the first available—and near-complete—list of large UK manufacturers in 1881, by complementing employer data from that year's population census (recovered British Business Census Entrepreneurs project) with employment and capital estimates other sources. The 438 largest firms 1 000 or more employees accounted for around one-sixth manufacturing output. Examples can be found m...

The new millennium is seen as an epoch of Entrepreneurship with Entrepreneurs perceiving novel opportunities, organizing resources, undertaking risks to pursue their goals in establishing innovative ventures for scaling horizons. have the potency confront numerous challenges, such creating equity, equilibrium, ensuring sustainable and inclusive socialist economic development divergent economies...

How did post-socialist transition and a parallel shift in international labor division restructure regional innovation systems in Central and Eastern Europe? This question is increasingly important, because current EU innovation policy is combined with regional development in Smart Specialization Strategies; however, spatial trends of innovation in Central and Eastern Europe are not fully under...

By drawing on Kideckel (2002) and Todorova and Gille (2010), this article seeks to (1) explore forms of workers’ new subalternity in the new capitalist regimes in East Germany and Hungary, and (2) argue that nostalgia for the socialist regimes functions as a means and claim of the “little man” to express social criticism. Under state socialism, workers constituted the emblematic class of the re...