Government and entrepreneurship in transition economies: The case of small firms in business services in Ukraine

Service Industries Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 655-670

  Smallbone, David ^a   Welter, Friederike ^b   Voytovich, Artem ^c   Egorov, Igor ^d  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

^c European Union   (Belgium)

^d INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Business service entrepreneurship; Institutions; Transition economy; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; ENTREPRENEUR; FIRM SIZE; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; STATE ROLE; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

UKRAINE;

EID: 77951172178     PISSN: 02642069     EISSN: 17439507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02642060802253876     Document Type: Article

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