Entrepreneurship and government policy in former Soviet republics: Belarus and Estonia compared

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 195-210

  Smallbone, David ^a   Welter, Friederike ^b,c  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

^c Stockholm School of Economics in Riga   (Latvia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENTREPRENEUR; HETEROGENEITY; POLICY STRATEGY; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POST-COMMUNISM; STATE ROLE;

BELARUS; ESTONIA;

EID: 77953334549     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: 14723425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c0834b     Document Type: Article

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