Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies: The Role of Institutions and Generational Change

The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Data

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Estrin, Saul ^a   Mickiewicz, Tomasz ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central and eastern europe; Comparative systems; Eastern europe; Economies in transition; Entrepreneurship; GEM; Post communist economies; Soviet union; Transition entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880134242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199580866.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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