Part I Country-level developments -- The Competitiveness of EU Member States from Central and Eastern Europe in 2007–2014 -- Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth -- Facilitating the Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) – The Perspective of Support Providers in Poland in...

By combining insights from Europeanization, globalization, varieties of capitalism, and policy transfer literature, this book reconceptualizes the dynamics taking place during the EU enlargement process and makes a major contribution to the understanding of the relationships between...

This book explores challenges and approaches to the development, financial management and growth of Eastern European organizations, both public and private. Including papers derived from the 2015 Griffiths School of Management Annual Conference on Business, Entrepreneurship and Ethics (GSMAC),...

The Development Gap Between the CIS and EU -- East-West Integration: A Geographical Economics Approach -- Deep Integration with the EU: Impact on Selected ENP Countries and Russia -- Energizing EU-FSU Relations: Challenges and Opportunities -- The Motives and Impediments to FDI in the CIS --...

The enlargement of the European Union towards the East from May 2004 has generated an increase of about 100 million inhabitants in the EU population, and has especially brought along major challenges and important opportunities both for the 'new' countries and for the 'old' member states. That...

This volume brings together contributions on the major economic policy issues which have opened up as a result of the immanent process of European Union Enlargement. The issues analyzed range from modelling and analyzing the costs and benefits of enlargement, to challenges for macroeconomic...