This research looks at legitimacy challenges of SMEs evolving in transition environments. Facing lower visibility, higher institutional pressures and limited resources, SMEs experience stronger need to demonstrate their legitimacy, their adherence to the requirements of evaluating audiences. Two...

The purpose of this article is an attempt to determine the scope of Polish companies operating on the market, which could raise capital by the means of the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Therefore, a preliminary analysis is made of selected results achieved by economic entities in the years 2003-2012 as...

Following the broad overview of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship (KIE), or new firm creation in industries considered to be science-based or to use research and development (R&D) intensively, presented in our previous working paper (Woodward et al., 2012), this working paper presents an...