The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the key issues surrounding entrepreneurshipdevelopment in transition countries focusing on six main themes. Though it can be argued that thetransition countries started from more or less the same point when they embarked on theirtransitional...

This paper offers analysis of corporate governance issues behind the stock market performance(stock returns and activity) in nine Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries: the CzechRepublic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Overthe period June 1994...

A fundamental part of the transition process is for firms to integrate with the world economy. After having been denied access for many years to world markets under totalitarian rule and the auspices of the CMEA, this will require significant advances in labour productivity, product technology,...

Case study of Polish company Elektrim illustrates the changing basis of growth of enterprises between the transition and post-transition periods. Elektrim grew primarily through conglomeration in the transition period. After the exhaustion of this mode of growth Elektrim has started to focus on...