Knowledge Transfer from the Outside or Self-Learning? Keys to Success for the Establishment of Innovative Companies in Eastern Germany After 1989

Anna M. Steinkamp ()
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Anna M. Steinkamp: European University Viadrina

Chapter Chapter 12 in Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition, 2024, pp 299-325 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The majority of today’s family businesses in the former East Germany were founded in the early 1990s. The founders of these companies had been brought up and trained in a socialist system, and then suddenly faced the great challenge of having to establish or convert a company to function in the capitalist system. The question therefore arises: where did the founders obtain the knowledge to run a company under the new economic and political conditions? To whom do they owe their present success? The aim of this chapter is to explain, with the help of a qualitative empirical analysis, where entrepreneurs obtained the specific knowledge or skills for the establishment and successful management of innovative, technology-based, and knowledge-intensive companies in the market economy, despite the fact that they themselves had been socialized under the “old” socialist system.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37050-2_12

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