Understanding entrepreneurship development in Latvia: a cross-disciplinary approach

Tatjana Koke, Natalja Lace and Karine Oganisjana

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2011, vol. 13, issue 3, 293-312

Abstract: This paper analyses economic and educational challenges on the way of understanding and formation of entrepreneurship in Latvia in its almost 20-year long post socialistic period. Along with the state support programmes for small business development, entrepreneurship as a new concept is researched integrating as well the world experience in this field. It is shown that entrepreneurship is a dynamic system of the components determined in mixed methods research. The elaborated holistic functional-structural model of entrepreneurship illustrates that entrepreneurship can be developed holistically as a system when students identify, generate and realise opportunities into new personal, social or economic values not only in the context of specialised entrepreneurial disciplines, but within a wide range of disciplines in the unity of theory and practice.

Keywords: entrepreneurship development; enterprise; higher education; small business development; innovations; Latvia; small firms; SMEs; small and medium-sized enterprises. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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