The Pyramid of Entrepreneurship in Romania: Towards New Approach

Liviu Ciucan-Rusu () and Zsuzsanna Szabo
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A chapter in Entrepreneurship in the Balkans, 2013, pp 269-292 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Eastern European countries, including Romania, cannot take advantage of an initial, natural and challenging model, the nationalized and centralized system of the communist economies having reduced to zero the entrepreneurial capacities of today’s adult persons who should be success models for youngsters. According to Smallbone and Welter (2001), the recent history of these countries can’t represent an authentic model for the entrepreneurship based on knowledge. Over 40 % of the Eastern European countries’ businesses represent: the translation of the already performing activities from the public sector, the identified type of entrepreneurship being a type of ‘nomenclature business’, with thousands of companies operating in a formal economy, with only one employee, part-time business, without any elements of innovation and value for client, in these companies the bureaucratic structures from the state sector being copied and respected just so (Smallbone and Welter 2001).

Keywords: Business Environment; Business People; Entrepreneurial Education; Entrepreneurial Spirit; Innovative SMEs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36577-5_14

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