Entrepreneurship in Centraleast Europe: Conditions - Opportunities - Strategies

ISBN-13: 9783790807301 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 279 str.

Jana Sereghyova

Opis

The transformation process, on which all four CentralEast European countries, i.e. the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the Slovak Republic, have em barked, has become the subject of numerous publications. But as yet the majority of them dealt with institutional (systematic) changes and their implications for macroeconomic developments, while changes going on in the enterprise sphere received as yet only little attention. Even the few publications dealing with mi croeconomic topics focused only on individual issues and are thus unable to give a comprehensive picture of new entrepreneurial opportunities emerging in these countries. In order to fill this gap, economists from the Czech Republic, Germany, Hun gary, Poland and Spain put forward a proposition to analyse these developments in the framework of the A.C.E. programme of the European Communities. The E.C. included the research project entitled "Entrepreneurship in CentralEast Eu ropean Countries in the Framework of Increasing East-West Economic Compati bility" into the second round of that programme."

Spis treści

1 Changes in Entrepreneurial Structures in CentralEast European Countries.- 1.1 Initial Structural Distortions.- 1.2 Changes in the Structure of the Enterprise Sphere in Hungary.- 1.3 Changes in the Structure of the Enterprise Sphere in Poland.- 1.4 Changes in the Structure of the Enterprise Sphere in the Former CSFR.- 2 Mainstays of the Institutional Framework for Entrepreneurial Activities Established in Individual CentralEast European Countries.- 2.1 The Formation of a Two-Tier Banking System.- 2.2 The Legal and Institutional Framework for the Formation of a Capital Market.- 2.3 Institutional Changes in Foreign Trade of CentralEast European Countries.- 3 The Main Features of the Trade-Political Framework in CentralEast European Countries.- 3.1 The Reasons for the Collapse of COMECON Trade and its Consequences for Enterprises in CentralEast European Countries.- 3.1.1 Special Aspects of Trade Relations between CentralEast and East European Countries.- 3.2 The First Steps Towards Granting CentralEast European Countries Access to Western Markets.- 3.3 Some Trade-Political Aspects of the Association Agreements Concluded between Individual CentralEast European Countries and the EC.- 3.3.1 Principles of Reciprocity and Asymmetry.- 3.4 Possibilities for a New Take-Up of Trade Between the Countries of CentralEast and East Europe.- 3.4.1 The Central European Free Trade Area.- 3.4.2 Financial Aspects of a New Take-Up of CentralEast European Trade.- 4 New Behavioural Patterns Emerging in the Enterprise Sphere of CentralEast European Countries.- 4.1 Changes in Behavioural Patterns in Agriculture and in the Food Processing Industry.- 4.2 Changes in Behavioural Patterns in Manufacturing (other than Food Processing).- 4.2.1 New Behavioural Patterns in the Consumer Goods Industry.- 4.3 Changes in Behavioural Patterns in the Heavy Industry.- 4.4 Changes in Behavioural Patterns in the Service Sector.- 4.4.1 New Entrepreneurial Behaviour in Trade.- 4.4.2 New Entrepreneurial Behaviour in Transport and Tourism.- 4.4.3 Entrepreneurship in the Sphere of Technical and Financial Services.- 5 Entrepreneurial Opportunities in CentralEast European Countries for Foreign Investors and Businessmen.- 5.1 Identifying Entrepreneurial Opportunities in CentralEast European Countries.- 5.1.1 Sources of Information.- 5.2 The “Stake-Holders” and Their Influence on Decision Making Processes Concerning the Choice of Foreign Partners.- 5.2.1 The Authorities in the Capacity of Stake-Holders.- 5.2.2 The Enterprises as Stake-Holders.- 5.2.3 The Employees as Stake-Holders.- 5.3 Risks and Risk Reducing Measures.- 5.3.1 Possible Approaches to Assess the Technological Abilities of Economies, Regions and Enterprises.- 5.3.2 Operational Risks and their Possible Elimination.- 6 Entrepreneurial Concepts Applied in Preparation for Becoming Part of a “Big Europe”.- 6.1 Entrepreneurial Strategies Developed in the CSFR.- 6.1.1 Enterprises Operating in the Consumer Goods Industry.- 6.1.2 Case Studies of Enterprises Operating in the Engineering Industry.- 6.1.3 Case Studies of Enterprises Operating in Trade and Services.- 6.2 Entrepreneurial Strategies Applied in Catalonia — Spain.- 6.2.1 Entrepreneurial Concepts Applied in “Qualified Chemistry”.- 6.2.2 Entrepreneurial Strategies of Catalan Enterprises Operating in the Engineering Industry.- 6.2.3 Entrepreneurial Strategies Observed in Less Research-Intensive Manufacturing in Catalonia.- 7 Indicators of the Eligibility of an Enterprise as a Base for a Potentially Successful Joint Venture.- 7.1 Available Data and Their Credibility.- 7.2 Methodology and Outcome of Comparing Past and Present Performance of Industrial Enterprises.- 7.3 Testing the Eligibility of Enterprises as a Base for a Potentially Successful Joint Venture.- Concluding Remarks.- References.