Small Firms and Entrepreneurship: An East-West Perspective

by David B. Audretsch

Book Overview

This book analyses the relative importance of small firms in industrial economies. It brings together a series of studies spanning a spectrum of selected countries in developed Western nations and Eastern Europe to identify the exact role of small firms and how this role has evolved. A striking result which emerges is that a distinct and consistent shift away from large firms and towards small enterprises has occurred within the manufacturing sector...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521062047
• ISBN13: 9780521062046
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"