Small Firms and Entrepreneurship

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Small Firms and Entrepreneurship is written by Zoltan J. Acs and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521431158 (ISBN 10) and 9780521431156 (ISBN 13).

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 of all Western countries, while the role of small firms in Eastern European nations has been remarkably restricted, and, indeed, all these countries have experienced a shift away from small firms. It is clear from this analysis that a major challenge for political and economic reform in Central and Eastern Europe is to create the strong entrepreneurial sector which exists in the West.