Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe

Dr. Tõnis Mets is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Tartu in Estonia.Dr. Arnis Sauka is an Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Business at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia. Professor Dr. Danica Purg is the President and Dean of IEDC-Bled School of Management, Postgraduate Studies (Slovenia), and the President of CEEMAN, International Association for Management Development in Dynamic Societies.

• Foreword by Hans LandströmPart I: Conceptual frameworkChapter 1: Introduction: entrepreneurship development and internationalization in Central and Eastern Europe, Ukraine and the Commonwealth of Independent StatesDanica Purg, Arnis Sauka and Tõnis MetsChapter 2: Internationalisation and European small- and medium- sized enterprisesDavid Smallbone and Hang DoPart II: Entrepreneurs re-shaping industries: markets, products and servicesChapter 3: Entrepreneurship development through internationalisation in Latvia: the case of Laima: born sweet and globalArnis Sauka Chapter 4: The internationalization of Viciunai Group: a case from LithuaniaOsvaldas Stripeikis and Irena BakanauskienėChapter 5: Entrepreneurship development and internationalisation in Belarus: the case of transport company TTC KristallTransAlena Apiakun and Tõnis MetsPart III: Born to become globalChapter 6: Entrepreneurial developments toward knowledge economy in Estonia: the case of Fits Me – venture-capital-backed startup going globalTõnis MetsChapter 7: Born Poland, gone global: the case of successful Polish ICT company Aiton CaldwellEwa LechmanChapter 8: Entrepreneurship development and internationalization in Serbia: a case study of ComTrade and NordeusSanja Marinkovic, Jovana Rakičević, Milica Jovanović and Jasna Petković Chapter 9: Business internationalization: a case study of Telegrafia from Slovakia Peter Džupka and Miriam ŠebováPart IV: Entrepreneurs-innovators going internationalChapter 10: The internationalisation of Richter Gedeon, the Hungarian pharmaceutical company, and entrepreneurship in Hungary Katalin Antalóczy and Magdolna SassChapter 11: Entrepreneurship and the internationalization process of Hidria – a Hidden Champion company from SloveniaDanica Purg, Iztok Seljak and Alenka Braček LalićChapter 12: Entrepreneurship and dental industry development in Ukraine: the case of dental clinic Apollonia entering international markets Irina Tykhomyrova, Nataliya Golovkina and Mykola RadlinskyyPart V: Conclusions and implicationsChapter 13: Twenty-five years of transition: entrepreneurial activities from homeland to borderless opportunitiesTõnis Mets

'This volume considers fast-evolving environments that present special challenges to businesses and entrepreneurs. It delivers a collection of carefully crafted micro studies and a general framework to understand successful business trajectories in turbulent environments. Recommended for entrepreneurship scholars, students, practitioners.' - Tomasz Mickiewicz, 50th Anniversary Prof. of Economics, ABS, Aston University, Birmingham, UK'Mets, Sauka and Purg offer a welcome detailed study of the many facets and variants of the international path to entrepreneurship of firms in Central and Eastern Europe, while highlighting countries’ similarities and differences. The reader finds in this welcome book a wealthy source of knowledge of the varied processes and strategies to internationalization in different firms which contributed to the varying degrees of success of countries’ in transition.' — Bruno Dallago, Department of Economics and Management, University of Trento, Italy