Small Firms and Economic Development in Developed and Transition Economies A Reader

Iacob Catoiu is Professor of Marketing and Dean of the Faculty of Commerce at the Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania Alexandre Chamanski is a market analyst at Stavanger University College, Norway Per Davidsson is Professor of Entrepreneurship at Jornkoping International Business School, Sweden Frederic Delmar is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden Mateja Drnovsek is a research assistant at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Miroslav Glas is Professor of Economics and Entrepreneurship at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and founder and Head of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development David A. Kirby is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Surrey, England, and Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of South Australia, Adelaide. Irina Kuzmina is Head of Business Studies, Riga International College of Economics and Business Administration, Latvia. Thuy O. Lam is a PhD student at ESSEC (Ecole Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales), France Jianwen Liao is a Lecturer in the College of Business and Management, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, USA Miroslav Mateev is Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at the University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, and Head of International Projects and Programmes Department at the Institute of Public Administration and European Integration, Sofia, Bulgaria David North is a Professor of Regional Development in the Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research (CEEDR), Middlesex University Business School, Englan David Pistrui is a Clinical Instructor in the Entrepreneurship Programme at DePaul University, Chicago, and a Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Management at the Stuart Graduate School of Business in the Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Hans J. Pohl is a specialist in economic science at the Univeristy for technology and Economics, Dresden, Germany Walter Ruda is Professor of Business Administration for Small and Medium Enterprises, at the Faculty of Business Administration, University of Applied Sciences, Germany and CFO of CDV Software Entertainment David Smallbone is a Professor of Small and Medium Enterprises and Head of the Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research (CEEDR), Middlesex University Business School, England Calin Veghes is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Commerce, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania Ian Vickers is a Senior Research Officer in the Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, Middlesex University Business School, England Sigmund J. Waago is a Professor at the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Trondheim. Anna Watson is a Lecturer in the School of Management, University of Surrey, England Harold P. Welsch is a Professor of Management and Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Department of Management, DePaul University, Chicago, USA Friederike Welter is a Senior Researcher in the research group 'Crafts and SMEs' at the Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI), Essen, Germany Oliver Wintermantel is a member of the European General Retail Team, Morgan Stanley, London, UKWatson, Anna is the author of 'Small Firms and Economic Development in Developed and Transition Economies A Reader' with ISBN 9780754630609 and ISBN 0754630609.