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Interest in small firms and entrepreneurship has spread over the last two decades from the US and England to the rest of Europe, first Western and then Eastern Europe, as well as to the former Soviet Union. In CEECs much hope was and still is pinned on the emerging entrepreneurial small firm sector to carry these economies out of their current economic position, e.g. either to a comparable level, adequate to meet the standards of a reunifying Europe, or at least to an improved level, first and foremost out of theit specific transformation crisis.1
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Pfirrmann, O., Walter, G.H. (2002). Introduction. In: Pfirrmann, O., Walter, G.H. (eds) Small Firms and Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe. Technology, Innovation and Policy, vol 14. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57460-3_1
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