Markt- und Unternehmensentwicklung Markets and Organisations: Lessons learned from Southeast Europe

Schrammel, Tine

Transition economies, such as the countries in Southeast Europe, face an expeditious institutional transition from a centrally planned to a market economy. The state withdraws from its monitoring function, which results in institutional voids that affect the economy in general and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in specific. With a qualitative case study approach Tine Schrammel develops a scheme to detect institutional voids as one source of competitive disadvantages of SMEs in transition economies. In a second step she demonstrates that specific cluster services bridge institutional voids and improve the competitive position of SMEs in environments of institutional voids. The findings add to the understanding of institutional voids and to the role of clusters in transition economies.

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Published by: Springer Gabler

Publication Date: 2014-05-07

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783658057244

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-05725-1

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 267