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Enterprising women in transition economies
1. Businesswomen - Former Soviet republics 2. Women-owned
business enterprises - Former Soviet republics
3. Entrepreneurship - Former Soviet republics
4. Businesswomen - Europe, Central 5. Women-owned business
enterprises - Europe, Central 6. Entrepreneurship - Europe,
Central
I. Welter, Friederike II. Smallbone, David III. Isakova, Nina B.
338'.04'082' 0947
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Enterprising women in transition economies / edited by Friederike Welter, David
Smallbone and Nina B. Isakova.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-7546-4232-1
1. Businesswomen-Former communist countries. 2. Women-owned business enterprises-- Former communist countries. 3. Entrepreneurship-Former communist countries. I. Welter, Friederike. II. Smallbone, David. III. Isakova, Nina (Nina B.)
HD6072.6.F6E58 2006
338'.04082091717-dc22
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Elena Aculai is a Senior Research Officer at the National Institute of Economy and Information of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Moldova. She is also the member of the board of directors of The International Center for Advancement of Women in Business. Dr. Aculai has been acting as a research group director at the Academy of Sciences of Moldova for many years. Her research interests include small private business development especially during the start-up period; business management, first of all business-planning and financial analysis; development of industry. Dr. Aculai has been involved in a number of international projects on small business development in the states with transitional economies in Eastern Europe and Asia.
Ruta Aidis is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Governance at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. From 1996 to 1998, she was a Fulbright fellow in Lithuania researching female entrepreneurs. In 2003, she received a PhD degree in Economics from the University of Amsterdam. Dr. Aidis is the author of several publications on small and medium-sized enterprises including: Laws and customs: Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Gender during Economic Transition (SSEES/UCL 2004), and articles in Small Business Economics, Post-Communist Economies and Feminist Economics. Her main research interests include entrepreneurship, migration, gender, and institutional development.
Dr. Gl Berna zcan is Senior Lecturer in European Business and Corporate Governance at the School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London. She holds a PhD in economic geography from the London School of Economics and is the author of several publications on small and medium-sized enterprises including Small Firms and Local Economic Development: Entrepreneurship in Southern Europe and Turkey (Avebury Press, 1995), Small business networks and local ties in Turkey, in Entrepreneurship and Regional Development (1995), and Limitations to alternative forms of capitalisation: the case of Anatolian holding companies, in World Development (2003). Entrepreneurship and enterprise promotion in the Kyrgyz Republic is one of her current research projects and it is funded by the Nuffield Foundation. She also holds a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship to conduct research in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic. Her forthcoming book is Building States and Markets; enterprise development in Central Asia is due to be published by Palgrave/Macmillan in 2007.
Mateja Drnovek has been a post-graduate research assistant at the University of Ljubljana since 1997, recently finishing her PhD thesis on the growth potential of young technology-based firms. Her professional interests are focused towards entrepreneurship, business environment and employment. She has participated in several projects dealing with different topics of entrepreneurship, in particular female entrepreneurship in Slovenia.
Miroslav Glas is Professor at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, and the Head of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development at the Faculty of Economics. Professor Glas is an internationally recognised expert on entrepreneurship and small business development, having been working in this area of research and policy for 18 years. He has participated in a number of international collaborative research projects (PHARE, PHARE-CBC) in Slovenia and he has co-ordinated three national projects on the development of SME support services (on financial scheme for SMEs, on the voucher scheme for advisory services, on the development of business support centres). He is a member of the national team for GEM study, starting from 2002.
Nina B. Isakova holds a scientific degree of Candidate of Sciences in Economics from the National Academy of Sciences Ukraine. Currently she is a senior researcher at the Center for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies at the National Academy of Sciences Ukraine. She does research on small business and entrepreneurship in transition economies, science and technology policy and innovation. Her recent research work focuses on female entrepreneurship. In addition to her academic pursuits, Nina was a co-founder of a private consulting centre in Kiev, VENTURE centre (1993-1998) and has had work experience at USAID-funded NEWBIZNET project in Kiev as Deputy Director in Small and Medium Enterprise Policy (1997-1998).
Olha Krasovka holds a scientific degree of Candidate of Sciences in Economics from the National Academy of Sciences Ukraine. She is a researcher at the Center for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies at the National Academy of Sciences Ukraine. Her recent research work focuses on innovation and venture capital, small business and female entrepreneurship in transition.
