Essays on Entrepreneurship and Social Change
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2014-05
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Nicoara, Olga
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Recently, many social scientists have turned their attention to the role that context plays in understanding real-world, dynamic phenomena such as institutional, economic, and social change. This dissertation is an effort to contribute to this growing trend of contextual analysis. The dissertation investigates how and why the heterogeneity of, and interaction between "institutions" across societies shapes the manifestations of economic, institutional, and socio-cultural change. The research focuses on the experience with the collapse of communism and the ongoing transitions in Central and Eastern European, and Former Soviet countries.
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Economics, Entrepreneurship, Political Science, Entrepreneurship and institutions, Institutional diversity and specificity, Social change, The collapse of communism, The role of culture during transition, The role of leadership during transition