Small Firms and Entrepreneurship: An East-West Perspective Book

	List of figures
	List of tables
	List of contributors
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	Industrial concentration and small firms in the United Kingdom: the 1980s in historical perspective	15
3	The role of small firms in West Germany	38
4	Has the role of small firms changed in the United States?	55
5	Recent developments in the firm-size distribution and economics of scale in Dutch manufacturing	78
6	Small firms in Portuguese manufacturing industries	110
7	Small firms and the Italian economy: structural changes and evidence of turbulence	123
8	The role of small firms in Czechoslovak manufacturing	155
9	The evolution of small business in East Germany	182
10	The implications of the Polish economic reform for small business: evidence from Gdansk	190
11	The development experience and government policies: lessons for Eastern Europe?	208
12	Conclusion	227
	Index	233