Comparative Analysis of Small and Medium-Sized Business Criteria in Russia and Other Countries

This essay will studies different concepts and definition of small businesses in different countries. It will examine Europe, Russia and its post-soviet neighbors, north America and Japan. Aim of this study is to understand why there are differences between states and what they mean in economy. Differences are not casual but create by a different conception of small business and its role in economy. It will be clear to reader, that different definitions are result of different kinds of economical and social system. In the end this essay underlines that when are compared statistics about small businesses of different countries, sometime conclusions cannot be totally true simply because parameters are not the same in all nations