During the 1980s and early 1990s it was widely reported that large parts of the European countryside experienced considerable industrial growth led by a burgeoning of small and medium‐scale enterprises. The growth of these firms was closely associated with an expansion of trade and the...

K ALANTARIDIS C., S LAVA S. and S OCHKA K. (2003) Globalization processes in the clothing industry of Transcarpathia, Western Ukraine, Reg. Studies 37 , 173-186. This paper sets out to examine the integration of a region undergoing a process of post-socialist transformation in the global...

Baumol's hypothesis, i.e. that the allocation of entrepreneurial talent in productive, unproductive and destructive activities is determined by the rules of the game, is supported by a growing body of empirical research and underpins new avenues of research in entrepreneurial studies. However,...

Over the last quarter of a century, Greece, alongside other southern European economies, witnessed a burgeoning of new enterprises and the creation of a significant number of jobs in the garment industry. Many producers were beneficiaries of the decentralization of production from large...

Expansion of trade and intensification of global competition have trans formed the structure and pattern of the industrial sector in many developing and industrialising countries. Facilitated amply by the advances in com munications and information technologies, and under the pervasive in...

Are entrepreneurs in rural areas of Russia and the Ukraine any different from their urban based counterparts? What are the implications of the distinctiveness of rural entrepreneurship upon the institutional setting – given the weakness of the State? We focus upon the experience of rural areas...

Kalantaridis C., Vassilev I. and Fallon G. Enterprise strategies, governance structure and performance: a comparative study of global integration, Regional Studies. This paper is positioned within a voluminous body of literature exploring the processes of global integration. The research...

Labrianidis L., Kalantaridis C. and Dunford M. Delocalization of economic activity: agents, places and industries, Regional Studies. Global integration and the delocalization of economic activity have been two interrelated and defining trends of the last forty years or so. In deciphering these...