Entrepreneurial Attitudes in a Post-Communist Transitional Rural Economy: The Case of Moldova

• Authors: David O'Brien , Eloi Españo , Mary Grigsby , Valery Patsiorkovsky
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A sample survey of small and medium-sized farms in Moldova is used to examine the prevalence of different aspects of an "entrepreneurial outlook" in a post-communist transitional economy. Within the range of less than 1 to 100 hectare farms, the most pronounced differences are that operators of larger farms have greater "technical knowledge" of different aspects of high value agricultural production and sales as well as having a greater willingness to deal with "uncertainty and debt."

Keywords

EN

Moldova; Post-Socialist Economy; Entrepreneurial Attitudes

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Eastern European Countryside
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 17
• Pages: 73-86

Dates

published

2011-01-01

online

2012-03-26

Contributors

author

David O'Brien

author

Eloi Españo

author

Mary Grigsby

author

Valery Patsiorkovsky

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10130-011-0004-1