EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS IN SOME BALKAN COUNTRIES
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS IN SOME BALKAN COUNTRIES

Summary/Abstract: Many scientists assume that entrepreneurship plays an extremely significant role in economic development. In this frame, a part of literature has considered as crucial human behaviour and individual perceptions in explaining the intentionsto start up new firms over time. These issues are of strategic importance also in Balkan countries where a large part of the industrial production has been strongly weakened and many industrial branches have almost disappeared. The current economic crisis contributed to exasperate the labour market conditions even more than in other European regions and caused increasing unemployment within traditional industries. These considerations reveal the importance of cognitive process because they represent one of the mainpremisesof entrepreneurial activities and shapes individual entrepreneurial decisions.

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