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Knowledge Transfer from the Outside or Self-Learning? Keys to Success for the Establishment of Innovative Companies in Eastern Germany After 1989

In: Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition

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  • Anna M. Steinkamp

    (European University Viadrina)

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The majority of today’s family businesses in the former East Germany were founded in the early 1990s. The founders of these companies had been brought up and trained in a socialist system, and then suddenly faced the great challenge of having to establish or convert a company to function in the capitalist system. The question therefore arises: where did the founders obtain the knowledge to run a company under the new economic and political conditions? To whom do they owe their present success? The aim of this chapter is to explain, with the help of a qualitative empirical analysis, where entrepreneurs obtained the specific knowledge or skills for the establishment and successful management of innovative, technology-based, and knowledge-intensive companies in the market economy, despite the fact that they themselves had been socialized under the “old” socialist system.

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  • Anna M. Steinkamp, 2024. "Knowledge Transfer from the Outside or Self-Learning? Keys to Success for the Establishment of Innovative Companies in Eastern Germany After 1989," Studies in Economic Transition, in: Jutta Günther & Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast & Udo Ludwig & Hans-Jürgen Wagener (ed.), Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition, chapter 0, pages 299-325, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:stuchp:978-3-031-37050-2_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37050-2_12
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