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Entrepreneurship in the East German Transition Process: Lessons for the Korean Peninsula
Unternehmerische Selbständigkeit im ostdeutschen Transformationsprozess und Implikationen für Korea
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Abstract This paper summarizes the role of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation process that followed the breakdown of the socialist regime and subsequent unification with West Germany. The main aim of this exercise is to derive conclusions and recommendations for a potential unification of the... view more
This paper summarizes the role of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation process that followed the breakdown of the socialist regime and subsequent unification with West Germany. The main aim of this exercise is to derive conclusions and recommendations for a potential unification of the Korean Peninsula. We demonstrate that the formation of new businesses played a significant role, while efforts to adapt formerly state-owned firms were much less successful. In East Germany, newly emerging firms created the major share of employment opportunities, while incumbent socialist firms shed vast amounts of labor or disappeared completely. The main implication for a potential unification of the Korean Peninsula is that policy should have a special focus on entrepreneurship. In particular, it should try to utilize and strengthen the entrepreneurial abilities of the North Korean population and to create favorable conditions for the emergence of prospering new businesses.... view less
Keywords
post-socialist country; North Korea; reunification; New Federal States; setting up a business; entrepreneurship; transformation; productivity; economic development (on national level); self-employment; transition; South Korea; privatization; promotion of economic development
Classification
National Economy
Social History, Historical Social Research
Economic Policy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 256-280
Journal
Historical Social Research, 41 (2016) 3
Issue topic
Knowledge Transfer as Intercultural Translation: the German Reunification as a 'Lesson' for Korea?
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.41.2016.3.256-280
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed