CHAPTER 2

Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Business Venturing in Russia

The distinctive property of the Russian mind is the lack of the concept of boundaries. You might think that all the immensity of space of our homeland imprinted in our brain.

—Boris Chicherin, Russian Jurist, political philosopher, 1828–1904

Main Points in This Chapter

  • Russian small business and entrepreneurship sector: origins, drivers, and trends.

  • Entrepreneurial business venturing in Russia.

Russian Small Business and Entrepreneurship Sector: Origins, Drivers and Trends

Taking a page from e-commerce in its categorization of business formats, the most common of them are “business-to-business” (B2B), “business-to-consumer” (B2C), “business-to-government” (B2G), “business-to-manager” ...

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