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: Received: 24 January 2024 / Approved: 24 January 2024 / Online: 25 January 2024 (09:46:36 CET)
How to cite:
Berkes, J.; Páthy, Á.; Egyed, I.; Rácz, S. The firm geography of Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans. Preprints2024, 2024011794. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.1794.v1
Berkes, J.; Páthy, Á.; Egyed, I.; Rácz, S. The firm geography of Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans. Preprints 2024, 2024011794. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.1794.v1
Berkes, J.; Páthy, Á.; Egyed, I.; Rácz, S. The firm geography of Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans. Preprints2024, 2024011794. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.1794.v1
APA Style
Berkes, J., Páthy, Á., Egyed, I., & Rácz, S. (2024). The firm geography of Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.1794.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Berkes, J., Ildikó Egyed and Szilárd Rácz. 2024 "The firm geography of Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.1794.v1
Abstract
Over the past three decades, the region has undergone significant changes that have transformed the social, economic and political landscape. The traces of these changes are particularly visible in the post-socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe. These processes have sometimes fragmented, sometimes reshaped, and sometimes transcended borders, reshaping the region. The focus of this study is on the 'geography' of companies, i.e. the concentration of companies with more than 10 employees in the region in the 15 countries selected, according to various criteria. The countries covered by the study are Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, Northern Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. The data of the active economic operators (over 300 thousand) of the countries included in the study were analyzed by turnover and size. The spatial distribution of enterprises at the NUTS3 level presents a far more diverse picture than what is typically observed in economic indicators such as GDP. Additionally, the disparities in this particular distribution are not as pronounced or distinct as those of general economic indicators.
Keywords
firm geography, Central and Eastern Europe, Western Balkans, Orbis Europe
Subject
Social Sciences, Geography, Planning and Development
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