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Building States and Markets: Enterprise Development in Central Asia

a book talk with author Gul Ozcan (Senior Lecturer in Corporate Governance and International Business, School of Management of Royal Holloway College, University of London)

Thursday, April 29, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA

This book examines the emerging entrepreneurial middle class and their relationship with the state and market building in post-Soviet Central Asia. A new entrepreneurial class occupies a central position of balance between the growing poor and disfranchised population and an increasingly unaccountable bureaucratic regime entangled with business groups and oligarchs in state-society relationships. Studying the patterns of enterprise development and entrepreneurship in relation to emerging autocratic and oligarchic control built into states and markets deserves much attention. Although new business owners form a heterogeneous group showing diverse regional, ethnic and social characteristics, these entrepreneurs of Central Asia provide the single most important source of social stability and cohesion in the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. This study provides a range of analysis looking at enterprise development and entrepreneurship within national, regional and sectoral contexts with rich empirical data collected from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

 

Cost: no charge

Special Instructions

Parking in UCLA lot 2 or 3, $10.

For more information please contact

Jim Robbins
jrobbins (at) ucla (dot) edu

Sponsor(s): Center for European and Eurasian Studies, Program on Central Asia, Anderson Center for Global Management/CIBER

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