The Belarus Business Environment as Assessed by the Management of Leading Finnish Companies Operating in the Country

Abstract: Inward foreign investment stock has grown remarkably in Belarus. It increased tenfold since 2000 to reach over $14 billion by the end of 2012. According to the Central Bank of Belarus, Finnish firms have invested nearly $100 million in Belarus making Finland the sixteenth most active foreign investor in the country. Approximately 7,000 companies with foreign capital were registered in Belarus by the beginning of 2013. Finnish companies founded three dozen of these foreign firms. A lack of scientific reports on the perception of foreign businesspeople in the Belarusian business environment necessitated an empirical study. This article studies the attitudes of the directors of Finnish firms operating in Belarus on the Belarusian business environment. In September-October 2013, the author conducted interviews with directors of 10 Finnish corporations. The PEST model was used to describe the perception of the Belarusian business milieu by Finnish businesspeople. The main empirical find

Alternative title
Предпринимательская среда в Республике Беларусь: оценка ведущими финскими компаниями
Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Baltic Region (2015) 1 ; 36-55

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2015
Creator
Liuhto, Kari

DOI
10.5922/2079-8555-2015-1-3
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-51296-7
Rights
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Liuhto, Kari

Time of origin

  • 2015

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