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Life and times of a Danish entrepreneur: Lessons for today's Russian market
Author(s) -
Holden Nigel
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
thunderbird international business review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.553
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1520-6874
pISSN - 1096-4762
DOI - 10.1002/tie.20083
Subject(s) - danish , soviet union , factory (object oriented programming) , point (geometry) , political science , economic history , business , economics , law , politics , philosophy , linguistics , geometry , mathematics , computer science , programming language
Harald Schou‐Kjeldsen first went to Russia as a young Danish diplomat from 1915 to 1919 and lived there again—there being, of course, Soviet Russia by that point— from 1922 to 1934. During this time, he ran various import‐export businesses and notably set up a button factory, employing at its peak some 350 workers. Schou‐Kjeldsen's life in the early Soviet Union provides a remarkable picture of how Stalinism stifled his business activities. Schou‐Kjeldsen, a resourceful entrepreneur in an adversarial business environment, has a special claim as a role model for foreign businesspeople operating in the not entirely dissimilar conditions of post‐Soviet Russia today. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.