Small and Medium Enterprises, Law and Business

Auteur

Jan Winczorek is an Assistant Professor in Law at the University of Warsaw, Poland

Karol Muszynski is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven, Belgium

Texte du rabat

The law plays an ambiguous role in running business. While legal tools can be used to tame uncertainties, for example, by concluding contracts to safeguard enforcement of future claims, they can also generate uncertainty.

Contenu

Introduction

Chapter 1. A money-making machine: The first look at SMEs' paths to justice

Chapter 2. The payment game: Indebtedness as a justiciable issue

Chapter 3. Contractual uncertainty and trickle-down economics

Chapter 4. Paradise lost. SMEs, authorities, and regulation

Chapter 5. "I've got these nice lads." Accountants, lawyers, and courts as instruments of managing uncertainty

Chapter 6. Bigger is better, until you go extinct. Economic growth and legal uncertainty

Appendix A: Methodological annex

Appendix B: Overview of respondents

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