Entrepreneurial Development in a Corrupted Environment

The paper deals with essentials of corruptive environment creation and gives the historical background of corruption existence which can help the researcher to come to deeper understanding of its results. After that business corruption dimensions are searched and main trends of different types of the firms’ development in those dimensions are investigated. The paper also reveals the results of survey dedicated to estimation of corruptive environments’ entrepreneurial intentions which allows understanding the main trends of business model creation in this type of hostile external surroundings. Finally typical specific features of entrepreneurial development in corruptive environment are revealed. Those include both individual features of entrepreneurs developing their business in corruptive environment as well as main features of business models they tend to implement in their entrepreneurial practices.