ABSTRACT
Unlike the Central European and Baltic countries, Ukraine had not agitated, organized, or planned for independence. However, the introduction of perestroika did result in the start of very small, limited private concerns in Ukraine. Among the surprising cooperatives that emerged were two business schools, one in Kyiv and one in Lviv, both begun before independence. Business schools would seem unlikely organizations at the start of perestroika, but there they were. This chapter focuses on the Lviv Institute of Management (LIM), an entrepreneurial venture that began with very limited resources in an environment not particularly conducive to such initiatives and has not only survived, but grown through innovation, skillful deployment of small initial resources to gain access to new resources, and successful leveraging of the resources acquired.
