Veland Ramadani

South East European University | SEEU · Faculty of Business and Economics

This research conducts a theoretical literature review on firm territorial agglomerations, assessing whether scientific contributions have addressed sustainability-related aspects, how these aspects have co-evolved with the field, and their impact on firms’ competitiveness within the contemporary business paradigm. To fulfill this objective, a comp...

This paper investigates the influence of institutional dynamics and governance structures on private equity investment in Saudi Arabia, with a particular focus on corporate social responsibility (CSR). In the context of Saudi Arabia's evolving regulatory framework under Vision 2030, the study examines how both formal institutions, such as legal reg...

This book is the first volume presenting carefully selected chapters from the proceedings of the 7th International Scientific Conference on Business and Economics (ISCBE), Vila Real, Portugal, which took place in June 2024.

This present study aims to provide ways to surmount the barriers to sustainable green consumption by identifying the main antecedents influencing consumers' green apparel purchasing intentions with Asian, Middle Eastern, and European consumption cultures. The study expands the TPB model (attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control)...

The book titled "Gender in Digital Entrepreneurship: Recent Issues in Emerging Countries" offers an in-depth exploration of the intersection between gender and digital entrepreneurship, particularly focusing on the unique dynamics in emerging countries. As technology continues to reshape business landscapes, it opens new avenues for gender equality...

Research in socioemotional wealth (SEW) and its relationship with a firm’s performance in family businesses has increased in recent years. Nevertheless, this relationship remains dearth. Further development of knowledge around this theme is interrupted by the lack of systematic organization of the existing literature. Hence, this study aims to syst...

Capacity building is significant for women entrepreneurs. However, the appreciation of the problem of capacity building is low, and there is a lack of realistic funding and support for the same. There is minimal research into women entrepreneurs’ key motivating factors, success factors and issues, resulting in a strategic gap in developing policies...

Develi, A., & Ramadani, V. (2024). Policies and measures for women entrepreneurship development in Türkiye, In L. P. Dana & M. Chhabra (Eds.). Women entrepreneurship policy (pp. 75-88), Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-3607-2_4

Following the opening profile case study, this chapter begins by delving into the distinctive nature of leadership within family businesses, highlighting its uniqueness, complexity, and capacity for ambidexterity. Additionally, it sheds light on the specific challenges associated with achieving ambidexterity in family businesses. Then the chapter e...

This chapter introduces the readership of general principles of competitive advantages using the triple-bottom approach. It overviews competitive advantages that are sustainable for family businesses and they truly work in hardship. The chapter will cover different types of competitive advantage following the paths introduced to achieve the sustain...

Unique selling proposition is the focus of every firm in the market and so for the family business. This is the key driver for competitive advantage. Thus, the chapter overviews the most important existing models that help family firms toward long-term sustainable competitive advantage, but also it introduces possible models for family business sus...

Operation management and supply chain are main daily operations in family business, which every moment adds value to an organizational performance. Having a stable and best choice of suppliers/distributors/retailers is one of the keys to sustaining the business and firm’s competitive advantage. The chapter proposes sustainable values in operations...

The chapter introduces the overall sustainability of businesses, the nature of the family business, models, and it will introduce an overview of the family business sustainability using a triple-bottom approach. The chapter ends with the summary and the case study in the end that will introduce readers to the sustainability of family business. The...

The chapter portrays models that can be used in the long-term sustainability of global operations. It describes the modes of operations of a business on a globe and suggests models on which global operations will be sustainable using the triple-bottom-line approach. The chapter is followed by a case study.

New times require smart spending/investments, and wise controlling of costs while introducing new products/services. The chapter depicts the most important aspects of the financial tools that can help family businesses to finance and sustain financial aspect of firm’s business using the triple-bottom approach. It observes some financial models that...

Sustainable competitive advantage is imperative and without a strong background in human resources, it cannot be implemented. Human capital, in this context, is regarded as precious as other assets in organizations. Nowadays, it is necessary to plan and develop human resources that will help family firms to be present in the market. Thus, this chap...

R&D is being always part of firms if they want to produce and compete in the market. The chapter will depict areas of R&D that are key activities of the triple-bottom approach. It overviews nature of the R&D, new product development life cycle, and overviews possible sustainable models of R&D that will be a part of family business longevity as well...

This chapter focuses on the challenges that family businesses face to remain competitive in the market. The dilemma of innovate or perish moves the family business to explore for options that may even alter its current offering of products or services. After reading the chapter, students will learn the different forms of innovation; the involvement...

Trusmi is a typical batik center in Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia. This area is the location of numerous batik industries, employing hundreds of skilled artisans, most of whom are residents of Trusmi. One of the batik enterprises in Trusmi is Batik Katura, which was founded in 1974. The name “Batik Katura” derives from the legendary batik artist Ka...

This chapter tries to overview the HRM role in private firms, providing the best guide to the whole organization. As a powerful tool, HRM mediates between the top management and employees, providing both sides their satisfaction. Thus, the content of this chapter stresses the general practices in HRM while providing the best ways regarding employee...

Like every other business, a family firm is not safe from conflicts from within, whether created intentionally or unintentionally. Sometimes, the organizational design and/or organizational culture can cause conflicts that might result in a bad image of the whole organization. This chapter overviews the most critical elements in conflict management...

Lauren Brisbane has made Queensland Camel Company (QCamel) an important player in the Australian camel milk industry. QCamel emphasizes sustainable and ethical farming practices and became the first Australian producer of pasteurized camel milk. Although African and Middle East countries dominate camel milk production, Australian farmers are enteri...

This case provides insights into Antigua Relojería, a centenary shop that has been selling and repairing all kinds of watches since 1880 in the city of Madrid. In the city of Madrid, there are more than a hundred shops that have been trading for more than a century. All of them have been recognized by the City Council as Centenary Shops. This case...

This case covers how Pollo Campero, a Guatemalan fried chicken restaurant chain, has evolved to become one of the franchises to follow in the US market. The Gutierrez family converted this family-style restaurant into a cultural phenomenon in a Central American region dominated by the larger US-based fast-food franchises. The case covers the expans...

This chapter provides an overview of the family governance, variant governance configurations among family firms, and family governance tools and mechanisms that facilitate the family influence and control in the business. Family firms display unique governance characteristics due to family’s involvement in the business through ownership, managemen...

This chapter focuses on the challenges that family businesses face in succession aspects. Longevity is very important for the family businesses and for economies as a whole. Succession is one of the most difficult decisions for the family business, and one of the most important. When business leadership transitions are not well structured, they may...

This is a briefcase that highlights the innovative capabilities of Marfrig to enter into the plant-based patties with the Revolution Burger. Marfrig, a Brazilian family-owned business, is the second largest beef producer in the world with 33 production units in the Americas that reach close to 100 countries. The Revolution Burger is the output of a...

This chapter focuses on the challenges that family businesses will encounter after the discovery of opportunities outside its domestic market. The global markets offer an array of business and trade opportunities regardless of the family business type. After reading the chapter, students will learn about the nature of global markets; the different...

Being a small firm does not mean that small cannot compete in the international arena. Yet, small firms can easily move on, adapt, change, and absorb good international or global practices quickly which leads them to sustainable competitive advantage. The case study represents a small firm (ESOF LTD) that plays fairly well in the international mark...

This chapter provides an overview of the strategic management in family firms, family firm-specific resources, capabilities, and competitive advantages. Strategic management encompasses decisions and actions to achieve strategic competitiveness and maximize returns on investments. In today’s global competitive landscape, effective strategic managem...

Socioemotional wealth in private companies is a very important phenomenon. As the family business grows and develops further, it gives an impression to the public of its current status. However, perceptions about this issue are different among family members and employees, and thus, a different attitude in family firms, toward the socioemotional we...

Family businesses represent the majority of companies and are an important source for the generation of jobs in most countries. This chapter treats the different definition approaches of family businesses, roles in family business and family business goals. Further, in this introductory chapter, family business systems (family, ownership, and busin...

The article explores the relationships between different forms of empowerment—psychological, social, political and economic and their influence on work–life balance and women’s start-up intentions in Lebanon. The study also investigates the mediating role of work–life balance in these relationships. Utilizing a sample of 380 Lebanese women, the stu...

The aim is to showcase the remarkable achievements of AI-integrated research, illustrating the significant impact of AI has had across various industries and academia. The approach involves gathering case studies and conducting comprehensive analyses, with a specific emphasis on AI-enhanced research initiatives. The findings underscore the value of...

This study examines entrepreneurs' subjective well-being (SWB) in the form of life satisfaction. It presents a multilevel analysis approach explaining the relationship between individual-level variables (demographics and developed personal characteristics), country-level institutional variables (political stability, corruption perception index, pay...

Purpose Open innovation (OI), by now one of the major concepts for the analysis of innovation, is seen as a methodology for collaboratively designing and implementing solutions by engaging stakeholders in an iterative and inclusive service design process. This paper aims to empirically investigate OI capacities, defined as a cooperative, knowledge-...

The present study aims to determine the key antecedents that affect consumers' electric vehicle (EV) purchasing behavior. In this context, the study expanded the existing framework of TPB (attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control) by incorporating four new variables (product attributes, cognitive status, monetary incentive policies,...

Although entrepreneurial intentions have been widely studied, however, the relationship between intention and action is an understudied area, especially in the Middle East/North African (MENA) region. This paper investigates the antecedents of the intention-action relationships based on the doer, procrastinator, dreamer , and abstainer taxonomy of...

Research on the entrepreneurship ecosystem, based on different data and scales, limits the acceptance of a single definition. This conceptual limitation and the still recent research and higher education institutions have come to be seen as ecosystems associated with entrepreneurship. The aim of this study is to contribute to the field of knowledge...

This chapter aims to understand the development of women entrepreneurship in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). It provides a historical overview of the KSA and examines the entrepreneurial ecosystem and implications for women entrepreneurship in the country. The chapter highlights the deep transformation that the country has undertaken in all busi...

The aim of the systematic literature review (SLR) is to comprehensively examine previously published articles on entrepreneurship education (EE) by utilizing innovative teaching techniques (ITTs) to find out the key innovative teaching techniques (KITTs) contributing to entrepreneurship education. Besides, this research is to contribute to the fiel...

Notwithstanding the importance of startups for the economy, their failure rate continues to perplex researchers and policymakers alike. This study aims to unravel the interplay of multifaceted factors that lead to startup failure (SF) in an emerging context. The paper takes an exploratory, qualitative approach to startup ecosystem development in Ko...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the impact of entrepreneurial mindsets on the performance of family businesses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This study focused on the following entrepreneurial mindset factors: alertness to opportunity, ambiguity tolerance, dispositional optimism and risk-taking propensity. Design/methodology/approach A...

Purpose The dynamism of competition in international markets requires managers to react accordingly and ensure the firm's survival and competitiveness. This study examines the impact of cognitive styles and dynamic managerial capabilities (DMC) on a firm's international performance and the mediating role of these capabilities in the relationship be...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is widely prevalent in small, medium, and even large-sized family businesses. Family businesses confront the same pressures and challenges as any major organization when they expand, since they are a vital part of every economy and play a significant role in fostering economic progress. To be successful, they must sta...

This chapter offers a brief introduction to the Nayel & Bin Harmal (NBH) Group, a family-owned business in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The NBH group has been one of the most versatile and thriving builders in the UAE since its inception, contributing significantly to the country’s overall development. However, they are also active in several ot...

Purpose The purpose of this study is, from the perspective of artisan entrepreneurship (AE), to understand how professional and higher education institutions, local authorities, local and cross-border cultural entities and tourism stakeholders perceive AE by collaborating in a network to develop innovative and sustainable strategies, using the Quin...

Purpose The share of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) in e-commerce has increased, particularly after COVID-19, alongside the growing volume of e-commerce transactions. The increased number of orders necessitates the optimization of delivery operations. This situation has made using different technologies in last-mile delivery processes necessary....

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the family governance context on the relationship between high performance work practices (HPWPs) and labour productivity. This study uses cross-sectional data from the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Survey on 193 UK establishments. Our findings demonstrate that firms with family govern...

Veland Ramadani is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business at the Faculty of Business and Economics, South-East European University, North Macedonia. His primary areas of research focus on entrepreneurship, family businesses, innovation, and sustainability. Dr. Ramadani has an extensive body of work to his name, having authored or co-au...

Purpose This study aims to explore the grain chain in Kosovo. This study also aims to analyse the role of actors involved in the supply, production, processing, marketing and distribution of the grain value chain. Design/methodology/approach The study uses qualitative methods. A total of 60 semi-structured interviews are conducted with actors invo...

Given the challenges facing businesses and society in mitigating climate change, creating and supporting sustainable entrepreneurship is critical. However, the influence of National Systems of Entrepreneurship (NSEs) on the circular economy has not yet been studied. Our research studies the impact of NSEs on countries' circular economies while asse...

Purpose – The aim of this paper, based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and digital entrepreneurship literature, is to unveil the role of digital entrepreneurial knowledge and entrepreneurial role models in shaping digital entrepreneurial intentions (DEI) among Saudi Youth through a moderated mediation perspective. This study proposes that...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of returnee entrepreneurs’ education and knowledge transfer (KT) on business development (BD) as well as the moderating effect of time living abroad on returnee entrepreneurs. Design/methodology/approach The quantitative approach was used in this study to grasp and validate the concept...

Given the growing importance of digital transformation, on the one hand, and the recognized importance of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EE) on the other, we find that these are two fragmented fields in the literature and that they lack a systematization of the literature. Our research aims to develop a systematic literature review, in which we will s...

Purpose Women play an essential role in entrepreneurship because they have been able to make social and economic contributions in many countries. However, women continue encountering numerous difficulties when engaging in entrepreneurial activities, particularly from a societal perspective. Therefore, it is necessary to study the underlying factors...

Purpose The aim of this study is, from the perspective of artisan entrepreneurship, to trace and analyse the artisan's profile in the sustainable development of low population density cross-border territories, using the quintuple helix innovation model. Design/methodology/approach Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted with cultural and tra...

Recently, the topic about ecosystems and universities has raised interest among scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. This paper explores the impact of the entrepreneurial ecosystem on family business performance in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the moderating effect of universities in these relationships. To find out these relationships,...

Purpose There is limited research examining the relationship between social media and green food purchasing behaviour. In the current study, we examine the factors that affect consumers’ green food purchasing behaviour in Türkiye. Design/methodology/approach Data collected from the participants by survey method were analysed using Smart PLS 4.0 wi...

This article investigated the effect of perceived convenience and perceived value on intention to repurchase in online shopping. We also assessed trust and e-WOM as mediators between perceived value and repurchase intention. During March-July 2022, a sample of 298 responses were collected from consumers that use online shopping in North Macedonia....

This study systematizes and classifies the state-of-the-art of knowledge about innovation and succession in family businesses. Our systematic literature review details the existing knowledge and establishes new points of departure for future research. This research analyzes 32 articles retrieved from the Web of Science database and makes recourse t...

Purpose This research seeks to investigate the impact of individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) and entrepreneurial exposure on new-venture gestation activities during COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopted negative binomial regression (NBR) modeling with a sample of Saudi female nascent student entrepreneurs (N =...

This paper explores the antecedents of work-life balance and its relationship with job and life satisfaction. A proposed hypothesized model is advanced to examine the direct and indirect relationships between core self-evaluations, workload, and perceived organizational support with work-life balance and job satisfaction, in return, between work-li...

There is an obvious and increasing interest in Muslims as a market and the successful methods of marketing to them. This is testified to by the wide range of activities surrounding the topic, including the publications of dedicated journals and books, journal articles, conferences, and college and training courses. In just the last 12 years, since...

Purpose One of the key causes of the attitude-behavior gap is inconsistency in established entrepreneurial attitude in entrepreneurship-driven educational programmes. The purpose of this research is to look at the factors that contribute to the development of sustainable entrepreneurial attitude in educational institutions. Design/methodology/appr...

This study aims to unravel the determinants of social entrepreneurial intention (SEI). Using a moderated mediation approach, we examine the direct and indirect effects of prior experience with social problems, proactive personality, and social self-efficacy on SEI via social entrepreneurial passion for founding (SEP) as a mediator. This study is ba...

This chapter provides introductory information about the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, their contexts, family business in these countries, and a brief description of the chapters included in this book.

The current chapter discusses important characteristics of the family business in Kuwait by looking into the links between entrepreneurship, small and medium-sized enterprises, family businesses, and their growth over the years. The authors start by giving a general overview of Kuwait's business ecosystem, which served as a predominant external fac...

The chapter aims to provide an overview of the family business in Bahrain’s business environment. The first part of the chapter introduces readers to Bahrain by giving general information about the country. The following sections are about the economic outlook where the internal and external performance of the country are emphasized. This general e...