Growth of Firms in Less-Developed Countries

​Fadil Sahiti gained his PhD in Management from Birkbeck, University of London, and holds an MBA degree in Banking and Corporate Finance from Kurt Bösch University (IUKB), Switzerland. Before joining Rochester Institute of Technology in Kosovo, he had been working as an Associate Lecturer and Tutor at LSE, UCL and BBK in the UK. Whilst there, he taught several subjects, including Financial and Managerial Accounting, Financial Reporting, Industrial and Corporate Change with reference to Central and Eastern Europe, and Research Methods. Sahiti’s research interests lie in the field of entrepreneurship in less-developed economies, looking upon factors that enable and constrain the growth of firms. Fadil is a fellow member of the Higher Education Academy in the UK and a member of Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Management Research.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Economic Profile of Kosovo: Problems and Challenges.- 3. Firm growth factors: a state of the art review and research issues.- 4. Measuring business dynamics in Kosovo: cross-country comparison and analysis.- 5. An Analysis of the Business Environment in Kosovo using Growth Diagnostics Approach.- 6. Resources, capabilities and managerial practices of firms in less-developed economies: evidence from Kosovo manufacturing firms.- 7. Social and economic conditions and firm growth.- 8. Conclusions on the growth of firms in less developed countries.