IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijesbu/v8y2009i2p186-199.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Barriers to doing business in Kosova: an institutional approach

Author

Listed:
  • Durim Hoxha

Abstract

This paper aims to contribute to the ongoing debate on barriers to growth and institutional influence in entrepreneurship. The empirical evidence comes from Kosova – a unique postwar environment characterised by a transitional economy. We employ the institutional approach developed by North (1990) in explaining the barriers to doing business in Kosova. Our results show that in the absence of the appropriate institutional setting, the informal factors emerge as a barrier to the growth of the firms in Kosova. More important, these obstacles harm especially fast-growing firms. Our study proves that institutions, both formal and informal, are important factors in shaping the entrepreneurial activities in Kosova.

Suggested Citation

  • Durim Hoxha, 2009. "Barriers to doing business in Kosova: an institutional approach," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 8(2), pages 186-199.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:8:y:2009:i:2:p:186-199
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=24376
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Nick Williams, 2018. "Mobilising diaspora to promote homeland investment: The progress of policy in post-conflict economies," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 36(7), pages 1256-1279, November.
    2. Nick Williams & Besnik A. Krasniqi, 2018. "Coming out of conflict: How migrant entrepreneurs utilise human and social capital," Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Springer, vol. 16(2), pages 301-323, June.
    3. Fadil Sahiti, 2021. "Institutions and entrepreneurial activity: a comparative analysis of Kosovo and other economies," Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 10(1), pages 98-119, February.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:8:y:2009:i:2:p:186-199. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=74 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.