Informal Ethnic Entrepreneurship (PDF)

Veland Ramadani is an Associate Professor at South-East European University, Republic of Macedonia, where he teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in entrepreneurship and small business management. His research interests include entrepreneurship, small business management and family businesses. Dr. Ramadani is an Associate Editor of International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business (IJESB). He was engaged by The President of Republic of Macedonia, as a member of experts' committee to analyse the economical, technological and juridical conditions for establishing techno-parks in the Republic of Macedonia. He also realized different training programmes with the heads of departments in Ministry of Economy. Recently, he was appointed as member of Supervisory Board of Macedonian Bank for Development Promotion. Dr. Ramadani received the Award for Excellence 2016 - Outstanding Paper by Emerald Group Publishing (Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy). His last book is Entrepreneurship in Former Yugoslavia, published by Springer.


Léo Paul Dana, a graduate of McGill University and of HEC Montreal, is Professor at Montpellier Business School and a member of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation chair, which is part of LabEx Entrepreneurship (University of Montpellier, France). This "laboratory of excellence" is funded by the French government in recognition of high-level research initiatives in the human and natural sciences (LabEx Entreprendre, ANR-10-LabEx-11-01). He has published extensively in a variety of leading journals including the British Food Journal, Cornell Quarterly, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Small Business Management, the Journal of World Business, and Small Business Economics.




Vanessa Ratten is an Associate Professor (Entrepreneurship and Innovation) at La Trobe Business