Foreign Direct Investment in the Western Balkans: What role has it played during transition?

S Estrin, M Uvalic - Comparative Economic Studies, 2016 - Springer
The paper explores the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the economies of the
Western Balkans during their transition to a market system. The paper recalls the political …

Institutional constraints and SME growth in post‐communist Albania

M Xheneti, W Bartlett - Journal of Small Business and Enterprise …, 2012 - emerald.com
Purpose–This paper aims to investigate business growth in post‐communist Albania using
an institutional perspective. Design/methodology/approach–The paper takes an institutional …

Comparing sustainable development measurement based on different priorities: sustainable development goals, economics, and human well-being—Southeast …

N Lior, M Radovanović, S Filipović - Sustainability Science, 2018 - Springer
Sustainability analysis practice has so far proved that measurement of the level of
sustainable development (SD) is associated with a large number of methodological …

Keeping a roof over your head: Housing and anti-debt movements in Croatia and Serbia during the Great Recession

D Dolenec, K Kralj, A Balković - East European Politics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We establish features of political opportunity structures of Croatia and Serbia as parameters
that help explain the strategies pursued by housing and anti-debt social movements in the …

The European union blowback? Euroscepticism and its consequences in the Western Balkans

R Belloni - Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
While there exists a large body of literature investigating the European Union's intervention
in the western Balkans, and in particular the influence of so-called 'enlargement fatigue' …

Economic integration of the Western Balkans into the European Union: The role of EU policies

M Uvalić - The Europeanisation of the Western Balkans: A Failure …, 2019 - Springer
The chapter seeks to evaluate the results of EU policies towards the Western Balkan
countries and related issues of their economic integration into the EU. It first recalls the most …

Sustainable finance role in creating conditions for sustainable economic growth and development

M Ziolo, F Fidanoski, K Simeonovski… - … : Green Economy and …, 2017 - Springer
The sustainability issue is the crucial one in distressed, socio-economic environment and in
the new and old social risks era. Additionally, the welfare state crisis and the regulations …

The interplay of conflicting and complementing institutional logics in sustainability practices

I Milosevic, AE Bass, B Schulte - Management International Review, 2023 - Springer
The impact of institutional environments on sustainability is well documented in the
international business literature. However, how multiple and occasionally conflicting …

[PDF][PDF] An empirical analysis of stock market development and economic growth: the case of Macedonia

D Lazarov, E Miteva-Kacarski… - South East European …, 2016 - sciendo.com
This paper has two goals. The first goal is to investigate the influence of stock market
development on economic growth for a group of 14 transition economies from the Central …

[PDF][PDF] Towards a sustainable economic growth and development in the Western Balkans

M Uvalić, V Cvijanović - … -Ebert-Stiftung, Regional Office for Croatia …, 2018 - researchgate.net
Although the transition to a market economy and multiparty democracy in the Western
Balkan (WB) region started in the late 1980s, in comparison with countries in Central and …