Kinship network influence on SME development in Albania

dc.contributor.advisor	Andresso-O'Callaghan, Bernadette
dc.contributor.author	Gassie, Esmeralda
dc.date.accessioned	2012-08-20T13:59:39Z
dc.date.available	2012-08-20T13:59:39Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10344/2461
dc.description	peer-reviewed	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Economic activities are considered as embedded in the social structure by many sociologists. Not very often though, is there a measurement of the kinship network on business performance by economists themselves. It is the aim of this thesis to identify and quantify the involvement of the kinship network in providing various economic resources. Starting with a small firm’s growth model, the model in this thesis includes kinship network indicators in Albania. The contrast is drawn between the performance of small and medium enterprises with and without kin intervention. The thesis presents alternative concepts of analysis and empirical considerations.	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Limerick	en_US
dc.subject	kinship network	en_US
dc.subject	SME performance	en_US
dc.subject	SME development policies	en_US
dc.title	Kinship network influence on SME development in Albania	en_US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis	en_US
dc.type.supercollection	all_ul_research	en_US
dc.type.supercollection	ul_published_reviewed	en_US
dc.type.supercollection	ul_theses_dissertations	en_US
dc.rights.accessrights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	en_US