Purpose: Voice role identification and the psychosocial voice barriers represented by implicit voice theories (IVTs) affect lean team members' prosocial voice behavior and thereby lean team performance. This paper investigates how role definition and IVTs influence...

Purpose: Top management commitment (TMC) and prosocial voice behaviour in Lean teams are vital for the successful Lean implementation. This study aims to investigate how TMC influences Lean team members’ prosocial voice behaviour and how such changed voice behaviour affects the outcome of...

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the second-generation successors’ motives to join family businesses and their ability to generate innovation within them. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative methodology is used in this study. Data were collected through structured interview with...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the possibilities and limitations of venture capital formation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia where there has been a lack of success and benefits of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from this type of financing....

There has been increasing recognition that for regional competitiveness in rural areas there needs to be a focus on sustainable farming initiatives especially for family farms that are competing with global conglomerates. Family farms, whilst declining in number, are the purpose of this paper...

Purpose: This paper aims to study and compare variables such as location, industry, socio-demographics and business factors of several companies located in Western Macedonia. Design/methodology/approach: Research method is based on primary data the authors collected through questionnaires and...

Purpose: Throughout Macedonia, beekeeping is becoming popular regardless of ethnicity. Studying ethnicity, the purpose of this paper is to determine what beekeepers in Macedonia thought in their own words about their beekeeping entrepreneurship. The objective is to identify whether motivations...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how entrepreneurship traditions evolve in diaspora. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative multiple case study examining the role of diaspora embeddedness, extended family, ethno-religious-, cultural- and social ties and relevant structures...