Entrepreneurial mindset and family business performance: the United Arab Emirates perspectives Available to Purchase

Veland Ramadani is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business at Faculty of Business and Economics, South-East European University, North Macedonia. His research interests include entrepreneurship, small business management and family businesses. He authored or co-authored around 200 research articles and book chapters, 12 textbooks and 25 edited books. He has published in Journal of Business Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and Management Decision, among others. He has received the Award for Excellence 2016 – Outstanding Paper by Emerald Group Publishing. In addition, Dr Ramadani was invited as a keynote speaker in several international conferences and as a guest lecturer by President University, Indonesia and Telkom University, Indonesia. During the 2017–2021, he served as a member of Supervisory Board of Development Bank of North Macedonia, where for 10 months acted as Chief Operating Officer (COO), as well. In 2022, the study by Stanford University (USA) ranked him among the Top 2% of the most influential scientists in the world.

Khaula Abdulla Alkaabi is a Professor of Transportation Geography at the Department of Geography and Urban Sustainability, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), United Arab Emirates. She held the position of Chair of the Geography Department from 2013 to 2017 and served as the Chief Innovation Officer for UAEU from 2015 to 2022. Her research interests include transportation, land use planning, spatial analysis, GIS applications, drone applications, tourism, urban development, economic geography, entrepreneurship, innovation and education. She has published in Sustainability, Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Frontiers in Built Environment, Arab World Geographer, Journal of Enterprising Communities, Transportation Research Part F, Journal of Transport Geography, among others. She has published several book chapters with Ashgate, Routledge and Springer. Dr Alkaabi has received several research grants, academic honors and rewards.

Jusuf Zeqiri is a Professor of Marketing and International Business at South-East European University, North Macedonia. He has more than 20 years of teaching experience at various institutions. He has been teaching for 18 years at undergraduate and graduate levels at South-East European University and has held lectures as a visiting professor at many domestic and international educational institutions in Southeast Europe. He has supervised several master’s and doctoral theses. His research interest includes marketing and international business. He has published many research papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and is a reviewer for many international journals, including International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Dr Zeqiri is on the editorial board of the Business System Research Journal and is an associate editor for the International Journal of Islamic Marketing and Branding.