Development and Management Perspective of Small and Medium Enterprises in Kosovo

Abstract

The paper presents the development and the future of small and medium enterprises in Kosovo with particular emphasis on the management aspect. The paper highlighted the diagnosis of the current situation of SMEs, identify problems, obstacles and barriers that are suffocate the development of their activities, identifying needs and requirements of the community to improve the situation of SMEs, the advancement of processes development and the development of positive trends in strategic terms. The formation and development of SMEs has contributed to employment growth and market device with different products and services. Employment in private enterprises is increasing where structural changes can be observed within the enterprises, which are expressed through a decline in the number of commercial enterprises and increasing the participation of manufacturing enterprises. Issues addressed in this paper are how we can improve the development of SMEs as an obstacle factors influencing his process? how can you help young entrepreneurs?, how can we increase the number of employees, innovation, improvement of trade balance? And how to encourage local production and increase overall performance? Finalization of the paper will enable adequate addressing of the difficulties and problems faced by enterprises in Kosovo and enables the extraction of the necessary recommendations for the next steps of development of SMEs, creating incentives and support for economic activities that develop them in order to support economic growth and employment in general in future generations.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n2p467