Fadil Sahiti
Assistant Professor
Fadil Sahiti
Assistant Professor
Bio
Fadil Sahiti is a member of faculty at RIT Kosovo. He has a doctoral degree in Management and Entrepreneurship awarded by Birkbeck, University of London. For five years before joining RIT Kosovo in 2016, he was Associate Lecturer and Tutor at prestigious UK education institutions including Birkbeck, the London School of Economics and Political Science, University College London and Hult Business School.
His research interests include entrepreneurship and management, particularly the factors that influence technological and innovative changes in manufacturing firms in less developed economies, with a special emphasis on the Western Balkan countries. He adopts a mainly 'creative destruction' perspective in his research and especially work related to exploring growth and structural change in manufacturing firms, using innovation system, entrepreneurship and innovation policy approaches. He is especially interested in investigating the effects of industrial policy to promote the development of industrial technology, as a premise for sustainable economic growth in developing economies.
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Books and Chapters:
• Sahiti, F. (2024). ‘Industrial Policies for Technological Upgrading in Western Balkan Countries: Economic Growth and Development’, Springer, Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783031514289
• Sahiti, F. (2024). ‘Economic policies and entrepreneurial activity in transition economies from the institutional perspective as evidenced by Kosovo and North Macedonia’. Chapter 3 Public Policies in Transition Economies: An Institutional Perspective, Routledge. ISBN 9781032546056
• Sahiti, F. (2019). ‘The growth of firms in less developed countries: lessons learned from Kosovo, Springer, Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-14821-8
• Sahiti, F. (2021). ‘Grremçat e atdheut’, Dukagjini Publishing House, ISBN 978-9789951623-
23-0.
• Sahiti, F (2025). Building Industrial Technological Base in Developing Countries. Springer, Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming.
Research papers:
• Sahiti, F. (2023). Unleashing entrepreneurial potential in transition economies: a comparative analysis of the impact of macro and micro policies. European Journal of Government and Economics, 12(2), 119-138.
• Sahiti, F. (2022). Manufacturing firms and entrepreneurial dynamics in less developed economies: Kosovo in comparative perspective’, Int. J. Technological Learning, Innovation and Development, Vol. 14, Nos. 1/2, pp.108–133.
• Sahiti, F. (2021). "Institutions and entrepreneurial activity: a comparative analysis of Kosovo and other economies", Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Vol. 10 No. 1, pp. 98119.
• Esteve-Pérez, S. and Sahiti, F. (2019). “New firm survival in developing countries. Evidence from Kosovo”, The developing Economies, Volume57, 3, pp. 257-273.
• Sahiti, F. (2018). “Do social conditions matter for emergence of innovative firms? The case of Kosovo”, Int. J. Innovation and Regional Development, Vol.8 No.1, pp. 75 - 101.
• Sahiti, F. and Smith, H.L. (2017). An application of growth diagnostics on the growth of firms: with evidence from Kosovo firms, Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Springer, Heidelberg, Vol. 6, 16, pp. 1-24.