Three methods were used in this study:
1) analysis of documents, laws and literature in order to determine the theoretical framework of the research, the research results, and the institutional frameworks for transnational business in Serbia and Albania;
2) semi‐structured interviews with 15 transnational entrepreneurs from Serbia and 15 from Albania in order to get to know the characteristics of transnational entrepreneurs and their companies, the ways in which they develop transnational business and the resources that help them in this, as well as the opportunities and obstacles for their business in Serbia/ Albania
and 3) electronic survey with 47 transnational entrepreneurs from Serbia and 23 from Albania in order to further highlight the characteristics of transnational entrepreneurs and enterprises, network characteristics important for the initiation and maintenance of transnational business and comparative business conditions in Serbia and abroad.
In case of Albania (in total 38 respondents) 32 respondents live in Albania, 5 abroad (Italy, Bucharest, Rome, Milan, Istanbul) while one respondent didn’t answer. The info regarding living residence of Albanian respondents is not divided between those who participated in survey and those who were interviewed, so therefore info is presented here.
