The research presented in this article aims to contribute both quantitatively and qualitatively to the discussion on family versus non-family businesses' differences in ethical core values, culture and ethical climate. The purpose of our article is to better understand the association between the degree of involvement of a family in an enterprise and its influence on the enterprise's core values, culture and ethical climate as the constitutional elements of enterprise ethical behaviour. The research indicates that family as well as non-family enterprises maintain positive attitudes towards the core values with ethical content. Regarding the type and strength of culture as well as the type of ethical climate, our research results indicate significant differences between family and non-family enterprises.
COBISS.SI-ID: 10466076
This article provides current Schwartz Values Survey (SVS) data from samples of business managers and professionals across 50 societies that are culturally and socioeconomically diverse. We report the society scores for SVS values dimensions for both individual- and societal-level analyses. At the individual-level, we report on the ten circumplex values sub-dimensions and two sets of values dimensions (collectivism and individualism; openness to change, conservation, self-enhancement, and self-transcendence). At the societal-level, we report on the values dimensions of embeddedness, hierarchy, mastery, affective autonomy, intellectual autonomy, egalitarianism, and harmony. For each society, we report the Cronbach's ? statistics for each values dimension scale to assess their internal consistency (reliability) as well as report interrater agreement (IRA) analyses to assess the acceptability of using aggregated individual level values scores to represent country values. We also examined whether societal development level is related to systematic variation in the measurement and importance of values. Thus, the contributions of our evaluation of the SVS values dimensions are two-fold. First, we identify the SVS dimensions that have cross-culturally internally reliable structures and within-society agreement for business professionals. Second, we report the society cultural values scores developed from the twenty-first century data that can be used as macro-level predictors in multilevel and single-level international business research.
COBISS.SI-ID: 10830876
The chapter discusses entrepreneurship development in Slovenia since 1990 and provides detailed insight into the development of entrepreneurship policy and how it was institutionalised. According to the main tasks policymakers followed, this discussion considers three characteristic periods. The first, between 1991 and 1996, was a period of establishing all the necessary institutions and subsequently introducing the legislation forming the national state and a fullyfledged market economy. The second period, between 1997 and 2003, was heavily characterised by the EU accession process and harmonising Slovenian legislation with Aquis communitaire. The third period, after 2004, saw the establishment of a more coherent SME and entrepreneurship policy. For each of these periods shown are the main tasks, policies, and institutions whose aim was to support SMEs and entrepreneurship. In evaluating the development of entrepreneurship policy in Slovenia and the country’s relevant entrepreneurial institutions, it is clear that significant progress has been made. The overview of policies has shown that, from the early days characterised by the formation of organisations and institutions, passing of different laws, and formulation of general conditions and a framework for SMEs’ environment, Slovenia has developed to a stage where partial policies, programmes, and measures have started to converge into more coherent entrepreneurship policy.
COBISS.SI-ID: 10767388
This paper explored Slovenian entrepreneurs' personal characteristics to understand the existing gender gap in transitional countries, testing the proposed model among small and medium-sized company owners (N = 201; 32.3% female, 67.7% male). The research operationalized entrepreneurs' characteristics according to psychological and non-psychological motivation factors; the former resulted in four types of Slovenian entrepreneurs while the latter was divided into human and social capital. Significant differences emerged among genders related to certain psychological motivation factors and social capital categories, but not human capital. Women remain an unexploited source of entrepreneurship; thus, Slovenia should establish effective mechanisms to promote female entrepreneurship.
COBISS.SI-ID: 10980636
The research concentrates on connections between different dimensions of entrepreneurial capacity and openness towards innovations on one side, and an individual's decision to become an entrepreneur on the other. The results show that an individual's decision to become an entrepreneur in Slovenia is significantly correlated with entrepreneurial awareness, risk aversion and willingness to try new products/services. The correlation is positive in the case of entrepreneurial awareness and in the case of willingness to try new products/services, and negative in the case of risk aversion. An important result of our research is that the belief in the benefits of newness is not significantly correlated with the decision to become an entrepreneur. The results show that willingness to try new products/services is more important than the belief that innovative products/services produced by others will improve one's life.
COBISS.SI-ID: 10519068