New venture can be considered a type of the invention-innovation-diffusion process resulting in innovation, if it transforms an invention into a new benefit for its users, authors, and owners. New ventures succeed in a similarly small percentage as other innovative attempts do. Chapter contributes Dialectical systems-theory perspective in order to point to the need for creative co-operation of different disciplines, so that they would better use their capabilities by making synergies of several of them.
COBISS.SI-ID: 10616348
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
This paper introduces necessary key policy support guidance for the internationalization of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Slovenia. It is based on an examination of barriers to the internationalization of SMEs and an evaluation of policy support to SMEs in Slovenia. For this purpose the mean importance of the primary motives for entering foreign markets, the barriers and problems to entering and doing business at foreign markets, as well as the knowledge and expectations about governmental and non-governmental support services were measured in the first part of the empirical research. In the second part of the research, teh web portal of Slovenian Public Agency for Entrepreneurship and Foreign Investment (PAEFI) was analysed with the intention to evaluate a website's contribution in complying with key PAEFI goals - primarily, providing support for SME activities.
COBISS.SI-ID: 10960668