Entrepreneurial passion plays an important role in entrepreneurship, but theoretical understanding of what it is and what it does is lacking. We build on fragmented and disparate extant work to conceptualize the nature of entrepreneurial passion associated with salient entrepreneurial role identities. We also theorize the mechanisms of the experience of entrepreneurial passion that provide coherence to goal-directed cognitions and behaviors during the pursuit of entrepreneurial effectiveness.
COBISS.SI-ID: 18567910
The paper examines factors impacting firms’ decisions to invest in energy efficiency and clean technologies. Employing (bivariate) probit models on a panel data set for Slovenian manufacturing firms over the 2005–2011 period, the paper finds that decisions to invest in energy efficiency and in clean technologies are impacted by similar, yet not identical factors. The following factors positively influence both types of investment: share of energy costs, market share, export orientation and favourable managers’ expectations. Importantly, other types of investments except for investments in the expansion of existing capacities do not crowd-out energy efficiency or clean technology investments. Further, the economic and financial crisis only reduces the likelihood of clean technology investments. This is explained by the fact that investments in energy efficiency represent a cost-effective solution for the firm. In addition, industry-specific characteristics, which capture the effect of industry differences in environmental regulation and other conditions, also play an important role. Based on the paper’s findings, it can be concluded that the energy efficiency gap is less likely to exist in large and well-performing firms.
COBISS.SI-ID: 23054822
This paper analyses the willingness to pay for electricity generated from renewable energy sources in Slovenia. The results confirm that age, household income, education and environmental awareness play the most important role in explaining household attitudes to green electricity programmes. While the willingness to participate in green electricity programmes is influenced by education and environmental awareness, the willingness to pay for green electricity predominantly depends on household income. The expressed median willingness to pay is found to exceed the current level of mandatory charges for green electricity. Nevertheless, recent increases in final electricity prices might have already exhausted the capacity for additional voluntary contributions.
COBISS.SI-ID: 20874214
The purpose of research was to evaluate the competitiveness of tourist destination by exploring the relationships between destination quality, visitor satisfaction and their behavioural intentions. The structural model was tested on a sample of 1,056 visitors at four destinations in Slovenia. The empirical validation indicates that destination attributes affect the perceived quality, which directly and indirectly (through satisfaction) positively influences visitors’ behavioural intentions. Based on our findings we draw some implications for successful marketing of tourist destination.
COBISS.SI-ID: 18588646
Achieving competitive advantage for any destination in times of rapid global change requires tourism stakeholders to have a clear understanding of tourism trends. The challenges are particularly acute for emerging destinations such as Slovenia. The paper discusses tools for measuring destination performance with particular focus on Importance Performance Analysis (IPA). The findings reveal that there are a number of areas in which the Slovene tourism industry considers itself to be under performing in the implementation of strategies to eliminate drift. Relevant policy implications can be derived from the findings.
COBISS.SI-ID: 20062950
The authors explore the consequences of demographic ageing on healthcare demand in Slovenia for primary care, secondary care, hospital day-care treatments, and hospitalisations. Empirical analysis shows that the smallest increase in the number of treatments occurs in primary care, a larger one for secondary care, and the largest for hospital day-care services and hospitalisations (up to 29.9 percent). The structure of demand will also change. Demand for healthcare services for children and infants will decrease while demand for diseases associated with older age groups will increase, particularly for diseases of the circulatory system, eye and adnexa, and diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs. The results show that the healthcare system in Slovenia will face a major additional burden in the next 20 years.
COBISS.SI-ID: 23274470
In this study, we show that entrepreneurs' positive feelings of entrepreneurial passion are positively associated with venture growth. We focus on a specific type of entrepreneurial passion—passion for developing a venture. Based on the findings from our study, we suggest that it is important for entrepreneurs to channel their passion for developing toward identifying challenging business goals and increasing commitment to business goals. We show that entrepreneurs who increase commitment toward business goals based on passion for developing realize higher venture growth. However, developing challenging goals based on passion does not lead to higher venture growth.
COBISS.SI-ID: 23091174
The paper explains right to travel from philosophical perspective – as basic and equal right for all the world citizens. It explains the concept of world citizenship and national citizenship and how both relate to justice and responsibility for sustainable tourism development. It suggests extended understanding of just international tourism, which has the ability to balance unequal travel propensity of travelling and non-travelling nations which means unequal consumption of world resources. The solution to unbalanced consumption and travel distribution is presented through tradable tourism certificates and tourism certificate exchange. Certificate exchange balances surplus and minus in travel participation and creates financial flows from traveling towards non-traveling (less developed) nations. The new financial resources should be used for development, on the account of non-participation of consumption of world resources through (non)traveling.
COBISS.SI-ID: 22401766
The article investigates the psychological determinants of entrepreneurial start-up decisions and intentions by contrasting entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs as regards the big five personality factors (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) by using data from Slovenia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 22632678
This paper contributes to the current, lively debate on which factors induce or hinder the deployment of next generation networks (NGNs), where regulatory design plays the key role. As a country with one of the highest levels of fibre deployment, intense infrastructural competition in urban areas and regulated access to both copper and fibre networks, Slovenia is an interesting case to explore using the recent theoretical and empirical findings. First, the impacts of regulation and other factors on investment decisions are explored. Second, the impact of NGN investments on investors' performance is analysed and explained, and we focus on both the investors' business strategies and the demand for NGN services. Third, the regulatory policy in both regimes, namely, before and after the mandated access to fibre was implemented, is discussed and changes are proposed.
COBISS.SI-ID: 21560806