The article offers results of the empirical research project on strategic restructuring processes in Slovenian enterprises. The changes in the positions of managing directors of enterprises and developments of the value systems and objectives of Slovenian managers are discussed. The authors show...

The purpose of our exploratory study is to describe the characteristics of a sample of Central and East European students in business and engineering from their cultural assumption perspective. The cluster-distinctive cultural practices are: High Power Distance, In-group and Institutional...

The paper's purpose is to add to the body of knowledge on strategy implementation by systematically studying the activities for and obstacles to strategy execution on a sample of 172 Slovenian companies. The results show that managers mostly rely on planning and organising activities when...

The process of competition between firms can be described as a causalconsecutive sequence. The paper is built on the findings of empirical research based on a sample of 225 Slovenian firms. By using statistical methods we examine which approaches firms use to ensure their competitiveness and,...

The paper’s purpose is to add to the body of knowledge on strategy implementation by systematically studying the activities for and obstacles to strategy execution on a sample of 172 Slovenian companies. The results show that managers mostly rely on planning and organising activities when...

Management process is usually segmented into planning, organizing, leading and controlling. The first and the last of these subprocesses are analyzed in the paper from the economic and managerial viewpoint as they occurr in Slovenian enterprise practice. The focus is on empirical research on a...

In our study, we managed to include companies involved in six different industries. Diversification is the most frequently used corporate strategy. Our study reveals that 43.3% of companies diversified through external means, 26.7% diversified through internal means, while 30% diversified...

This paper deals with some specific characteristics of the acquisition strategy in the Slovenian economy. Some characteristics cannot be compared with Western European developed economies; such characteristics include the incomplete privatisation process, the underdeveloped financial and labour...