The recent economic crisis has further increased the gap between the group of innovative companies and the ones relying on an efficient exploitation of the traditional factors of production. Building a work environment where every employee is able to develop his/her creativity and his/her...

Competencies of creativity, which are partly intertwined with innovative and entrepreneurial ones, can be encouraged and developed. The purpose of research is to examine whether the appropriate approach establishes a positive classroom climate and consequently, whether the changes occur in the...

The paper reports the results of a survey investigating the practices of idea management in Slovenian companies. Idea management is a formalized mechanism for the creation of inventions and their transformation into innovations in the widest range of employees – nonprofessional inventors, as a...

This monografy analyses the price ranges as a result of the irrational behaviour of the buyers. We establish a new rule in understanding the relationship between quantity and price. In the theoretical and empirical work we demonstrate that the ranges appear to result from unforeseen responses of...

Within the activities of the strategic project KNOW US were performed analyses and described business models of the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the five sectors of the economy across the border of Slovenia and Italy. The sectors involved are: tourism, transport and storage,...

In the book, we present a complete derivation of a specific tool for assessing technological capability of production firms from the appropriate initial conceptualization of technology and firm's technological capability, as well as from the new model (dimensions and parameters) of firm's...

The research analyses the statistical data on the average amount of paid wages. It has been proved that on average the amount of paid wages in the public forestry sector has increased with the introduction of the new wage system under the Public Sector Salary System Act in the area of forestry....

The monograph deals with outsourcing from the point of view of Slovenian enterprises, which accept outsourced activities from strong foreign enterprises. Three research activities - pilot, quantitative and central qualitative - have revealed that Slovenian enterprises frequently enter...

The research investigates theoretical and practical approaches to planning and performance measurement of public libraries, especially pointing out the importance of systematic evaluation of user satisfaction regarding the quality of library services. The results of this study conducted by means...

The article is devoted to the analysis of preconditions of increase in a share of investments of the Russian insurance companies in Russia's GDP. It deals with the features of improving the investment managing methods of their insurance reserves. The causes of enterprises weaken investment...