The main goal of our research was to examine the importance of transferring tacit and experiential knowledge as well as social capital of founders for innovativeness of the next family generation, i.e. successors in smaller family firms. Data were collected through in-depth case studies,...

Venture capital is an important factor in the development of entrepreneurship and in the establishment of new, knowledge-and-technology-based companies. In transition economies, the intensity of equity investing is far behind the developed market economies, making the EU and individual...

In accordance with the basic developmental goals of EU, expressed in the Lisbon strategy [1], Slovenia is aiming to become competitively successful state. One of the Slovenia’s goals is also to be placed among ten the most successful EU member states. Considering the governmental strategic...

In the contribution we represent how the knowledge on the MER Model of integral management is built in the master's study programs on the case of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Maribor. The MER Model of integral management has been developing at the research Institute...

The main goal of our research is to explore the role of culture for improving the dynamics of an enterprise. Our basic proposition is that the culture of an enterprise importantly impact enterprise’s propensity toward dynamics. The presented research cognitions show that enterprises with the...

Family enterprises are important to many established market economies; however, little empirical research has been conducted to identify the importance and distinctiveness of family enterprises in postsocialist transition economies. Our exploratory study examines how family ownership and...

At the entrepreneurial research level several models of the enterprise development have been created and proposed. These models can be placed into several groups, such as metamorphic models, models of crises, models of markets development, and models of structural and behavioural changes. Also...