Since science recognizes the fact that an enterprise passes through different life cycle stages, and that life cycle stages differ in terms of management systems, formal structures, control systems, documentation of transactions, and number of procedural hurdles, our main research problem was...

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...

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...

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,...