In the last decade there has been an extensive debate in transition countries on whether ownership matters for company performance. The key issue has been whether outsider ownership outperforms ...insider ownership. This paper examines the influence of several variables — insider ownership, ownership by the state and municipalities, market share and the share of exports — on company performance in a sample of 488 Slovenian industrial companies after their ownership transformation. Econometric estimations demonstrate, contrary to the expectations based on previous Slovenian studies, that insider ownership does enhance performance. Market share has the expected positive influence on value added, whereas the influence of exports is negative due to the export reorientation to Western markets and the exchange rate policy in 1998. The effect of state ownership is statistically insignificant.
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Highly turbulent and competitive business environment has directed a focus of many researchers as well as practitioners on to the field of organizational learning as a way of gaining and sustaining ...competitiveadvantage. One of the most important issues is its relation to information-communication technologies.The purpose of this paper is to examine prior research and propose a model linking Organizational Learning construct (OL) to Information-communication technologies (ICT). Using structural equationmodeling methodology, we tested this relationship based on the data from 220 questionnaires received from top managers of 867 Slovenian companies with more than 100 employees in the year 2003. Our research demonstrates statistically significant positive correlation between OL and ICT.
Globalni pritisci konkurencije prisiljavaju tvrtke da se sve više usredotočuju na menadžment troškova koji je oduvijek bio temeljna sastavnica uspješne poslovne strategije. Kao rezultat toga, veliki ...broj tvrtki primjenjuje novu filozofiju i tehnike upravljanja troškovima (u ovome se članku koristi skraćenica CCMS u značenju “suvremene koncepcije menadžmenta troškova”) i napušta tradicionalne tehnike računa troškova. Svrha ovog članka jest istaknuti značaj uporabe CCMS u tvrtkama koje su suočene s brzim promjenama poslovnog okruženja, osobito u tvrtkama u tranzicijskim gospodarstvima. Članak daje rezultate temeljene na opsežnom istraživanju provedenom u 264 slovenskih tvrtki. Ovo istraživanje imalo je za cilj utvrditi da li u slovenskim tvrtkama postoji temeljno razumijevanje i korištenje CCMS-a i postoji li veza između veličine tvrke i uporabe CCMS-a, te na koji način uporaba CCMS-a utječe na uspješnost poslovanja tvrtki
