Ljudski kapital s jedne te kauzalni i efektualni pristup poduzetništvu sdruge strane postali su važni koncepti u objašnjavanju uspješnosti poslovanjapoduzeća. Iako u literaturi postoje naznake o ...njihovoj teorijskoj svezi,dosad ih nijedno istraživanje nije sagledalo u jednom koherentnom modelu.Ovim radom ispunjava se navedeni istraživački jaz kroz uključivanje jednekategorije ljudskog kapitala, odnosno poduzetničkog iskustva, u empirijskimodel gdje su kauzalni i efektualni pristupi poduzetništvu glavne determinanteposlovne uspješnosti. Relevantni podaci prikupljeni su elektronskimputem pomoću anketnog upitnika na uzorku malog gospodarstva u RepubliciHrvatskoj. Hipoteze koje proizlaze iz predloženog strukturnog modela testiranesu modeliranjem strukturnih jednadžbi temeljenog na pristupu varijance.Rezultati pokazuju kako je poduzetničko iskustvo značajan moderator odnosakauzalnoga pristupa poduzetništvu i poslovne uspješnosti, dok isto nijepotvrđeno za odnos efektualnoga pristupa poduzetništvu i poslovne uspješnosti.Pomoću navedenih rezultata može se istaknuti postojanje važnosti interakcijeljudskog kapitala s jednim od dva temeljna poduzetnička pristupate nužnost daljnjeg teorijskog razvoja oba poduzetnička pristupa kao dvapovezana (a ne suprotna) načina upravljanja poduzećem. Usprkos ograničenjima,primjerice upotrebi presječnih podataka, ishodi ovog istraživanja važni su za konceptualno unaprjeđenje kauzalnog i efektualnog poduzetničkogpristupa te za povećanje njihove praktične primjenjivosti i efektivnosti.
Human capital, on the one hand, and the causal and effectual approach toentrepreneurship, on the other, have become important concepts in explaining theperformance of a firm. Although there are hints in the literature about their theoreticalconnection, research has yet to examine them in one coherent model. Thispaper fills the aforementioned research gap by including one category of humancapital, entrepreneurial experience, in an empirical model where causal and effectualapproaches to entrepreneurship are the main determinants of business performance.Relevant data were collected electronically using a survey questionnaireon a sample of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Republic of Croatia.Structural equation modelling based on the variance approach was used to testhypotheses arising from the proposed structural model. The results show that entrepreneurialexperience is a significant moderator of the relationship between thecausal approach to entrepreneurship and business performance. At the same time,the same was not confirmed for the relationship between the effectual approach toentrepreneurship and business performance. Using the above results, the importanceof the interaction of human capital with one of the two basic entrepreneurialapproaches and the necessity of further theoretical development of both entrepreneurialapproaches as two related (and not opposite) ways of managing a firmcan be highlighted. Despite the limitations, for example, the use of cross-sectionaldata, the results of this research are important for the conceptual improvement ofthe causal and effectual entrepreneurial approach and for increasing their practicalapplicability and effectiveness.
Abstract The expanding research on team emergent states explains many facets of team dynamics in an entrepreneurial context. However, the interactions between team emergent states are still unknown. ...Detached from team emergent states, studies on student entrepreneurship have disclosed findings clustered around students' entrepreneurial intentions while neglecting the issue of persistence with a developed business idea. This study contributes to the literature by proposing an intersection between team emergent states and student entrepreneurial education research via a model where transactive memory systems mediate the effect of team efficacy on team persistence. The model is tested on a sample of student teams using a partial least‐square structural equation modelling approach. The findings support the proposed indirect effect. The study offers theoretical implications for team emergent states and policy implications for entrepreneurial education.
Social Entrepreneurship: Strategic Development in Croatia Kolaković, Marko; Turuk, Mladen; Turčić, Ivan
Zagreb International Review of Economics & Business,
11/2018, Letnik:
21, Številka:
2
Journal Article, Conference Proceeding
Recenzirano
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Social Entrepreneurship is an area of entrepreneurship and economics in general that have become more and more popular in the last 30 years across the whole globe. However, the topics related to ...social entrepreneurship came in focus in Croatia during the past years due to developing and adopting the Strategy for the Development of Social Entrepreneurship in the Republic of Croatia for the period from 2015 to 2020. This paper will provide an overview of the relevant definitions of social entrepreneurship, social entrepreneur and social enterprise (with reference to the Strategy). The aim of this paper is to analyse the strategic framework for development of social entrepreneurship in Croatia and finally, to propose the direction of development of social entrepreneurship in Croatia in the future.
Access to Finance – Experiences of SMEs in Croatia Kolaković, Marko; Turuk, Mladen; Turčić, Ivan
Zagreb International Review of Economics & Business,
03/2019, Letnik:
22, Številka:
1
Journal Article, Conference Proceeding
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Access to finance for small and medium enterprises still represents one of the biggest problems that entrepreneurs face when launching their business or when they want to enhance their production ...capacities in other stages of the enterprise life cycle. Entrepreneurs generally use informal sources of financing when starting their business (3F: family, friends and fools) if they do not have other available sources of financing. There is a common classification in the literature that divides the sources of financing to: informal investors, debt financing, equity financing, government support programs and the entrepreneurs’ own sources. The purpose of the survey conducted for this paper is to determine the sources of used finance of Croatian SMEs and the main problems that SMEs encountered while accessing finance. The second main goal of this article is to identify future needs for financing with potential financing problems that may occur. We gathered data from Croatian SMEs about the sources of funding used over the past three years and about the funding sources that they intend to use in the next three years. In last part of the paper we analyze the results from the survey and from that draw the implications for policy makers and market participants.
Cilj ovoga rada je prikazati mogućnosti i strateške opcije koje poduzetnicima stoje danas na
raspolaganju prilikom odluke o izlasku na međunarodno tržište. Ovim radom želi se naglasiti
nužnost ...kvalitetne pripreme kao i strateškog promišljanja prilikom izbora nastupa
na ciljanom međunarodnom tržištu. U tom kontekstu promatra se i nastup hrvatskih poduzetnika
na međunarodnom tržištu sa ciljem promicanja primjene znanstvenih spoznaja
na ovom području ali i poticanja daljnjeg istraživanja strateških poduzetničkih opcija međunarodnog
poslovanja sa ciljem porasta intenziteta njihove šire primjene.
Teorija intelektualnog kapitala nova je prominentna teorija koja
nije samo izazvala veliku pozornost, već koja uvelike obećava povećanje poslovnih rezultata u budućnosti. Osnovica je teorije ...činjenica da materijalna imovina (zemlja, zgrade, opreme i novac) danas vodećih kompanija u svijetu ima vrijednost manju od nematerijalne imovine koja nije navedena u njihovim poslovnim bilancama. Teorija se zasniva na uvjerenju da se bogatstvo poduzeća temelji na ljudskom kapitalu, strukturalnom kapitalu i na potrošačkom kapitalu. Stvaranje vrijednosti događa se kada se jedan oblik kapitala pretvara u drugi. Na primjer vrijednost se stvara kada god ljudska sposobnost (ljudski kapital) stvara nove poslovne procese (strukturalni kapital), što rezultira boljim uslugama za potrošače i povećava njihovu lojalnost (potrošački kapital).
Jedan od glavnih atributa intelektualnog kapitala jest njegova neopipljivost. Intelektualna je imovina neopipljiva imovina. Ona nema tvrd oblik kao nekretnine (pogoni i oprema – dijelovi fizičkog kapitala), niti ima očitu financijsku vrijednost. Intelektualni se kapital također često opisuje i kao “skrivena imovina”. Zbog toga ga je često teško identificirati i označiti njegovu ekonomsku vrijednost. Cilj je ovoga rada objediniti dosadašnje spoznaje i teorijske okvire ove nove teorije i pokušati definirati smjernice daljeg proučavanja neopipljive imovine poduzeća.
Sustainability at the global and local level constantly requires a contextual understanding of the premise of organizational behavior. We unravel that in fact that currently there is no veritable ...role for design, designers, or design methodology associated with ‘organizational design’. Rather, already practiced organizational designs are analyzed retrospectively through trial and error, for possible change, adaptation, optimization, mutation - in short ‘evolution’ - while the original creation of the system blueprint or architecture is not questioned. The application of such a system to produce sustainability requires reexamination. The design of an organization is a byproduct of tactics and management bureaucracy in postindustrial organizational entities. The role of design is subordinate and residual at best. In this admittedly abstractive albeit critical and empirically supported paper we want to demonstrate that (a) an entrepreneurial perspective on design in the premise of sustainable change is challenged by the paradigmatic and transformational effects of information and information technology in their most recent incarnations (especially with the advent of complex information technology-intensive firms); and (b) that the apparent problematic absence of a design theory and the existence of the firm can be reconciled via the involvement of design managers with their presumed design-methodological grounding. We advocate a tripartite system for designing, producing, and the adaptation of sustainable change: design managers design the firm, managers operate it, and strategists lead and govern it. Thus, in the pursuit of a sustainable world – but contrary to our energy dependent convictions for it - we propose to substitute the anachronistic evolutionary speciation of organizational design with a perspective based on ‘intelligent design’.
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The purpose of this chapter is to present and review: (a) the development of social entrepreneurship in Croatia over the last 10 years; (b) the current state and perspective of the ...development of social entrepreneurship; and (c) strategic documents related to social entrepreneurship with an emphasis on the Strategy for the Development of Social Entrepreneurship 2015–2020 which was an essential document for the promotion and financing of social entrepreneurship. At the beginning of the chapter, the historical reasons for the emergence of the concept of social entrepreneurship are briefly described. Next, entrepreneurship is defined, then entrepreneur, and later the concepts of social entrepreneurship and social entrepreneur are introduced with an emphasis on the differences between commercial and social entrepreneurship. After the basic concepts have been explained, the chapter focusses on social entrepreneurship in Croatia: (a) the types of legal forms in which a social enterprise can be initiated, are listed due to the absence of a separate legal form in Croatian legislation; (b) several examples of positive practices were presented; and (c) the Social Entrepreneurship Development Strategy was analysed by comparing planned and executed activities and allocated and implemented resources. Unfortunately, the strategy did not achieve the expected effect and boosted social entrepreneurship’s development, which slowed growth. Social entrepreneurship in Croatia is still in its initial development phase, and a colossal opportunity has been missed. The government and other stakeholders must make additional efforts to develop social entrepreneurship in Croatia.
U radu su objašnjene promjene koje su u novije vrijeme uočljive u transportnoj
logistici i upravljanju lancem opskrbe, a koje su uzrokovane dubokim promjenama u poslovanju
u novoj (virtualnoj) ...ekonomiji. Osnovni pokretači tih promjena predstavljaju tehničkotehnološki
progres te razvoj informacijske i komunikacijske tehnologije koji su ujedno i pokretači
globalizacije svjetskih tržišta. Globalno poslovanje pruža mogućnost izbora lokacije poslovanja
i smještanja proizvodnje na najpovoljnije lokacije gdje se očekuju najbolji prinosi. U takovom
okruženju i transportno tržište obilježavaju značajne promjene. Struktura svjetske transportne
industrije ubrzano se mijenja. Dolazi do spajanja (mergers) različitih kompanija, dojučerašnjih
konkurenata sa ciljem formiranja dobavljača integriranih transportnih usluga. Novi modeli proizvodnje,
poput virtualne organizacije te just-in-time sustava, također značajno utječu na promjenu
u potražnji za transportnim uslugama. Dok količina koju je potrebno prevesti raste tek
malim stopama, snažan naglasak stavlja se na druge kvalitete transportnih usluga, posebice
brzinu, točnost i pouzdanost dostave.
While the Complex Information Technology-Intensive (CITI) firms of the 'new economy' have contributed to expanding the context and creation of social value in unprecedented ways they still may have a ...dark side: A substantial portion of this new benevolent image and laudable reputation rests on a very specific framework of self interest and self serving preservation and perpetuation with three central tenets: regulatory capture, regulatory arbitrage, and regulatory opportunism. In this paper the attempt is made to expose and reconcile this conflicted character of CITI firms, as their seeming imperative of social value creation is being achieved with controversial quasi-regulatory practices. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
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