Entrepreneurial passion plays an important role in entrepreneurship, but theoretical understanding of what it is and what it does is lacking. We build on fragmented and disparate extant work to conceptualize the nature of entrepreneurial passion associated with salient entrepreneurial role identities. We also theorize the mechanisms of the experience of entrepreneurial passion that provide coherence to goal-directed cognitions and behaviors during the pursuit of entrepreneurial effectiveness.
COBISS.SI-ID: 18567910
Although research on academics’ spin-off companies has been increasing, knowledge gaps exist as to the specific determinants and processes that characterize the emergence of academics’ entrepreneurial intentions that lead them to spin off companies. This research aims to fill this gap. Drawing from psychological and entrepreneurship research on intentionality, the authors propose a conceptual model of academics’ entrepreneurial intentions. They empirically test the model using structural equation modeling and a data set collected in two European academic settings.
COBISS.SI-ID: 19206886
The purpose of research was to evaluate the competitiveness of tourist destination by exploring the relationships between destination quality, visitor satisfaction and their behavioural intentions. The structural model was tested on a sample of 1,056 visitors at four destinations in Slovenia. The empirical validation indicates that destination attributes affect the perceived quality, which directly and indirectly (through satisfaction) positively influences visitors’ behavioural intentions. Based on our findings we draw some implications for successful marketing of tourist destination.
COBISS.SI-ID: 18588646
Looking back on the experience of transition, the article argues that the transformation of labour market in Slovenia was a major area of transition. The whole transition period (1980 to 2006) is divided into two sub-periods: the period of the transitional crisis and in the period of the transitional rehabilitation. The conclusion is that the labour market responded normally during the transition and that the official statistical data do not reflect major systemic changes that the labour market has supposedly experienced during transition.
COBISS.SI-ID: 18562278
This paper examines the impact of foreign firm entry on the industry consolidation process in a host country that operates through mergers and firms' exit. Using a three-stage oligopolistic model, the paper shows that FDI may trigger consolidation via a merger since the approval of a domestic merger by the antitrust authority is more likely in the case a foreign firm enters via FDI and a firm’s incentive for a domestic merger is greater and that, in turn, the possibility to merge and become more efficient modifies the outcome of the game by making FDI compared to exports less likely.
COBISS.SI-ID: 18858726