Journal for East European Management Studies

Production Coalitions in Slovenian Companies:Employee Participation in Non-Participative Organizations?

According to the theory, a combination of the highly regulated external labour market and the internal rigidity would induce organisational inefficiency. Evidence suggests that theoretically unexpected results of that combination prevailed in Slovenia. Under the pressure of the competition on the international markets, Slovene companies, being trapped in the combination of the two rigidities, were determined to compete on the basis of work intensification. The surviving coalition, based on th...

Editorial: Slovenia 'On Average'?

Web-Based Mission Statements in Slovenian Enterprises

In this article, the author analyses the mission statements of 50 top Slovene enterprises which are published on the companies ' web sites. The purpose of this research is 1) to establish the degree to which the Slovene enterprises make use of their web sites to convey their mission to various stakeholders, 2) to identify the stakeholder groups that are mentioned in mission statements, and 3) to analyse the contents of these statements. My research has shown that there are some significant di...

The Cornerstones of Corporate Strategies in Slovenia and Croatia (Research Note)

In our study, we managed to include companies involved in six different industries. Diversification is the most frequently used corporate strategy. Our study reveals that 43.3% of companies diversified through external means, 26.7% diversified through internal means, while 30% diversified through both internal and external methods. Retrenchment strategies are relatively unpopular because retrenchment seems to imply failure. The orientation of most top management towards growth strategies has ...

Toward Contingency Theory of Performance Measurement

Performance measurement, although extensively studied in the last two decades, has been given relatively little consideration in terms of the factors that influence the design of performance measurement systems. Few organisations appear to have systematic processes in place for managing the evolution of their measurement systems and few researchers appear to have explored the question, what determines the design of an organisation 's measurement system? The paper addresses this gap by providi...

Recruitment of Employees: Administrative Burdens On Slovenian Smes in Comparison with Europe

In recent years, the issue of administrative burden on enterprises due to legislation has received much attention. Everywhere it is acknowledged that it is important to reduce and minimize this administrative burden as far as possible, because it hinders the development of enterprises and the growth of employment. In this paper we present the required procedures governing employment regulation, the administrative burden that results out of them, and finally we draw conclusions and make some r...

Book Reviews

Marketing Strategies for Central and Eastern Europe, Ashgate

Marketing strategies for Central and Eastern Europe edited by S. Arnold, P. Chadraba, and R. Springer is reviewed.

News / Information

'Cultures in Transition': Joint Congress of Sietar Europe and Sietar Germany

SIETAR, the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research is a global network encompassing regional and national sections. In 2004, the Humboldt University in Berlin hosted the annual congress of SIETAR Europe and SIETAR Germany. The hosts of the congress were Prof. Henze and his team from 'Comparative Educational Sciences'. The university maintains intensive research and exchange relations with universities in CEE (Central and Eastern Europe), especially with those in Ex-Soviet ...