Darko Kovač

Success factors and competencies in organisational evolution

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate organisational evolution and change forces that influence the adaptation process. Despite significant research interest in this topic, the knowledge is still incomplete.Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines the importance of organisational evolution and introduces two frameworks, five change forces and success factors and competencies, in the process of transformation from the new economy to the innovative economy.Findings – The paper finds that organisational capacity for transformation in response to the economic change forces has become the critical success factor in the ever‐changing business environment where more competition means more intense selection. As organisations fight to remain on the market, unadaptive and consequently unsuccessful rivals fail to capture an adequate market share and have to exit.Research limitations/implications – It would be particularly interesting to conduct studies in different countries to see whether th...

The influence of management capital on enterprise performance

Human capital is becoming more important than economic capital in todays knowledge society. Presented in this study is a financial yardstick for measuring management capital efficiency and human value added, as well as its practical implementation on a research sample of 154 managers in Slovene small and medium enterprises. This study suggests that Slovene managers are not prone to risk taking and dealing with unknowns; moreover, they are neither sufficiently flexible nor intuitive. Study provides a framework for investigation of the role and value add of management.

Entrepreneurial Conative Component of Competences: the Case of Slovenia

Entrepreneurial Conative Component of Competences: the Case of Slovenia Competitive pressures, globalization and economic growth have brought Slovenian enterprises to enhance the role of entrepreneurial competences. The present paper aims to study conative component of entrepreneurial competences as a crucial part of human capital in Slovenian enterprises. The focus of this paper is any eventual disparity of non-teachable attributes of conative component of competences of Slovene enterpreneuer with learned ones rather than the concept of entrepreneurship itself. Authors seperate entrepreneurial competences into three components: cognitive, affective and conative. The purpose of this study is to assess the entrepreneurial conative traits and to investigate the correlation between different conative components of entrepreneurial competences and compare the results to their job-related self-expetations. The conative component of entrepreneurial competences was measures with the Kolbe A™ Index. The study was conducted with 43 Slovenian entrepreneuers from three different enterprises. Independet sample t-test and Pearsons correlation were used to test research aims. SPSS 16.0 was used to analyse the data. The results show conative components of Slovenian entrepreneurial competences, difference between them and individuals job-related self expectations and that the correlation between conative components exist.

Occupational gender segregation in Slovenia: sustainable economy perspective

This paper aims to study occupational gender segregation in Slovenia as one of the indicators of social equity, which is one of the bottom lines of sustainable development, and to compare it to other EU countries. Females in Slovenia are still in an unfavourable position and the process towards a market economy has not solved the issue. The historical effects of declarative equality in Slovenia have resulted in a higher rate of female employees in industrial sectors. However, content equality as measured by the number of female legislators, senior officials, managers and female members of parliament, the gender pay gap and contributing family workers indicates that real equality has not yet been reached. Though occupational gender segregation exists in Slovenia, research shows that females in Slovenia are in a better position regarding occupational segregation than their counterparts in the observed countries and that higher economic development results in higher occupational gender specialisation.