Research Catalog

Title

Medium-sized firms and economics growth / Janez Prašnikar, editor.

Publication

New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2005], ©2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Prašnikar, Janez.

Description

xxv, 338 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm

Subjects

• Business enterprises > Size > Europe
• Small business > Europe
• Europe > Economic conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Medium-sized firms, their expansion in the world and in Slovenia and their genesis / Janez Prasnikar, Andreja Cirman, Marko Pahor and Anja Milenkovic -- Ch. 2. Threats to success continuity in Italian medium-sized firms / Guido Corbetta -- Ch. 3. Financing medium-sized firms : comparison of Slovenian and Dutch banking systems / Arnoud W. A. Boot, Peter Groznik and Vasja Rant -- Ch. 4. The enterprise sector developments in the Czech Republic : large enterprises and SME perspective / Lubomir Lizal -- Ch. 5. A story of success of a medium-sized family firms : the case of Gruppo SOL / Aleksandra Gregoric -- Ch. 6. Systems integration and e-commerce : managing high growth in a turbulently competitive environment / Karl-Heinz Rau -- Ch. 7. Revitalisation of the Croatian economy with small and medium-sized firms : the SMS case / Zlatan Reic, Danica Bakotic and Ivana Tadic -- Ch. 8. Cluster development in practice - the case of Styrian Automobile Cluster / Christian Hartmann -- Ch. 9. Corporate governance in Slovenian firms : from self-management to blockholder control / Janez Prasnikar, Polona Domadenik, Aleksandra Gregoric and Marko Pahor -- Ch. 10. Innovative and R&D activities of Slovenian firms / Patricia Kotnik -- Ch. 11. Industrial policy to foster medium-sized firms in Slovenia / Tea Petrin -- Ch. 12. Total benchmarking model / Ziga Debeljak, Janez Prasnikar and Ales Ahcan -- Ch. 13. Are Slovenian apparel and footwear industries examples of creative destruction? / Matjaz Koman and Andreja Cirman -- Ch. 14. The marketing model in high-tech medium-sized firms : the cases of Parsek and Smart Com / Mateja Drnovsek -- Ch. 15. Growing through the HRM strategies - Trimo Trebnje / Nada Zupan and Adriana Rejc -- Ch. 16. Mass customisation of products - the case of Alpina / Agata Kopac -- Ch. 17. Performance benchmarking : the case of the Port of Koper / G. Jamnik, P. Groznik, R. Kase, I. Loncarski and A. Valentincic -- Ch. 18. A comparison of clusters in Slovenia, Austria and Italy / Marko Jaklic and Anja Cotic Svetina -- Ch. 19. Export and foreign direct investment of Slovenian firms / Joze P. Damijan and Saso Polanec -- Ch. 20. From local subsidiary to global multinational : the internationalization of Kolektor Idrija / Hugo Zagorsek and Mojca Marc -- Ch. 21. The Prevent Group investments in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Muris Cicic, Nenad Brkic and Melika Husic -- Ch. 22. Slovenian investors in Serbian privatisation : the Kolinska case / Bozidar Cerovic, Goran Petkovic and Sasa Veljkovic.

ISBN

1594542538 (hardcover)

LCCN

2004030804

OCLC

• ocm57344161
• SCSB-5180412

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries