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The entrepreneur is regarded as crucial for a firm's international strategies and the central factor explaining a firm's international behaviour (Andersson, 2000). Research into the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has emphasized the role of entrepreneur-related elements that impact export performance, such as: strategy (Baird, Lyles, & Orris, 1994; Tyebjee, 1994); attitudes (Bijmolt & Zwart, 1994; Ogbuehi & Longfellow, 1994); commitment (Dhanaraj & Beamish, 2003); perceptions (Jaffe & Pasternak, 1994); orientations (Dichtl et al., 1984); the international experience of managers (Qian, 2002; Reuber & Fischer, 1997); as well as more integrative human capital elements (Andersson, 2000; Bilkey & Tesar, 1977; Cavusgil, 1993; Herrm...
... collected data using a postal survey of Slovenian firms. The questionnaire was addressed to the top ... sales by asking to which of the five regions (each increasingly 'distant' from the domestic mar...
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... Directive 98/27/EC. Slovenia. Representative Action. Scope. Consumer pr... Institute) and their equivalents in the Regions (Comunidades Autónomas). Consumers Associations...
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...DISPLAYS: The four regions of the country were well laid out, with an array o...DRINK: Slovenian brews, wines. The slightly bitter LaŰko Pivo be...
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Furthermore, it focuses on the shared characteristics of the changing family demographics, family relations, childbearing practices and family policies in interrelation with the collapse of the socialistic system. For those who more intensively want to deal with the family issues of the regions, the book provides a very informative chapter about family research which provides new ideas for future research topics.
... and Danuta Duch (Poland), Mirjana Ule (Slovenia), Divna Lakinska-Popovska and Suzana Bornarova (Ma...
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The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of control, socioeconomic and sociocultural variables on attitudes toward traditional gender roles, degree of participation and time spent on domestic tasks during the week and weekend by men and women. The study involved 600 people (405 men, 195 women) selected through random sampling method from a total of 3536 staff of Hacettepe University, Beytepe and main campuses, ranging in age from 21-66, all married, and with children. According to ordinary least squares regression results, control, socioeconomic, and sociocultural variables had significant effects on attitudes toward traditional gender roles and degree of participation in domestic tasks, but only the control variables had a significant effect on time spent on domestic tasks d...
... are found among countries and different regions. In the size of the gender gap, with respect to su... in West Germany, Japan, Poland, and Slovenia were less likely man respondents Uving in thé Uni...
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... energy to the Midwest and Northeast regions of the U.S. and also has small markets with Manito..., Hungary, Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, and Slovenia. . (55.) The Sectoral Classification List, W/120, ...
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The fall of communism in late 1980s and the post-communist socio-economic and political transition determined a resurgence of Eastern European immigrants as a new phenomenon in United States. Examining Eastern European immigrants will increase the understanding of today's diverse immigrant population and their adaptation in the host society. Using the data from the 2002-2004 Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey, the purpose of this article is to facilitate an understanding of the characteristics of Eastern European immigration. Systematic research on Eastern European immigrants could increase the understanding of today's diverse immigrant population and their adaptation to the new society.
... interests and involvement in the sending regions and countries (Rumbaut and Portes, 2001). These in..., Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia, and three aspirants, Albania, Croatia, and the fo...
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... Republic, Hungary, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia. Canada does not perform well when compared to cou... of the educational system across various regions of a country implies that S may be viewed as a goo...
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This special issue presents articles which explore how gender relations evolved in rural families in the context of the ongoing transformation of rural life at large and farming in specific related to the global trends of modernisation. The effects of modernisation on rurality are contextual. The case studies in this volume represent diverse patterns of modernisation along different paths to industrialisation (cases studies from Northern, highly industrialised versus Southern late industrialised countries) as well as along different paths to capitalism (see the case studies from post-socialist societies). Large-scale socioeconomic forces led to the transition and dissolution of the "traditional farm family". New forms of existence emerge for rural families complementing and even replaci...
... as in Greece) or in less industrialised regions of industrialised countries (such as in Umbria). F... move towards Western European models (Slovenia), some towards Scandinavian (Baltic countries), an...
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... to the breakaway republics of Slovenia and Croatia. But most of the anxiety about Germany... what used to be called the `out-of-area' regions - then it would be logical to assume that Germany ...