1. SME top management perception of environmental uncertainty and gender differences during COVID-19Sabina Veršič, Polona Tominc, Tjaša Štrukelj, 2022, original scientific article Abstract: Environmental scanning has become increasingly crucial for an organisation’s existence and a matter of interest for scholars and professionals. This research presents an outline of the situation in the field of multidimensional environmental scanning, focusing on Slovenian micro, small and medium sized organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the paper aims to examine if top managers perceive the multidimensional (external) environment as uncertain and if there have been gender differences in multidimensional (external) environmental uncertainty perception during the COVID-19 pandemic. We researched the field of ecological, social, technological, economic, and political–legal environments. The nonparametric Mann–Whitney U test and descriptive statistics were used to test the research hypotheses. The results show that top managers are not aware enough of multidimensional environmental uncertainty. They do not perceive the ecological and social environment as unpredictable at all. Among the studied environments, they perceive the political–legal environment as most unpredictable. There are no statistically significant gender differences in perceptions of ecological, social, technological, economic, and political–legal environmental uncertainty. We suggest SME top managers pay more attention to environmental uncertainty and use environmental scanning methods to achieve more sustainable development.
Keywords: strategic management, environmental uncertainty, ecological environment, social environment, technological environment, economic environment, political–legal environment, SME top managers, COVID-19 pandemic, Slovenia
Published in DKUM: 05.07.2024; Views: 146; Downloads: 28
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2. Crosswalk of most used metadata schemes and guidelines for metadata interoperability (Version 1.0)Milan Ojsteršek, 2021, complete scientific database of research data Abstract: This resource provides crosswalks among the most commonly used metadata schemes and guidelines to describe digital objects in Open Science, including:
- RDA metadata IG recommendation of the metadata element set,
- EOSC Pilot - EDMI metadata set,
- Dublin CORE Metadata Terms,
- Datacite 4.3 metadata schema,
- DCAT 2.0 metadata schema and DCAT 2.0 application profile,
- EUDAT B2Find metadata recommendation,
- OpenAIRE Guidelines for Data Archives,
- OpenAire Guidelines for literature repositories 4.0,
- OpenAIRE Guidelines for Other Research Products,
- OpenAIRE Guidelines for Software Repository Managers,
- OpenAIRE Guidelines for CRIS Managers,
- Crossref 4.4.2 metadata XML schema,
- Harvard Dataverse metadata schema,
- DDI Codebook 2.5 metadata XML schema,
- Europeana EDM metadata schema,
- Schema.org,
- Bioschemas,
- The PROV Ontology.
Keywords: crosswalk, metadata, EDMI metadata set, Dublin CORE, Datacite 4.3 metadata schema, DCAT 2.0 metadata schema, UDAT B2Find metadata recommendation, OpenAIRE Guidelines for Data Archives, OpenAire Guidelines for literature repositories 4.0, OpenAIRE Guidelines for Other Research Products, OpenAIRE Guidelines for Software Repository Managers, OpenAIRE Guidelines for CRIS Managers, Crossref 4.4.2 metadata XML schema, Harvard Dataverse metadata schema, DDI Codebook 2.5 metadata XML schema, Europeana EDM metadata schema, Schema.org, Bioschemas, The PROV Ontology
Published in DKUM: 21.09.2021; Views: 2030; Downloads: 75
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3. Dimensions of decision-making process quality and company performance : a study of top managers in SloveniaDamjan Grušovnik, Alenka Kavkler, Duško Uršič, 2017, original scientific article Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between the dimensions of the decision-making process quality and company performance of top managers’ in Slovenia. We found out that companies whose managers exhibit an above-average dimension of openness of spirit in the quality of the decision making process, on average, have a higher stance on foreign markets as companies in which managers show a below-average open spirit. For the managers who work in companies that are present in foreign markets, we could confirm that there is a low/weak correlation between the dimension of effort of the decision-making process quality and the number of employees in a company.
Keywords: quality of the decision-making process, rationality, motivation, participation, exhaustivity of the information, managers effort, creativity and innovativeness, company stakeholders, company performance
Published in DKUM: 03.05.2018; Views: 1593; Downloads: 218
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4. Hotels and Halal-oriented products : what do hotel managers in Slovenia think?Metod Šuligoj, Helena Maruško, 2017, original scientific article Abstract: Background and Purpose: Tourists from the Islamic world are significant stakeholders in the tourism market. The purpose of this paper is to identify the key aspects of halal tourism in connection with the hotel industry. Furthermore, we want to determine whether hotel managers are familiar with halal certification and on what basis they would opt for it.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The research focuses on halal goods, services, and facilities, in general, and specifically in Slovenian hotels; concepts, contemporary trends, and the situation in Slovenia are presented. In response to the literature review, we applied the analysis of the factor loadings to define the important factors that influence the decision-making process; by applying PCA, we reduced the dependent variable to a single factor (although predictions were slightly different).
Findings: The most important elements in the adoption of the certificate are the simplicity and efficiency of the procedure itself and the fact that the process does not require major financial investments. The element that significantly influences the managers% decision-making process is the possibility of adjusting to the standard of the certificate.
Conclusion: The paper's main contribution is to deepen the perspective of the development of tourism in an area that remains a relatively undeveloped and unknown niche within the Slovenian tourism/hospitality industry but very promising in the global context.
Keywords: hotel managers, halal certificate, Islam, thematic offer, Slovenia, Croatia
Published in DKUM: 23.01.2018; Views: 1137; Downloads: 200
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5. The influence of one's own database on the accuracy of forecasting future movements of investment portfolio valueVesna Trančar, 2017, original scientific article Abstract: The main purpose of this article is to present the test results of the hypothesis that the use of one’s own (and foreign) database (used by investment portfolio managers to create indicators of individual stock analyses) has an effect on the accuracy of forecasting future movements of investment portfolio value. In addition to the use of different indicators and methods of stock analysis, the creation of an optimal investment portfolio requires assessment of the suitability and adequacy of the database used in investment portfolio managers′ decisionmaking process; in other words, it is necessary to determine which stocks are to be included in the specific investment portfolio and which are not. The problem of the selection and use of different databases is linked to the question of determining the importance of numerous relevant elements when creating an optimal investment portfolio.
Keywords: database, investment portfolio, investment portfolio managers, stocks
Published in DKUM: 14.11.2017; Views: 1339; Downloads: 373
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6. Why European subordinates trust their managersJon Aarum Andersen, Jure Kovač, 2012, original scientific article Abstract: This article addresses the problem of why subordinates trust their managers based on the responses from 108 subordinates of seven Slovenian managers and from 138 subordinates of eight Swedish managers. The subordinates of these managers responded to a 20-item instrument tested for reliability and validity. In both samples the managers enjoyed different degrees of trust. The level of trust vested in Slovenian managers was higher than in Swedish ones. The kinds of managers’ actions that enhanced trust were similar amongst Swedish and Slovenian subordinates. Different socio-cultural contexts may theoretically explain why some other kinds of actions had contrasting effects between the samples. On the whole, the actions of managers explain trust in both countries. Subordinates’ trust in managers declines with the increasing hierarchical distance in both national samples. Managers need to show in action that they trust their subordinates, promote their interests, demonstrate appreciation of their subordinates, and solve problems.
Keywords: trust, managers, subordinates, societal factors, hierarchy
Published in DKUM: 10.07.2015; Views: 1388; Downloads: 421
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