The 10th international scientific conference mic was held in 2009. The conference was organized by the Faculty of Management of the University of Primorska in Koper, EMUNI and the University of Soussa under the title Creativity, Innovation and Management to coincide with the European Year of...

The research on business students’ attitudes toward some ethical aspects is presented. Although the research dealt with students’ (future business persons’) perceptions of managerial ethics in general, the part of the research that focused on some of the ethically questionable students’...

Globalization is a heavily debated phenomenon and can be studied from many perspectives. In the present paper the perspective of the discourse of management is presented. Management as an idea and as practice is also a critically contested phenomenon in today's fast changing world. In this paper...

Standard methods to assess the statistical quality of econometric models implicitly assume there is only one person in the world, namely the forecaster with her model(s), and that there exists an objective and independent reality to which the model predictions may be compared. However, on many...

This paper investigates empirically the determinants of political stability in one-party states, taking as an example socialist Yugoslavia. The authors assume that the number of the party members is an indicator of the stability of the regime and perform a time series analysis for the six...

We use EBRD transition index to classify transition countries into gradualist and orthodox reformers. When comparing this classification with records of economic and political reforms before the breakdown of socialism, an apparent historical regularity emerges. Countries where transition was to...

The report on the workshop Measuring Law and Institutions highlights two topics. One is the World Bank governance indicators; improvements in governance significantly increase national income. The other is the importance of legal origins; different legal traditions are supposed to influence...

We contribute to the scant empirical literature on court activity by examining how judicial staffing and caseload influence court output in Slovenia, a post-socialist EU member state struggling with implementing an effective judicial system. Unlike the majority of the existing literature, we...

We consider the new EU member states as semi-peripheral countries standing at the development crossroads. We emphasize the sociocultural factors of development, present a model for bringing together several cultural and social influences, and test its validity by applying a fuzzy-set...