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Holistic management – some thoughts on the possibilities of it’s implementation in the West

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This paper addresses holistic management process and the idea of holism, pertained in certain aspects of Western management through the ideas of green marketing and sustainable agriculture. The idea of holism, i.e. consideration for how and in what ways, the sum of all the parts in the company impacts the environment plays especially important role in the companies from the Eastern hemisphere, especially Japan. Since the concept of holistic management is grounded in the Eastern philosophical theories, with profound influence of Buddhism on it, we believe that there might be obstacles in trying to translate it in the so called Western rational management based on the premise of Homo economicus. By outlining the historical development of the Western management thought and the philosophical origins of the holistic management process in the Japanese business, this paper presents some thoughts on the paradigm shift necessary for holism to take full part in the West.

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Characteristics of entrepreneurial networking practices through different phases of establishing a novel innovation firm

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the characteristics of decision making in the entrepreneurial networking practices through different phases of establishing a novel innovation firm characterised with high level of product or service innovativeness and lack of resources. The paper first presents different stages of establishing a firm and its’ distinctive characteristic. Then we explain the characteristics of networking in different stages of the establishment of the firm by the means of two analytical models – that of March’s “Exchange power model” and Burt’s “Structural holes model” in the terms we have called “soft” and “hard” networking. We end with the proposal of sequential use of various networking practices for the purpose of better resource orchestration and leverage of power. Read More

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Shuchu Kiyaku – korporativna društvena odgovornost stara 400 godina

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Iako možda mislimo kako je korporativna društvena odgovornost umotvorina današnjeg vremena, ona je stara koliko su stare i tvrtke. Regule odgovornog poslovnog ponašanja sežu u daleku povijest te ih se tako vrlo često može naći u zemljama koje su bile trgovinske velesile, razmjenjujući svoje proizvode sa tadašnjim poznatim svijetom.
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