Entrepreneurial Conative Component of Competences: the Case of Slovenia

• Authors: Darko Kovač , Maja Meško , Andrej Bertoncelj
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Competitive pressures, globalization and economic growth have brought Slovenian enterprises to enhance the role of entrepreneurial competences. The present paper aims to study conative component of entrepreneurial competences as a crucial part of human capital in Slovenian enterprises. The focus of this paper is any eventual disparity of non-teachable attributes of conative component of competences of Slovene enterpreneuer with learned ones rather than the concept of entrepreneurship itself. Authors seperate entrepreneurial competences into three components: cognitive, affective and conative. The purpose of this study is to assess the entrepreneurial conative traits and to investigate the correlation between different conative components of entrepreneurial competences and compare the results to their job-related self-expetations. The conative component of entrepreneurial competences was measures with the Kolbe A™ Index. The study was conducted with 43 Slovenian entrepreneuers from three different enterprises. Independet sample t-test and Pearson's correlation were used to test research aims. SPSS 16.0 was used to analyse the data. The results show conative components of Slovenian entrepreneurial competences, difference between them and individual's job-related self expectations and that the correlation between conative components exist.

Keywords

EN

Entrepreneurship; conative entrepreneurial competences; Kolbe A™; Index; Kolbe B™; Index; Slovenia

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 247-256

Dates

published

2010-11-01

online

2010-12-14

Contributors

author

Darko Kovač

• Faculty of Management, University of Primorska

author

Maja Meško

• Faculty of Management, University of Primorska

author

Andrej Bertoncelj

• Faculty of Management, University of Primorska

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10051-010-0025-y