
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/">
  <dc:title xml:lang="eng">The relationship between the company size and entrepreneurial activities : the case of Serbia</dc:title>
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  <dc:description xml:lang="eng">ABSTRACT:
More and more companies, regardless of their size start to behave entrepreneurially, adopting
the basic postulates of entrepreneurial business and using entrepreneurial management. While
small enterprises consider entrepreneurial activity as a key source of growth in the market, the
importance of innovation in large enterprises is reflected in their contribution to long-term
sustainability of business through the process of continuous adjustment to changes in the
environment. One of the ways to achieve this is the consolidation of the advantages of small
businesses (creativity, flexibility, innovation, market recognition) with market power and
financial resources of a large enterprise. In order to describe the process of entrepreneurial
activity of already existing enterprises the term corporate entrepreneurship is used in literature.
As the basic dimensions, that is, manifest forms of the concept of corporate entrepreneurship
we can mark off: innovations and ventures and self-renewal activities. Although the literature
emphasizes the importance of entrepreneurial activity of all enterprises, regardless of their size,
in Serbia, entrepreneurial orientation is still most often associated with newly established,
small enterprises. According to previously mentioned, the aim of this paper is to identify, on
the basis of a sample of 208 companies, the current state of entrepreneurial activity within them
and to assess whether there are differences in the level of these activities between small, medium
and large enterprises in Serbia. The analysis was carried out for the total level of corporate
entrepreneurship, but also for its individual dimensions. In order to test the statistical
significance of the differences between the three groups of companies, one-way analysis of
variance (ANOVA) was used, while the Tukey post-hoc test was carried out to identify the
specific groups among which differences exist. The results of the conducted testing indicate that
there are statistically significant differences in the level of entrepreneurial activities between
small and medium-sized enterprises, especially when it comes to innovations and ventures. The
ratio of the level of innovations and ventures from one side to the size of the enterprise on the
other side can be presented by U-curve, which implies that innovations and ventures are the
most represented in the case of large and small enterprises, while their level is the lowest in the
middle ones. On the other hand, self-renewal activities are decreasing with the growth of
enterprise size. The importance of measuring the level of entrepreneurial activities is especially
important for economic policy-makers. More precisely, identifying the dimensions that
represent the cause of the low level of entrepreneurial activity in each of the observed groups
of enterprises can be the first step in creating incentive strategies for their improvement.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:29862</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>ISSN: 1849-7535</dc:identifier>
  <dc:creator id="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3420-1399 https://plus.cobiss.net/cobiss/sr/sr/conor/33451367">Čeliković, Zorica</dc:creator>
  <dc:subject xml:lang="eng">Keywords: corporate entrepreneurship, company size, Serbia</dc:subject>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:date>2018</dc:date>
  <dc:type>info:eu-repo/semantics/article</dc:type>
  <dc:source>Economic and Social Development 35 th International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development – &quot;Sustainability from an Economic and Social Perspective&quot;</dc:source>
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