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Author(s)
Goran Kutnjak, Matija Radović, Diana Blašković
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DOI:10.17265/1537-1506/2012.07.005
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Goran Kutnjak, Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Business administration, University of Rijeka.
Matija Radović, Assistant, Faculty of Economics, Business administration. University of Rijeka.
Diana Blašković, Ph.D. student, Pharmacy “Ilona Lenac”.
ABSTRACT
Small and medium enterprises are the main institutional medium of the European economy. This is also recognized by the government of the Republic of Croatia, which emphasizes their importance and values their dynamism and capability for revitalizing the Croatian economy, and supports this by ways of subsidies. But, for all the effort, the economic position of small and medium enterprises in the terms of globalization is becoming more complex and uncertain, limited by time and more demanding. This does not correspond with the thesis which states that in the environment and conditions of the modern market economy, which is dynamised by progress in science, technology, information and communication, entrepreneurship has manifested a progressive dimension with the character and needs of all economic activity, as well as a tendency to achieve set objectives and generate change. Recently, after the repeated recession, which was encumbered by the effects of the one before, the conditions of doing business and survival for small and medium enterprises have changed significantly in a negative sense. So, there is a justified cause for questioning earlier stances about small and medium enterprises and their capability to be a motor of development of the Croatian economy, as well as to reevaluate their influence in the context of GDP growth, to focus on the importance and prevalence of certain sectors of the economy, to critically evaluate economic measures which do not lead to a reduction in unemployment and to define the requirements for future development of the small and medium enterprises, which implicates the increased economic efficiency, quality and living standards.
KEYWORDS
requirements, development, small and medium enterprises, Republic of Croatia
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