Blagoje Paunović, Zorica Aničić,
The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the business operations of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Serbia as well as to identify the best ways to overcome the crisis effects and stimulate further SME growth. On a sample of 689 SMEs in Serbia, in the present paper we study the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on both the overall business of firms and certain aspects of their business (demand, logistics, organization of business activities, collection of trade ...
Tópico(s): Regional Development and Management Studies
2021 - | Ekonomika preduzeca
Dragiša Mijačić, Blagoje Paunović,
The paper presents a legislative and institutional framework of regional development in Serbia, as well as the analysis of regional disparities across different geography, elaborated through six selected indicators: population and population density (analyzed as a single indicator), Regional GDP, Employment, Unemployment, Business Demography and Budgetary Revenues per capita. Indicators are analyzed at the all three NUTS, as defined by the Law on Regional Development, and at the local level (cities ...
Tópico(s): Hungarian Social, Economic and Educational Studies
2011 - | Ekonomika preduzeca
Jelena Kočović, Blagoje Ž. Paunović, Marija Jovović,
The possibilities for growth of the insurance sector and its contribution to the development of the national economy are conditioned by business performance of insurance companies. This paper presents results of the assessment of performance of companies engaged in non-life insurance business in Serbia. Empirical research was conducted on the basis of financial statements of non-life and composite insurers during the period 2006-2013 by using CARMEL indicators and multiple regression analysis. The ...
Tópico(s): Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
2014 - | Ekonomika preduzeca
The purpose of this paper is to highlight importance of entrepreneurship in gaining and maintaining competitive advantage in large companies. The paper examines following four forms of corporate entrepreneurship and its development modalities: Corporate venturing, Intrapreneurship, 'Bringing the market inside', and Entrepreneurial transformation. The paper has demonstrated that lack of entrepreneurial focus is not necessarily an outcome of company's developmental growth, i.e. that lack of entrepreneurial ...
Tópico(s): Private Equity and Venture Capital
2012 - | Ekonomika preduzeca
Zorica Aničić, Blagoje Paunović,
This paper investigates SMEs’ responses to the COVID-19 crisis and the significance of specific government support measures for overcoming the crisis effects. The results show that SMEs have mostly implemented retrenchment and persevering strategies, whereas innovation and exit strategies were less used, as well as that the strategy selection depends on both the severity of the COVID-19 impact on individual business segments and SME specificities. Additionally, the analysis reveals that, from the ...
Tópico(s): Business and Economic Development
2022 - Rainer Hampp Verlag | Journal of East European Management Studies
Jelena Kočović, Marija Koprivica, Blagoje Paunović,
Solvency II as a new, risk-based regulatory framework for the insurance sector, setting high requirements in terms of capital adequacy, risk management and reporting for insurance companies, has been applied in the European Union as of January 1st, 2016. The paper deals with the analysis of the first effects of Solvency II on the insurers' balance sheet and solvency, based on the published statistical data. Risk margin sensitivity to interest rates, volatility of the capital, high and imprecise ...
Tópico(s): Insurance and Financial Risk Management
2017 - | Ekonomika preduzeca
Jelena Kočović, Blagoje Ž. Paunović, Marija Jovović,
Owing the time gap between the premium collection and the benefit payments, insurance companies invest temporarily free funds of technical reserves and thus fulfill an important role of institutional investors. The paper deals with the analysis of the investment possibilities of insurance companies in Serbia in terms of the existing regulatory constraints and the financial market development level. The optimal portfolio of assets used to cover technical reserves of non-life insurers is constructed ...
Tópico(s): Regional Development and Management Studies
2015 - | Ekonomika preduzeca
Edvard Jakopin, Jurij Bajeć, Blagoje Paunović,
The recession did not affect all the regions with the same intensity, as some were more resilient than others. The differences in regional resilience, besides the labor market, have mostly reflected on regional branches of the manufacturing industry. Developed industrial branches within the manufacturing industry have been affected the most. In addition, key economic parameters (employment and value added) in the entrepreneurial sector decreased by 20%. The in-depth research in the study is aiming ...
Tópico(s): Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
2016 - | Ekonomika preduzeca
Blagoje Paunović, Valentina Ivanić,
The integration of small and medium-sized enterprises (hereinafter referred to as SMEs), operating in transition economies, into global division of labour is characterized by barriers that are not only caused by the size of those enterprises, but also by the fact that these are the companies with limited experience in the internationalization of business operations. The barriers that SMEs can be exposed to while entering international markets can be overcome when the governments choose the most effective ...
Tópico(s): Global trade and economics
2018 - | Ekonomika preduzeca
Jasna Zarkovic, Dragiša Mijačić, Blagoje Paunović,
This paper presents key findings of the research on Roma entrepreneurship in the context of the overall entrepreneurial population in Serbia, and general characteristics of ethnic minority entrepreneurship in the world. The paper's objective is to show the importance of the development of Roma entrepreneurship for the solutions to economic and social problems of this ethnic group. The survey of 45 registered Roma entrepreneurs on the territory of the Republic of Serbia revealed that the majority ...
Tópico(s): Regional Development and Management Studies
2016 - | Ekonomika preduzeca
Valentina Ivanić, Blagoje Paunović,
Cilj članka je da se predstavi komparativne prednosti Vojvodine, da se ukaže na nedovoljno iskorišćene mogućnosti i da definiše sredstva, instrumente i privredne politike koji bi mogli da utiču na povećanje konkurentnosti privrede Vojvodine.Sredstva i instrumenti privredne politike za adekvatnije reagovanje vlasti na pokrajinskom nivou su posmatrana u kontekstu novog modela razvoja Srbije koji predstavlja odgovor na globalnu finansijsku krizu, u kontekstu promenjenog pravnog okvira kada je Vojvodina ...
Tópico(s): Global Trade and Competitiveness
2010 - Društvo za Regionalne Nauke | DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Tourism and Regional Development
Analiza preduzetnickog procesa ukazuje na tri osnovne pokretacke sile razvoja novih preduzeca. To su: preduzetnik, mogucnosti i resursi. Iako nasa zemlja raspolaže solidno preduzetnickom bazom, da bi se podstakao relativno samodovoljan balansira razvoja novih preduzeca neophodno je razviti razgranatu mrežu razlicitih institucija, organizacija i udruženja na razlicitim nivoima za pružanje podrske osnivanju i razvoju preduzeca. Time bi se obezbedila organizaciona, savetodavna, tehnicka, ali i finansijska ...
Tópico(s): Regional Development and Management Studies
2001 - | Ekonomika preduzeca
Fondovi 'smelog' kapitala kao investitori neposredno povezani sa preduzetnickim firmama mogu znacajno doprineti resavanju dva goruca problema nase privrede - neefikasnost upravljanja preduzecima i nedostatak kapitala za restrukturiranje i investicije. lako nisu najvažniji izvor finansiranja malih i srednjih preduzeca, niti mogu doprineti resavanju sirih ekonomskih problema nase privrede kao drugi investicioni fondovi, podsticuci perspektivna preduzeca fondovi 'smelog' kapitala mogu dati znacajan doprinos ...
Tópico(s): Regional Development and Management Studies
1999 - | Ekonomika preduzeca