Original scientific paper

INFLUENCE OF VALUES, CULTURE, ETHICS AND NORMS ON ECONOMIC RESULTS: CASE OF SLOVENIA

Vojko POTOČAN orcid.org/0000-0001-6578-668X ; Faculty of Economics and Business, Maribor
Matjaž MULEJ ; Faculty of Economics and Business, Maribor
Vesna ČANČER ; Faculty of Economics and Business, Maribor

Abstract

In this text the authors try to research how
values/culture/ethics/norms (VCEN) influence economic
results in the perception of a representative sample of
Slovenian intellectuals. A field research, including a
questionnaire was conducted, backed by a development
economics-based view of the so-called transitional countries
of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC), especially
Slovenia. The text discusses two theses: (1) not only the
economic reality and socioeconomic institutions, but also the
VCEN of Slovenians are going through a transition process.
Individual values of VCEN can be well represented in a
survey; (2) the transition process of VCEN is slower than the
one of socioeconomic institutions; this discrepancy inhibits
the potential rate of socioeconomic development of CEEC,
including Slovenia. More attention must be given to the
acceleration of innovation of VCEN by influences reaching
beyond the usual socioeconomic institutions and market in
order to enhance the development of transitional countries.

Keywords

VCEN; innovation; transition; two-generation cycles

Hrčak ID:

25466

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/25466

Publication date:

7.7.2008.

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