"Central "Planning is really Holistic Planning

Charles Jannuzi jannuzi at edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp
Sun Jan 20 02:11:51 PST 2002



>Are bureaucrats workers?


>Ian

In Slovenia, they are turning out to be the new entrepreneurs. Now that might just be good old crony capitalism at work, or it might be they got management expertise (a diffuse set of skills) as bureaucrats in the old Slovenia. Admittedly, planning an economy for a population of less than 2 million is quite a bit different than 200 million.

It's amazing how quickly they all turned into American Chamber of Commerce Republicans:

http://www.gea-college.si/gradiva/final-99ang.pdf


>>5.1. DYNAMIC ENTREPRENEURS
The dynamic enterprises in Slovenia are led by expert managing employees with over ten years of work experiences, from 35 to 50 years old. The majority of them got experiences in the government sector, only few in the private entrepreneurship. Most of them nowadays make other products or services than in previous jobs. The dynamic entrepreneurs have mostly secondary school education of technical or commercial and business operation branch, among the most successful there are also a bit more qualified and trained entrepreneurs. They lack the most knowledge from the following fields: general management, marketing, finances, and what is interesting, they are convinced that they also have not enough technical and technological experiences. Most dynamic entrepreneurs established the enterprise together with the family members, only one third together with other investors. They decided for this step because they had not been satisfied with work in their previous job, but most often because they wanted that a “certain idea” became true. Among the motives for their work, the first place is taken by a wish to succeed, the second however by independence. The majority of the enterprises having been studied and regarded as fast growing enterprises were established in the years 1990, 1991 and 1992. The entrepreneurs estimate that they are successful mostly because of their organisation capabilities and experiences. Among the obstacles for even faster growth, they range difficulties with liquidity due to default payments and too small market opportunities or else small local market. Most of them would establish the same enterprise again, only a smaller part would re-establish a different enterprise. The dynamic entrepreneurs like to join with people and enjoy in company, two thirds of them also take an active part in formal organisations, while one third of entrepreneurs do not have such a wish. The dynamic entrepreneurs are rather thrifty and in most cases they settle their salaries being lower than managers’ salaries in bigger enterprises or else in companies where managers are not co-owners of the companies or they are so to a certain extent only. Thus they mostly do not receive monthly more than 300,000 SIT and only 27 the most dynamic entrepreneurs pay to themselves monthly salaries of more than 400,000 SIT.<<

Charles Jannuzi



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