THE RESULTS OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON FAMILY BUSINESS IN CROATIA

U radu su predočeni nalazi četverogodišnjega istraživanja o nekim aspektima hrvatskoga obiteljskoga poduzetništva, kao što su: spolna struktura nositelja projekata obiteljskog poduzetništva, krediti i zaposlenici prema spolnoj strukturi nositelja projekata, formalno obrazovanje nositelja projekata, pravni oblici projekata obiteljskog poduzetništva, oblici jamstava traženih kredita i područja djelatnosti projekata obiteljskog poduzetništva. Istraživanje je provedeno na cjelokupnoj populaciji reflektanata na poticajne kredite Hrvatske banke za obnovu i razvitak iz Programa kreditiranja za poticanje zasnivanja maloga poduzetništva. O ciljnoj populaciji i uzorkovanju potrebno je napomenuti da je u četiri godine obuke bilo ponuđeno ukupno 1.699 projekata malog poduzetništva iz navedenoga Programa. Projekti obiteljskog poduzetništva sudjelovali su u tome sa 39,67% (674 projekta), u tome su žene (nositeljice projekata) ponudile ukupno 483 projekta, od kojih je bilo 195 (ili 40,37%) projekata obiteljskog poduzetništva, a muškarci su (nositelji projekata) ponudili ukupno 1.216 projekata, od kojih je bilo 479 (ili 39,39%) projekata obiteljskog poduzetništva.The work contains the fi ndings after four year long research in some aspects of Croatian family business i.e. the family business principal`s sex structure, employees according to the principal`s sex structure, loans, the principal`s formal education, family business legal forms, forms of collateral for loans applied for, and the range of activities covered by family business projects.The research has been made on the whole population of prospective takers of promotive loans offered by the Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development from their Program of fi nancing the promotion of small business establishment. As regards the target population and sampling, it is important to note that during the four years of education a total of 1,699 small business projects were offered from the mentioned Program. 39.67% of it were family business projects (674 projects); women as project principals offered a total of 483 projects, 195 (40.37 %) of which were family business projects, whereas men as project principals offered a total of 1,216 projects, 479 (39.39 %) of which were family business projects