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As to contribute to the literature on entrepreneurial intention, a survey was conducted on a sample of Croatian students and their entrepreneurial intentions, by using Ajzen's (1991) theory of planned behaviour. This theory determines intention through attitudes, behavioural control (self-efficacy), and social norms. Additional four determinants were investigated: role models, education, needs for achievement, and propensity towards risk. We propose that individuals exposed to role models and entrepreneurial education, as well as those who have a higher level of need for achievement and propensity towards risk, are more likely to set up a venture. The survey was conducted at the Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism, University of Split, Croatia and the obtained data were analysed by using the structural equation modelling technique. A total of 160 survey responses from students were obtained. It was found that attitudes and propensity towards risk positively affect entrepreneurial intention. Surprisingly, self-efficacy and social norms, in addition to role models, education, and the need for achievement, failed to produce a significant effect on entrepreneurial intention.

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Operating in international markets always remains a master challenge facing companies with global aspirations. In hospitality industry, characterized by intense cultural pluralism, new tools enabling top management to operate (more) successfully will be shown to have a crucial importance for the future. Although the concept of Cultural Intelligence has been discussed continually over the last decade, this paper will firstly refer to the layout of the CQ construct in order to explain its application possibility in the hotel industry. This application, as viewed by authors, can be described as a filtering mechanism for the top management in the strategy formulation domain including three main phases: information processing, risk diminution and cultural interaction. Set in this manner, this theory represents a new role, application area and practical methodology for the concept of Cultural Intelligence, valuable to strategy makers in the international hospitality industry.

Today's standard Croatian shipyards are faced with major problems of the globalized shipbuilding market, whose main feature is an exceptional competition with great cost pressures. Therefore, this paper aims to explore a new model based on the application of the process approach in modern shipyards, as one of the possible answers to these market demands. Business processes represent a key role in forming the optimal organization of modern enterprises. In this paper we propose application of the process approach in the shipbuilding industry of Croatia, as the first step to achieve profitability, to define the forms of ownership and to achieve rationalization of operations, in order for shipbuilding to become the major foundation for the development of Croatian economy.