Robert Hanak

• Associate Professor
• Researcher at Slovak Academy of Sciences

PURPOSE: In both theory and practice, the entrepreneur’s prior experience is considered to be one of the most important human capital factors affecting venture performance. Nonetheless, the research on the effect of experience on venture performance has produced inconclusive findings. The literature explaining this inconclusiveness is sparse, but s...

University educated information and communication technology (ICT) professionals and their availability in the market are the cornerstone of the digital economy and in the long run are also crucial for the economics of decoupling. In our research paper we investigated if Croatian, Slovakian and European young people (19, 22 and 24 years old coho...

Specific European countries, which are very similar in terms of culture and history, significantly differ in the mean percentage of women studying informatics at university. We investigated the relationship between specific 21 macroeconomic and cultural indicators and the percentage of women studying informatics at university in 35 European countri...

Women still represent a small percentage of the workforce, especially in informatics positions, and companies would like more women to choose to work in their fields. The low representation of women in information–communication technologies (ICT) reduces national competitiveness of France and Slovakia. The aim of the scientific article is to invest...

Digital transformation is a major organisational challenge for manufacturing firms due to the extremely low success rate of such transformations to date. Capability Maturity theory suggests that firms need to develop digital transformation capability incrementally by focusing on a ‘vital few’ improvement priorities for advancing progress. The pract...

A start-up is an attractive business phenomenon that raises great expectations among founders and investors. The fulfillment of expectations is conditioned by the growth of business performance. The factors that influence the performance and growth of a start-up are mostly hypothetical, they are logically consistent, but there is a lack of quantita...

In this paper, we present scientific studies that include measurement tools that have been developed to analyse and measure gender stereotypes related to women's intention to study/not study or work/not work in ICT and STEM. We explore the issue through relevant literature. Through Google Scholar and licensed databases of the Central Library of the...

In this paper, we present the results of research on the Slovak company named pelicantravel.com s.r.o. We analyzed individual factors concerning the stabilization of employees in the company. We used important data from the questionnaire for the analyses. Specifically, we deal with 2 groups- according to the number of years of employment in the exa...

Previous research has pointed out that Industry 4.0 will lead to more sustainable production; however, it may have profound effects on European competitiveness. Today, firms in the CEE countries face a limited scope for continued economic expansion, and hence there is a growing pressure on them to move upward in the global value chain by investing...

Angel investment into new venture is a very risky process, which with high probability will end as failure, or in better case, not meeting the expectations of the investor. Therefore the process of selecting best business proposal for investment is crucial and the purpose for writing this paper is to investigate and subsequently to improve investor...

There are many business angels’ and venture capitalists’ decision criteria they apply when they are assessing business proposals of entrepreneurs asking for investment. Entrepreneur’s experience and experience of his/her team are considered as the most important of all criteria related to the entrepreneur. Using theoretical literature analysis we i...

The attraction effect occurs when a third option is added to two seemingly equivalent options but it competes against only one of the original options. This increases the likelihood of the dominating option being chosen. In attraction effect studies, it is assumed that both attributes of the options are of equal importance to the decision maker. We...

Previous business experience is considered very valuable when building a new company. In spite of the generally expected positive benefit, the scientific results obtained from meta-analyzes clearly show us that the benefit of the entrepreneur's experience to measurable results is much smaller than we would expect. In the present review article, we...

Firstly, we tested canvas business model methodology for evaluation of business proposals submitted to business angels group and its relation to gatekeeper decision to accept/reject proposals in the first pre-screen step. The experience of the entrepreneur, defined as a number of launched ventures-start-up experience and as all his/her years spent...

In our meta-analysis we investigated effect of experience on entrepreneurial performance. Performance were measured by three summarizing categories: size, profitability and growth. We report findings from 70 independent studies (N = 48425). We found small but significant relationship r = 0,065, CI [0,033; 0,097]. These findings are in line with oth...

Developing successful decision support tool for investors which will evaluate highly innovative entrepreneurs' start-ups is very complicated task. To create new one which will outperform existing tools requires to combine: a) today best practises b) latest knowledge and findings from cognitive science, decision making theory, and entrepreneurship a...

Business model and business strategy fundamentally characterize and predetermine the essence of a company and its action. Research has already brought a fairly extensive knowledge of the model and strategy too. There is also emerging evidence that describes the relationship between model and strategy, but it is not verified by empirical research. T...

Táto učebnica je zameraná na analýzu pomocou štatistického softvéru PSPP. Tento softvér je bezplatný opensource softvér, ktorý je dostupný zdarma. Je pravidelne updatovaný a zlepšovaný a jeho funkcionalita rastie. Pre bežného používateľa ako aj pre vysokoškolského študenta, či doktoranda v sociálnych vedách je dostačujúci.

Most of new businesses fail to succeed and one of the main reasons is inferior knowledge about business characteristics (like profitability) and their predictive validity when analyzing and setting initial business plan. Four groups (students without experience, students with administrative experience, managers with less than 12 years of experience...

There are several available measures that can help us to distinguish between two general types of processing, usually known as intuitive and deliberative. In the current study we examined two of them, Rationality-Experiantility Inventory and Preference for Intuition/Deliberation Scale in Slovak sample of 860 working adults and students (Study 1). I...

Intuition is usually seen as fast, automatic, high processing capacity, yet only few studies focused directly on the connection with the amount of information search. In this paper we present two studies examining two different domains (financial and recruiting) and employing different manipulations (time stress and instruction). The main aim of bo...

What is rationality and what comprises rational behaviour of humans is in the centre of heated debate in judgement and decision making literature. Recently, Stanovich proposed a new tripartite model of human mind with an emphasis on “reflective mind” – our ability to reflect our goals and motives, which enables us to decide, when to act upon “intui...

A new tri-partite model of rational thinking (Stanovich, 2011) allows for assessing various aspects of rational decision making. Because of assumed multi-faceted nature of rationality, it is necessary to establish which measuring paradigms are best suited to assess it. 531 participants (31% men,), with mean age of 27.61 (SD=7.8) took part in the pr...

V tejto monografii sme si stanovili za cieľ preskúmať rôzne používané metódy, postupy a spôsoby výberu a porovnávania expertov a odporučiť takú metódu výberu expertov (alebo ich kombináciu), ktorá by priniesla najlepšie rozlišovacie možnosti pri vysokej validite a nízkych nákladoch na jej administráciu. Tým vytvoríme nový, lepší a komplexný model v...

Niektoré úlohy využívané pri výskume racionality možno formulovať rôznymi relatívne ekvivalentnými spôsobmi a získať pri tom odlišné výsledky. Takto získané odlišnosti poukazujú na všeobecné alebo špecifické zákonitosti fungovania mysle, ktoré môžu prispievať k vzniku určitých zaujatostí. Vo výskume bola použitá Wasonova selekčná úloha v štyroch ve...

Accurate perception of medical probabilities communicated to patients is a cornerstone of informed decision making. People, however, are prone to biases in probability perception. Recently, Pighin and others extended the list of such biases with evidence that "1-in-X" ratios (e.g., "1 in 12") led to greater perceived probability and worry about hea...

Previous research focusing on decision making has reported that most novices use an extensive set of cues in a compensatory way to make their decisions (i.e., compensatory strategies), whereas most experts use a limited set of relevant cues in a non-compensatory way (i.e., non-compensatory strategies). We tested the generalizability of these conclu...

Research concerning mindreading has dealt extensively with its (in)dependence on executive functions. However, surprisingly few studies focused on direct relationship of mindreading with intelligence, although it has been proposed that high level mindreading in older children and adults is dependent on general cognitive skills. In the study reporte...