Alenka Slavec Gomezel
PhD

Alenka Slavec Gomezel, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the department of Entrepreneurship at the School of Economics and Business, Ljubljana University, Slovenia. Specializing in the psychology of entrepreneurs, she received her PhD in 2013 from the School of Economics and Business, Ljubljana University. Her research focuses on the psychology of entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial exit. She is also interested in SME financing, innovativeness and growth. Dr. Slavec Gomezel received two awards for her doctoral dissertation: the European Doctoral Programmes Association in Management and Business Administration (EDAMBA) 1st prize and the Trimo research award. Dr. Slavec Gomezel has published her work in several international journals and books and has participated at several research conferences on entrepreneurship and innovation. In 2009, Dr. Slavec Gomezel has been awarded with the Academy of Management 10 best papers. For her undergraduate thesis, Dr. Slavec Gomezel received research awards from Bank of Slovenia, SID Bank and Preseren Award from School of Economics and Business, Ljubljana University. Dr. Slavec Gomezel has been involved in several international and national research projects and was a visiting researcher at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona, USA, and at the Columbia Business School, New York, USA. She is a reviewer for Economics and Business Review. Dr. Slavec Gomezel teaches several business oriented courses and likes to develop business ideas with her students. She loves spending time with her family, friends, and cat, she likes to travel and meet new people. She practices trx, acroyoga, cycling, and rollerblading.

• SLAVEC GOMEZEL, Alenka, RANGUS, Kaja
  Open Innovation : it starts with the leader's openness
  Innovation : management, policy and practice, 2019, vol. 21, iss. 4, str. 533-551.

• SLAVEC GOMEZEL, Alenka
  A mixed-method design for developing a measure of entrepreneurial openness, (SAGE Research Methods Cases)
  London: SAGE Publications, 2018. 15 pages

• DRNOVŠEK, Mateja, FRANIĆ, Sanda, SLAVEC GOMEZEL, Alenka
  Exploring antecedents of business angels' intention to invest
  Zbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta u Rijeci : časopis za ekonomsku teoriju i praksu, 2018, vol. 36, no. 2, str. 701-734

• SLAVEC GOMEZEL, Alenka, RANGUS, Kaja
  An exploration of an entrepreneur’s open innovation mindset in an emerging country
  Management Decisions, 2018, vol. 59, iss. 9, str. 1869-1882

• SLAVEC Alenka, DRNOVŠEK Mateja, HISRICH Robert D.
  Entrepreneurial openness: Concept development and measure validation
  European Management Journal, 2017, Vol. 35, No. 2, p. 211-223

• SLAVEC GOMEZEL, Alenka
  Firm financing and growth: The influence of owner’s and firm’s characteristics
  Dynamic Relationships Management Journal, 2017, Vol 6, No. 2, p. 3-16

• RANGUS Kaja, SLAVEC Alenka
  The interplay of decentralization, employee involvement and absorptive capacity on firms' innovation and business performance
  Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2017, Vol. 120, p. 195-203

• ZUPAN, Blaž, STRITAR, Rok, SLAVEC GOMEZEL, Alenka
  Unlocking latent creativity with rapid prototyping
  Traditiones, 2017, Vol 46, No, 1-2

• SLAVEC, Alenka
  Bank financing and trade credit use of Slovenia small firms: an empirical examination
  Transformations in business & economics, 2014, vol. 13, no. 2 (32), str. 91-101

• DRNOVŠEK, Mateja, SLAVEC, Alenka, CARDON, Melissa S.
  Cultural context, passion and self-efficacy: do entrepreneurs operate on different 'planets'?
  Handbook of entrepreneurial cognition, 2014, str. 227-253

• SLAVEC, Alenka, PRODAN, Igor
  The Slovenian automotive cluster
  Cluster development in the Czech Republic and Slovenia, 2014, str. 55-84

• SLAVEC, Alenka
  1. nagrada na 2014 EDAMBA (European Doctoral Association of Management and Business Administration) tekmovanju doktorskih disertacij
  EDAMBA 2014 Awards

• SLAVEC, Alenka, DRNOVŠEK, Mateja
  A perspective on scale development in entrepreneurship research
  Economic and Business Review, 2012, vol. 14, no. 1, p. 39-62

• ADLEŠIČ, Renata Valentina, SLAVEC, Alenka
  Social capital and business incubators performance : testing the structural model
  Economic and Business Review, 2012, vol. 14, no. 3, p. 201-222

• SLAVEC, Alenka, PRODAN, Igor
  The influence of entrepreneur's characteristics on small manufacturing firm debt financing
  Journal of East European Management Studies, 2012, vol. 17, iss. 1, p. 104-130