ANALYSIS OF IMPACT OF ENTREPRENEURS’ CHARACTERISTICS TO THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES IN CROATIAN COMPANIES

The paper represents a research model of impact to the number of employees in companies owned by Croatian entrepreneurs.The research was carried out on a sample of 200 companies in Croatia. Analyzed were impacts of competitiveness, productive technology and services at market, experiences and education of entrepreneurs, of new and bought company to implementation of strategy of companies, and impacts of quantitative methods of strategy implementation of companies, hierarchy structure, company revenue, experience, education and sex of entrepreneurs to the number of employees in companies of Croatian entrepreneurs. The model of structural equations is used for analysis of mentioned impacts.