THE RESULTS OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON FAMILY BUSINESS IN CROATIA

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.