Nikša Alfirević
Biographic Data
| ID | 3048705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikša Alfirević |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikša |
| FAMILY NAME | Alfirević |
| SIGNATURE | ALFIREVIĆ N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Split |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2130-982X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
When Climate Becomes Material: Generation Z's Social Media Addiction and Stakeholder Pressure on Firms
As climate change increasingly influences firms' strategic priorities, it is important to develop a deeper understanding of how emerging stakeholder groups form perceptions of environmental urgency. Generation Z is beginning to enter professional and consumer roles, making it an emerging stakeholder group. Its members are likely to play a growing role in shaping which sustainability issues firms perceive as salient. This study examines the microf…
SDG4 academic research productivity in the EU27: Economic factors and Covid-19 impacts
Purpose This paper aims to examine the factors influencing 2018–2022 research productivity related to Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) in the EU-27 considering the COVID-19 epidemic. Design/methodology/approach This paper applies the two-panel estimators to bibliometric data from Scopus and relevant indicators, focusing on the previously achieved scientific productivity levels, national GDP, government education expenditures and the COVID-19…
Signaling impact: Research, collaboration and reputation at European business schools
Business school reputation is an important but complex signal of academic and societal value. Although the reputation of business schools is still mainly assessed through bibliometric indicators, accreditations or rankings, these indicators cannot provide access to the broader impact of research on industry and society. This study fills this gap and examines how European business schools translate their research productivity and collaborative pra…
Helping the Planet for a More Sustainable Future: Spill-Overs among Young Adults’ Prosocial and Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behavior
This study explores how prosocial engagement may enable young people to become committed to environmental protection. Using serial mediation analysis, we examine the data from 530 undergraduate business students in Southeast Europe to depict the psychological pathways connecting prosocial attitudes and behaviors with a propensity for environmental engagement. Statistical analysis is performed using the PROCESS macro Model 6. Although limited by s…
Policy Landscape and Promotion of Life-Long Learning in Croatia in the EU Context (2018–2022)
In this paper, we review the EU and national (Croatian) education policy trends related to life-long learning and adult education in the last five years, focusing on the subsequent crises (COVID-19 and the security crisis caused by the war in Ukraine) and their influence on policy processes and documents. We also provide secondary data on trends in Croatian adult education, as well as present the results of empirical research performed on a sampl…
Toward the Development of the Higher Education Sustainability Measurement Scale/Izrada skale za mjerenje održivosti u visokom obrazovanju
In this study, authors analyze sustainability in higher education (HE), including its theoretical dimensions and linkages to the sustainable development goals (SDGs), in order to develop an initial version of the measurement scale, which could be used in research and practical applications in the HE sector. This is of special importance for public business schools wishing to obtain international accreditation, since the majority of international …
Environmental sustainability and corporate social responsibility of business schools: Is there evidence of transdisciplinary effects
This study analyses the relationship of environmental sustainability and the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of business schools by using the partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) empirical approach on a sample of 338 students from South East Europe. In support of the extant theory of responsible management education, emphasizing the transdisciplinary relationship between the Ethics, CSR, and Sustainability (ERS) dom…
Contribution of Service-Learning and Supporting Factors to the Environmental Sustainability Commitment of Higher Education Institutions
This study analyzes how service-learning contributes to the level of commitment to environmental sustainability in higher education institutions (HEIs), as perceived by their students. The empirical analysis has been conducted by using the PLS-SEM modelling, on a sample of 366 undergraduate students of business from Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina. The obtained results support the hypothesized influence of the service-learning development level …
What Drives the Perception of School Principals as Professional Managers in Small European Countries? The Case of Croatia/Što oblikuje percepciju školskih ravnatelja kao profesionalnih menadžera u mal…
In this study, the authors discuss the educational and social factors that contribute to the perception of school principals as an independent managerial profession. Empirical results are based on a household survey, nationally representative of the Republic of Croatia as a small European country involved in a comprehensive educational reform. The empirical results indicate that trust in individual social actors relevant for education and the pub…
Entrepreneurial Orientation of School Principals and Principalship in Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina: Psychological, Educational and Social Perspectives
The entrepreneurial involvement of educational institutions at the elementary and the secondary educational levels has not been systematically analyzed in the existing body of literature, although the decentralization and autonomy of educational institutions have been emphasized in educational policies since the 1980s.This study provides an empirical analysis of the entrepreneurial orientation, as related to the schools in Croatia and Bosnia & He…
School management innovation and principal support systems: Toward the agenda for Croatian school reform
In this paper, we discuss if the current educational management practices in Croatian schools are in line with the constructivist prescriptions and what is their relationship with the available principal support tools. Our research is based on previous empirical results, related to the perceived needs of school principals for training and support. Namely, in 2011, the surveyed school principals required additional competencies to be developed in …
Local civil-mindedness on the Internet as the basis for fundraising segmentation: Sociological, marketing determinants and the empirical analysis
The purpose of this article is to introduce a new practice, i.e. tools for online fundraising in nonprofit organisations, based on the assessment of Internet-induced local civic mindedness (INLCM) as a segmentation approach. We suggest that this novel approach to fundraising segmentation can be performed as the extension to the already existing analyses, utilising the demographic and psychographic profiles. Based on nationally representative surv…
Stakeholder-Oriented Principal Development in Croatian Elementary Schools
Contribution of Service-Learning and Supporting Factors to the Environmental Sustainability Commitment of Higher Education Institutions
This study analyzes how service-learning contributes to the level of commitment to environmental sustainability in higher education institutions (HEIs), as perceived by their students. The empirical analysis has been conducted by using the PLS-SEM modelling, on a sample of 366 undergraduate students of business from Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina. The obtained results support the hypothesized influence of the service-learning development level …
Stakeholder-Oriented Principal Development in Croatian Elementary Schools
Stakeholder-Oriented Principal Development in Croatian Elementary Schools
Local civil-mindedness on the Internet as the basis for fundraising segmentation: Sociological, marketing determinants and the empirical analysis
The purpose of this article is to introduce a new practice, i.e. tools for online fundraising in nonprofit organisations, based on the assessment of Internet-induced local civic mindedness (INLCM) as a segmentation approach. We suggest that this novel approach to fundraising segmentation can be performed as the extension to the already existing analyses, utilising the demographic and psychographic profiles. Based on nationally representative surv…
School management innovation and principal support systems: Toward the agenda for Croatian school reform
In this paper, we discuss if the current educational management practices in Croatian schools are in line with the constructivist prescriptions and what is their relationship with the available principal support tools. Our research is based on previous empirical results, related to the perceived needs of school principals for training and support. Namely, in 2011, the surveyed school principals required additional competencies to be developed in …
What Drives the Perception of School Principals as Professional Managers in Small European Countries? The Case of Croatia/Što oblikuje percepciju školskih ravnatelja kao profesionalnih menadžera u mal…
In this study, the authors discuss the educational and social factors that contribute to the perception of school principals as an independent managerial profession. Empirical results are based on a household survey, nationally representative of the Republic of Croatia as a small European country involved in a comprehensive educational reform. The empirical results indicate that trust in individual social actors relevant for education and the pub…
Entrepreneurial Orientation of School Principals and Principalship in Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina: Psychological, Educational and Social Perspectives
The entrepreneurial involvement of educational institutions at the elementary and the secondary educational levels has not been systematically analyzed in the existing body of literature, although the decentralization and autonomy of educational institutions have been emphasized in educational policies since the 1980s.This study provides an empirical analysis of the entrepreneurial orientation, as related to the schools in Croatia and Bosnia & He…
Environmental sustainability and corporate social responsibility of business schools: Is there evidence of transdisciplinary effects
This study analyses the relationship of environmental sustainability and the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of business schools by using the partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) empirical approach on a sample of 338 students from South East Europe. In support of the extant theory of responsible management education, emphasizing the transdisciplinary relationship between the Ethics, CSR, and Sustainability (ERS) dom…
Contribution of Service-Learning and Supporting Factors to the Environmental Sustainability Commitment of Higher Education Institutions
This study analyzes how service-learning contributes to the level of commitment to environmental sustainability in higher education institutions (HEIs), as perceived by their students. The empirical analysis has been conducted by using the PLS-SEM modelling, on a sample of 366 undergraduate students of business from Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina. The obtained results support the hypothesized influence of the service-learning development level …
Policy Landscape and Promotion of Life-Long Learning in Croatia in the EU Context (2018–2022)
In this paper, we review the EU and national (Croatian) education policy trends related to life-long learning and adult education in the last five years, focusing on the subsequent crises (COVID-19 and the security crisis caused by the war in Ukraine) and their influence on policy processes and documents. We also provide secondary data on trends in Croatian adult education, as well as present the results of empirical research performed on a sampl…
Toward the Development of the Higher Education Sustainability Measurement Scale/Izrada skale za mjerenje održivosti u visokom obrazovanju
In this study, authors analyze sustainability in higher education (HE), including its theoretical dimensions and linkages to the sustainable development goals (SDGs), in order to develop an initial version of the measurement scale, which could be used in research and practical applications in the HE sector. This is of special importance for public business schools wishing to obtain international accreditation, since the majority of international …
Signaling impact: Research, collaboration and reputation at European business schools
Business school reputation is an important but complex signal of academic and societal value. Although the reputation of business schools is still mainly assessed through bibliometric indicators, accreditations or rankings, these indicators cannot provide access to the broader impact of research on industry and society. This study fills this gap and examines how European business schools translate their research productivity and collaborative pra…
Helping the Planet for a More Sustainable Future: Spill-Overs among Young Adults’ Prosocial and Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behavior
This study explores how prosocial engagement may enable young people to become committed to environmental protection. Using serial mediation analysis, we examine the data from 530 undergraduate business students in Southeast Europe to depict the psychological pathways connecting prosocial attitudes and behaviors with a propensity for environmental engagement. Statistical analysis is performed using the PROCESS macro Model 6. Although limited by s…
When Climate Becomes Material: Generation Z's Social Media Addiction and Stakeholder Pressure on Firms
As climate change increasingly influences firms' strategic priorities, it is important to develop a deeper understanding of how emerging stakeholder groups form perceptions of environmental urgency. Generation Z is beginning to enter professional and consumer roles, making it an emerging stakeholder group. Its members are likely to play a growing role in shaping which sustainability issues firms perceive as salient. This study examines the microf…
SDG4 academic research productivity in the EU27: Economic factors and Covid-19 impacts
Purpose This paper aims to examine the factors influencing 2018–2022 research productivity related to Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) in the EU-27 considering the COVID-19 epidemic. Design/methodology/approach This paper applies the two-panel estimators to bibliometric data from Scopus and relevant indicators, focusing on the previously achieved scientific productivity levels, national GDP, government education expenditures and the COVID-19…
Political science (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Croatian (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Sustainability (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)