Factors of a Successfully Implemented Compulsory Settlement

  • Marjeta Zorin Bukovšek
  • Borut Bratina
  • Polona Tominc
Keywords: compulsory settlement, insolvency, financial restructuring plan, business restructuring, ownership restructuring

Abstract

In Slovenia, many companies try to avoid bankruptcy with the introduction of a compulsory settlement procedure, but only a handful of companies successfully complete the compulsory settlement in the sense of a final repayment of creditors in accordance with the adopted financial restructuring plan. The article identified the factors affecting the confirmation of a compulsory settlement as well as the factors affecting the final repayment of creditors and, thus, permanently eliminated the causes of insolvency. The factors were divided into internal and external, whereby the impact of factors on a successfully completed compulsory settlement was verified using quantitative and qualitative research methods.

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Author Biographies

Marjeta Zorin Bukovšek

PhD Student at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Slovenia
E-mail: marjeta.zorin@siol.net

Marjeta Zorin Bukovšek is a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Maribor. She graduated in 2009 with the help of her mentor, Professor Jani Bekő, Ph.D. In 2011, she successfully defended her master’s thesis with Professor Borut Bratina, Ph.D. In her master’s thesis, entitled Financial restructuring of a company with compulsory settlement, she familiarized herself with the field of commercial law, more specifically with insolvency proceedings. She works as an assistant director in the consulting company Zo-fing d.o.o., which mainly operates in the field of insolvency proceedings and crisis management.

Borut Bratina

Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Slovenia
E-mail: borut.bratina@um.si

Borut Bratina holds a Ph.D. in law and works as an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business (Maribor University) in the Department of Business and Company Law. In 1980 he graduated from the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana and the School of Economics and Commerce in Maribor. He earned his M.Sc. in law after completing post-graduate studies at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana in 1987 and his Ph.D. in law in 1997 from the Faculty of Law in Maribor.

Polona Tominc

Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Slovenia
E-mail: polona.tominc@um.si

Polona Tominc, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Quantitative Economic Analysis at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor. Her research is focused on statistical methods in economics, especially in the field of entrepreneurship and gender differences. She teaches statistics, quantitative research methods and methodology within the entrepreneurial research. She has participated in more than 30 scientific and professional conferences, is the author of various chapters in books and articles in scientific and professional journals, and has published in Slovenia and abroad. She is participating in the DIANA network analyzing female entrepreneurship and is a team member of GEM Slovenia and the Slovenian entrepreneurship observatory research team.

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Published
2017-07-27
How to Cite
Zorin Bukovšek M., Bratina B., & Tominc P. (2017). Factors of a Successfully Implemented Compulsory Settlement. Naše gospodarstvo/Our Economy, 63(1), 14-26. Retrieved from https://journals.um.si/index.php/oe/article/view/2213