Abstract Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has a relatively low level of entrepreneurial activity as evidenced by GEM reports but also has an economic structure in which SMEs account for about 99% of the total number of enterprises. The goal of this paper was to examine the level of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and influence of EO on business performances of SMEs in the Republic of Srpska (RS), one of the two BiH entities, in which the empirical research was done. We have used adapted Covin & Slevin (1989) version of the questionnaire. We found out that only 12.28% of sampled SMEs have all three dimensions of EO pronounced. The least pronounced dimension is risk-taking and the most pronounced dimension is proactiveness. Our research did not confirm the impact of EO on selected indicators of business performances.

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创业取向的建立对转型国家中小型企业绩效的影响：来自波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的经验证据

摘要创业板报告证明，波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那（BiH）的企业家活动水平相对较低，但其经济结构中，中小企业约占企业总数的99％。本文的目的是研究企业家取向（EO）的水平以及EO对波黑两个实体之一的斯普斯卡共和国（RS）中小型企业的业务绩效的影响，并进行了实证研究。我们使用了Covin＆Slevin（1989）版本的问卷。我们发现，只有12.28％的中小型企业具有EO的所有三个维度。最小的维度是冒险精神，最显着的维度是主动性。我们的研究没有证实EO对选定的业务绩效指标的影响。