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Mini–companies as an essential part
of a lifelong learning program for high school
students
Aleksandra Stevanović, Snježana Djurdjević, Bojana Sokolović
E 1. Background and purpose of the research
ducation process today is an integral part of the era of turbulent ex-
changes, 4.0 industry, digitalization, and soft management. It requires an
expanded definition of learning practicies where the significance of the re-
lationship between schools and organizations becomes more prominent.
In the literature, there is an attitude that business schools should respond
with `continuous attention` to theory/practice linkages (Porter, McKibbin,
1988). Systematic attention needs to be paid to the various types of compa-
ny-based field experiences, their different learning objectives and expecta-
tions, the roles of all stakeholders in the learning process (Limerick, Moore,
1991). Authors pointed out on two clearly separated learning arenas: uni-
versity and company. The university provides cognitive, intellectual frame-
work; company or enterprise teaches skills in applying these to practice
(ibid.). Everything aforementioned leads us to define `student enterprises`
which are presented by: extracurricular program of Junior Achievement
Worldwide and Junior Achievement Europe.
In a junior achievements program, groups of high school students are
organized into companies that `sell` stock to raise capital, appoint employ-
ees, buy materials, manufacture and market a product, pay dividends to
stockholders, and liquidate their company in the course of fifteen weeks. To
manage their operations, students comprising each company make their
own decisions regarding the appropriate amounts required for their own
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Mini–companies as an essential part
of a lifelong learning program for high school
students
Aleksandra Stevanović, Snježana Djurdjević, Bojana Sokolović
E 1. Background and purpose of the research
ducation process today is an integral part of the era of turbulent ex-
changes, 4.0 industry, digitalization, and soft management. It requires an
expanded definition of learning practicies where the significance of the re-
lationship between schools and organizations becomes more prominent.
In the literature, there is an attitude that business schools should respond
with `continuous attention` to theory/practice linkages (Porter, McKibbin,
1988). Systematic attention needs to be paid to the various types of compa-
ny-based field experiences, their different learning objectives and expecta-
tions, the roles of all stakeholders in the learning process (Limerick, Moore,
1991). Authors pointed out on two clearly separated learning arenas: uni-
versity and company. The university provides cognitive, intellectual frame-
work; company or enterprise teaches skills in applying these to practice
(ibid.). Everything aforementioned leads us to define `student enterprises`
which are presented by: extracurricular program of Junior Achievement
Worldwide and Junior Achievement Europe.
In a junior achievements program, groups of high school students are
organized into companies that `sell` stock to raise capital, appoint employ-
ees, buy materials, manufacture and market a product, pay dividends to
stockholders, and liquidate their company in the course of fifteen weeks. To
manage their operations, students comprising each company make their
own decisions regarding the appropriate amounts required for their own
295
