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Sustainable leadership within Slovene and Croatian diaspora

Emigrant organizations usually play an important role for mutual assistance of compatriots helping each other in integrating into new society. With time the role of diaspora organizations typically transforms into preserving the culture, language and identity of country of origin. With this also the management of such organization changes. Upon the aging of emigrants, inclusion of their descendants, changes in identity, also the focus and activities in such organizations most often modificates. Our paper compares the state of management within Slovene and Croatian diaspora based on the sample of case studies that responded to our survey distributed in 2020 and 2021. On one hand we compare situation in different countries, but at the same time we also compare situations in organizations of both nations. Questions such as how many members do they have, what is their average age, do they have their own facilities, what kind of events and how often do they organize, what is their relation towards digitalization and what are the prospects for the future, are raised. We present key general findings, exhibit individual specifics of societies and provide recommendations for improvement.

Slovenian diaspora , Croatian diaspora emigrant organizations, digitalization

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