Specific Organization of Business Flows in the Defence Sector

Abstract

This paper analyses specific organization of business flows in the field of the defence sector in primary production activities, sub supplier and supplier in return activities, in middleman and trade flows within the defence chain. The original survey results are presented for 64 Slovenian enterprises in the defence technological and industrial base activities. The Slovenian defence sector enterprises are still mainly focusing to the Slovenian markets. There are rare enterprises that are specialized into the foreign markets and on the utilising of opportunities from the economies of scale of the enlarged European Union markets and particularly on the utilising of the policies and measures that are provided by the common European defence technological and industrial base. On the other hand the import of the defence products into Slovenia from the enlarged European Union has increased substantially.