Abstract—Vision and mission are often considered as an
essential part of strategic management. There is probably not a
strategic management book that does not mention or explain
the importance of these two elements. In history we can find
beautiful examples of great visions of e.g. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs
or Henry Ford that stay behind companies’ success. Based on
these examples we often try to analyze how successful vision and
mission statements should be created and defined. But there are
still some people that remain skeptical on this subject. They see
these statements only as formal documents or just another
“marketing tool,” not a strategic one. There is also often
confusion also with distinguishing vision and mission. The goal
of this paper is to investigate the role, the attitude and
significance of vision and mission statements for enterprises in
current environment. It will discuss the experiences and
approaches to vision and mission development in the Slovak
Republic based on research from 2012. The research was based
on gathering of information by questionnaires and structured
interviews in companies operating in Slovak Republic from
various sectors and on quantitative analysis.
Index Terms—Mission, mission statement, vision, vision
statement, enterprises in Slovak Republic.
Z. Papulova is with the University in Bratislava, Faculty of Management
(e-mail: zuzana.papulova@fm.uniba.sk).
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Cite:Z. Papulova, "The Significance of Vision and Mission Development
for Enterprises in Slovak Republic," Journal of Economics, Business and Management vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 12-16, 2014.