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2. Reducing Food Waste and Boosting Profits through Inventory Management: The Case of Small Slovenian BakeriesŠpela Lipnik, Žiga Čepar, 2025, original scientific article Abstract:
This article explores the role of inventory management in reducing food waste and improving economic performance in selected Slovenian bakeries, contributing to a more efficient, environmentally responsible and sustainable economy. Using semi-structured interviews with key bakery personnel and an in-depth analysis of business documentation, our study applies the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) model and Newsvendor model to test the following two hypotheses: (H1) improving inventory management at Bakery 1 can reduce total annual procurement costs by more than 15% without causing spoilage or raw material waste, and (H2) minimizingfood waste at Bakery 2 may not necessarily align with maximizing profit. The findings confirm that applying these models can enhance production and procurement planning, demonstrating that while cost reductions and waste minimization are achievable, they may not always be fully aligned. The study underscores the importance of strategic inventory management in balancing financial and environmental objectives in small bakeries.
Keywords: EOQ and Newsvendor inventory management models, inventory optimization, food waste minimization, sustainable economy
Published in RUP: 18.12.2025; Views: 161; Downloads: 0
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3. Economy of Death: The Grey Zone, CannibalWar Machine and Capitalist Accumulation in Latin AmericaAntonio Fuentes Díaz, Panagiotis Doulos, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: This article argues, based on the analysis of extortion and
criminal governance in México, that criminal activities should be understood as a key component of contemporary capital accumulation. This criminal accumulation of capital requires the suspension of restrictions on illegal activities, generating zones of legal-illegal indistinction that allow profitability, shared sovereignties and cannibal war
machines that, through violence, generate the extraction of goods, income and bodies in line with the neoliberal enterprise. This means that criminal capital carries out, in an extreme and nihilistic way, the logic
of value.
Keywords: extortion, criminal governance, criminal capitalism, war
machine, economy of death, neoliberalism, Latin America
Published in RUP: 17.12.2025; Views: 153; Downloads: 0
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4. Socialist entrepreneurship and integrated peasant economy : failed collectivization in Yugoslavia (1949–1953)Lev Centrih, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: This article explores the specific features of collectivization in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on Slovenia as one of its constituent republics. Through a bottom-up approach, it examines selected cases from the countryside surrounding the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, between 1949 and 1953. Unlike the Soviet and broader Eastern European cases, the Slovene/Yugoslav regime stemmed from both a socialist revolution and the National Liberation War. Alongside coercion, it used pragmatic strategies to win over the peasantry—allowing wealthier peasants to join labour cooperatives and promoting ‘entrepreneurship’, a value rooted in capital- ism, as a socialist principle. While aiming to preserve the industriousness of petty commodity production, the authorities sought to achieve this within a new environment: no longer in private enterprises, but in state or collective (cooperative) ones, protected from the destructive consequences of capitalism. Drawing on case studies, the article demonstrates that collectivization failed: Support from revolutionary activists proved insufficient, peasants rejected the proposed entrepreneurial model, and they con- tinued to pursue individualistic family farming. It explains the persistence of traditional agriculture through the concept of the integrated peasant economy, in dialogue with theories of pluriactivity and petty commodity production.
Keywords: collectivization, entrepreneurship, integrated peasant economy, peasant cooperatives, petty commodity production, Slovenia
Published in RUP: 30.09.2025; Views: 430; Downloads: 12
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5. Osor, insularity and its surroundings : the creation of a regional identity caught between the global economy and local subsistenceMartina Blečić Kavur, Boris Kavur, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: When observed from a broader perspective, in the 1st millennium BC, the regions of the Adriatic underwent structuring processes that affected many domains. On a political level, this was marked by the emergence of municipal and even state-like institutions; on a social level, it involved both the affirmation of elites and the development of specialized classes of craftspeople and traders. Lastly, in terms of settlements, it entailed the more intensive hierarchization of agglomerations in the region and the creation of special forms of public infrastructure within settlements. In this paper, we discuss the settlement of Osor, which transformed during this period from a prehistoric settlement into a major proto-urban center of the northern Adriatic. Its location within the landscape and long-distance trade networks, reinforcing its insularity, shaped an economy and identity that was unique due to its cosmopolitan character and distinctive form – even in comparison to geographically close centers such as the Histrian Nesactium.
Keywords: Osor, Iron Age, insularity, economy, identity
Published in RUP: 26.09.2025; Views: 495; Downloads: 13
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