Establishing A Consortium - Way For Successful Implementation Of Investments Projects - An Example Of The Infrastructural Project "Slavonian Networks" –

Joining of entrepreneurs in the process of doing business in the modern economy is the (Latin) ‘Conditio sine qua non’. The economic practice has created a variety of business association forms that quality of cooperation can have multiple levels - from informal cooperation to segmental or total business integration. Joint approach to suppliers or customers, or work together to find solutions of legal, economic or technical matters most common triggers are thinking about merging businesses. Unfortunately, business joining in Croatia is not at the European level. This is a question of trust in other participants as well as trust in the institutions of society and state. Social cohesion is today the most important problem in Croatia uncompetitive and weak operating results of our businesses. Because our clusters - either in industry, agriculture and other sectors of entrepreneurship - have very few members and their competitiveness on the EU market, but also on the Croatian market, is very low than similar associations in other countries. In this paper is developed a model of the business association in the consortium on example of the infrastructure project "Slavonian networks" - the development of broadband networks to Internet in the area of five counties in the region of Slavonia and Baranja.