Open research questions in Economic and Business Development Strategies
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The study identifies several facilitating factors, such as policy-regulatory support, social pressure, ethical considerations, and impeding factors, such as lack of resources, limited knowledge, and perceived low relevance of CSR for business, as well as the excessively bureaucratic approach in the public sector.
Corporate Social Responsibility – Assessment of Facilitating and Impeding Factors for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Latvia · 2023 · DOIThe main objective of this article is to evaluate the current state of knowledge on business process management (BPM) maturity in Polish and foreign subject literature, and to outline directions for further research on process maturity, with a special focus on new requirements and opportunities arising from Industry 4.
Navigating digital transformation: perspectives on evaluating business process management maturity · 2023 · DOIThe aim of this article is to investigate the factors shaping the organisational culture of the growing number of shared service centres (SSC) of transnational corporations in Poland, an area that has not yet been thoroughly explored.
External and global, or internal and local? Which main factors shape the organisational culture of shared service centres of transnational corporations in Poland? · 2022 · DOIMotivation: Previous studies that examined the applicability of the MKTOR scale report inconsistent results (Matsuno, Mentzer, & Rentz 2005; Ward, Girardi, & Lewandowska, 2006; Rojas-Mendez, & Rod, 2013) and the studies that use MKTOR scale in export performance research are scarce.
The existence of these correlations (despite their very low level) in the light of a generally formulated research problem may constitute a premise for conducting further studies on the issue of cultural conditionings of communicating about this problem as well as the way it is practised in Polish and Czech enterprises.
Communication about A Business Model within An Organisation in the Opinion of Czechs and Polish · 2016 · DOIAlso, it reveals that functional motivation to adopt the standards produces negative influence to operational and business performance of organizations in Lithuania, indicating of under researched institutional factors preventing successful internalizations of quality management practices constituting the standards.
In this regard, the entrepreneurial tendencies of young people in the earthquake-affected region should be studied, and the barriers they face should be identified, with solutions proposed to overcome these challenges.
The Economic Impacts of the February 6, 2023, Kahramanmaraş-Centered Earthquakes on Entrepreneurs in Türkiye · 2026 · DOIYet, scientific research con-ducted in the area of entrepreneurship incubation gives contradictory results - some assess their activity positively, others negatively.
Enterprise innovation in technology incubators and university business incubators in the context of Polish industry · 2020 · DOIFor those SMEs whose capital base is insufficient, they can have catastrophic consequences in the case of realized activities, and they can lead to financial losses and subsequently to possible bankruptcy.
THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR RISK MANAGEMENT IN THE SLOVAK SMEs FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE HUMAN RESOURCES IN THE PERIOD OF QUALITATIVE ECONOMIC CHANGES · 2020 · DOIIt should be noted that the research to date in this area is not often undertaken both on scientific grounds and in the field of broadly understood economic consulting for the benefit of local government units, which results mainly from the lack of data.
It confirms that this particular form of business organisation is neither limited to the less developed countries, nor is simply a second best functional substitute of the multi-divisional form diffused in the liberal market economies.
Limits of Research - There are two main limitations of this study- firstly the selection of economic publications in the field, considered representative of the media in Romania, and secondly the time constraints.
MEDIUL ANTREPRENORIAL EUROPEAN REFLECTAT ÎN MASS-MEDIA DIN ROMÂNIA, O PERSPECTIVĂ ANALITICĂ · 2012It seems that the basic problem is not lack of potential sources of funding for R&D activities but, above all, an insufficient knowledge of financial opportunities and the entrepreneurs’ belief that these funds are beyond their reach.
In spite of its importance, the influence of concentration on the results of commercial activities of particular enterprises and industries has not been thoroughly investigated.
Many problems still remain to be solved; however, there is a need to study the population of firms and to analyse processes occurring in these populations.
Business Demography - the Analysis of Firm Population in the Zachodniopomorskie Voivodship as Compared to the Polish and European Market · 2007 · DOIAlthough this topic has been widely and intensively studied by scholars from other areas such as industrial organization economics, financial economics, organization theory, and marketing, a synthesis of these diverse streams of research is lacking.
Most-cited papers in Economic and Business Development Strategies
- Research on corporate diversification: A synthesis · Strategic Management Journal · 1989 · 472 citations
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- Enterprise innovation in technology incubators and university business incubators in the context of Polish industry · Oeconomia Copernicana · 2020 · 33 citations
- TECHNICAL, INFORMATION AND INNOVATION RISKS OF INDUSTRY 4.0 IN SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES – CASE OF SLOVAKIA AND POLAND · Journal of Business Economics and Management · 2020 · 31 citations
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- MODEL FOR OPPORTUNITIES ASSESSMENT TO INCREASE THE ENTERPRISE INNOVATION ACTIVITY · Verslas teorija ir praktika · 2021 · 26 citations
- SMEs sustainability: The role of human resource management, corporate social responsibility and financial management · Oeconomia Copernicana · 2024 · 26 citations
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