In the last decades, the word 'innovation' can be heard more and more on the entrepreneurial side. It has a crucial role in satisfying the customers, competition with other companies, and increasing the turnover of the enterprises. SME's economic performance is directly affecting the national budget. Still, there is not a precise method of assessing and improving the innovation process at neither firm nor national level. The paper aims to analyze the current innovative performance of Moldovan SMEs. The analysis will explore factors affecting enterprise innovation. It will determine how the existing innovation ecosystem affects the one in an enterprise, and what methods should be applied to improve innovation as well as the ecosystem. To gain insight, the study conducted an email survey of 150 companies, which were the object for research in the Republic of Moldova. The primary purpose of the study is to emphasize the importance of innovation issues related to increasing SME's competitiveness, in connection with presenting the theoretical aspects in the field, proving basic concepts and quantifying them in the study of innovation as well as various forms, types, and factors influencing innovative organizations. The objective of these enterprise questionnaires is to accumulate substantial and reliable information that is significant to responding to the fundamental research questions. Methodological tools of the research methods were the tools for statistical analysis based on using primary data from the questionnaire research. The reference period for statistical research was 2013 and 2017. The author collected the data between August and September 2018 based on questionnaires filled in on paper or sent through the email by the enterprises included in the research. The results of the study provide the following insights: product innovation is the primary innovation type among Moldovan SMEs; the country lacks financial resources for innovation support. Also, Moldova's weak innovation ecosystem and lack of highly qualified workers slow down the development of enterprises. At the end of the thesis, several recommendations for enterprise managers as well as high-level government organizations were provided. Keywords ecosystems, entrepreneurs, innovation, small and medium-sized enterprises, SMEs, Moldova.
Literature on aromatization in production environments is very limited. The literature rather describes the impact of aromachology on employees in administrative premises, but published research results on the influence of aromachology in production premises are not available. There are no scientifically based studies and research that analyze and provide at least partial evidence of the impact of fragrances on the productivity and economic performance of companies. For the study of the literature of the area of our scientific interest, we chose the globally most frequently used scientific information database Scopus. In deciding on the selection of keyword combinations and in the search, we relied primarily on our previous experience and the area of research, which is the aromatization of spaces in industrial production, and its impact on the performance of employees, respectively. We also consider the industrial applications of aromachology, and how an indoor environment is important for people’s health and comfort.
Purpose:The main attention of the submitted abstract is pay to the evaluation of the internationalization of the business activities from the point of view of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in selected company. We have been determinated the partial goals to achieve the main goal as well as the hypothesis. Design/methodology/approach: The primary and secondary data were used. In the first part of the article, we are focused on the analysis of the term corporate social responsibility and related concepts. We set the objectives and used methodology. Second, practical part is dealing with evaluation established hypothesis and questionnaire survey, which was filled in by the sample of the company´s employees. At the end we summarize the obtained data and findings and based on that, we can express our opinion and recommendations for the future development. The questionnaire was anonymous and was performed on a sample of 50 respondents. We used method of analysis, deduction and method of chi-square contingency test. It is a non-parametrical test by which we can verify the representativeness of the selected sample. The main part of this article includes the description of the questionnaire evaluation and statistical evaluation of our three set research hypotheses. In conclusion, we evaluate the overall results of our practical research and propose recommendations for the future. Findings: The results show that the CSR in relation to the internationalization of the business and assessment has affected the behaviour of company, stakeholders and employees. Research limitations: There are no limitations in our research. Practical implications: There are some recommendations for further practical application of results like the teambuilding activities, corporate events, cooperation with environmental organisations, continuous innovation and implementation of new environmentally friendly production methods and cooperation with environmental organisations for the knowledge transfer to the raise of an awareness about the good practises of the company. Social implications: Based on obtained results, it depends on the perception of the CSR from internal and external sides of company.
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