In the background of changing situation on local and global markets of delivery and sales companies more often use the Internet tools, letting realization of electronic transactions with partners in supply chain. Changes in management of supply chain happen with development of clients' needs and technological possibilities of cooperating partners. Globalization of economic companies' cooperation (e.g. in delivery, production and distribution processes), technological growth and innovative manners of economic activity, as well as stronger competition and shorter products life cycles on markets have caused pressure on changes of dimensions of supply chains' acts-shorter time of order's realization, global scope of activity, bigger elasticity and durability. One of fundamental tool of supporting business processes became electronic data interchange through the Internet. It has caused epochmaking change for clients' values-independent access to information about products' flow and localization of supply chain's partners.
Abstract:The paper presents selected results of the survey on academic entrepreneurship which was carried out within the Visegrad Fund Project in four universities in member states between October 2016 and February 2017. The results reveal the level of entrepreneurship's awareness among university employees and students as well as their attitudes towards entrepreneurial activities. The paper also examines the principle incentives and barriers of setting up the business in Visegrad Group (V4) countries. It also discusses the perception of business attractiveness of Visegrad Group countries among surveyed university employees and students. The first part of the paper is dedicated to the theoretical background of the work which includes the concepts of academic entrepreneurship and business attractiveness as well as the macroeconomic environment of the Visegrad Group countries. The second part presents the brief description of the Project, methodology, goals and major assumption of the Project as well as some of the detailed results obtained. The paper ends with brief conclusions.
The article concerns the role of internal communication for efficient management of an organisation. The author divided the article into two parts. The first part-theoretical-was based on critical analysis of literature on the examined topic. It relates to the meaning of organisational communication, myths and misconceptions occurring in this area, key factors of communication, functions of internal communication and exemplary strategies for communication improvement. The second part of the article-empirical-concerns the research realised in the selected organisation, representing an international financial group. The research was carried out with the use of a questionnaire survey and implemented the following goal: analysis and assessment of internal communication, especially factors creating communication and the effectiveness of tools of its realisation. The main topics of the research concerned: general analysis of internal communication in the analysed organisation, factors creating the process of internal communication, assessment of the effectiveness of communicative tools, factors determining the effectiveness of communication and a final analysis of internal communication. The article is finalised with the summary, emphasising the most important results of the research.
In the paper authors showed actual topic concerning connection between marketing and logistics and their spheres. The paper is divided into four main paragraphs which include: good's distribution and marketing instruments, logistics and marketing, marketing logistics and logisticmarketing management. Marketing could not exist without logistics and logistics could not exist without marketingthis main point authors tried to improve in following papers. All positive and negative factors of relation between marketing and logistics were shown. This relation created modern managementlogistic-marketing management.
Purpose: The main concept of the work is to learn, understand, describe and explain the importance of leaders characterized by special moral competences giving them a rational direction to their behaviors and thus to the development of the socially responsible organization in the context of constituting intellectual capital within the process of corporate social responsibility. Design/Methodology/Approach: The paper constitutes the conceptual research framework for further investigations on the position of the leadership in socially responsible organizations which contributes to the increasing role of intellectual capital in the above organizations. The hypotheses summarizing the deliberation based on the critical review of the literature were formulated in the paper. Findings: The preliminary results of the conceptual work carried out indicate that the higher the level of intellectual capital, the higher is the level of excellence in social responsibility. It was also assumed that the key factor shaping intellectual capital of the organization is the emotional intelligence of the leader and the emotional intelligence of the leader positively shapes interpersonal trust in the organization as well as inter-organizational trust. Practical Implications: Presented outcomes may be useful in formulating management strategies of contemporary enterprises based on the specific role of the responsible leader which then may turn into a new paradigm of managing socially responsible organization operating at higher level of responsibility awarness. Originality/value: The results of the research contribute in the cognitive sense to the enrichment of knowledge in terms of responsible leadership and developing intellectual capital of the organizations.
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