Economic Activity and Social Determinants Versus Etrepreneurship in Smes – Selected Aspects

Małecka, Joanna; Łuczka, Teresa; Šebestová, Jarmila; Šperka, Roman

doi:10.12775/cjfa.2017.016

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“…At the same time, it must be admitted that the size and composition of the survey pool and the statistical modelling were not robust and that the entire case study has a potential to offer rather indicative than conclusive propositions. Nevertheless, this proposition appears to be sufficiently relevant, i.e., it is not pioneering and basically matches with the prevailing tenor based on the stakeholder theory (Małecka et al 2017;Sroka and Lörinczy 2015;Ting et al 2019), the importance of the authenticity concept (Nunes et al 2021) and a line of previous studies (D'Adamo and Lupi 2021).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 63%

“…CSR is a private reflection of the public concept of sustainability, i.e., it is a systemic reaction of each individual business to the global and general call for a balanced management and use of resources . It represents a dialogue and interaction between businesses, corporations and their stakeholders (Małecka et al 2017), including customers ) within the given legal framework and set state policies (Šebestová et al 2018). Since, within the EU, the CSR leads to only a rather weak reporting duty of certain strategic entities , it is generally in the discretion of European businesses, including Czech businesses, whether and, if yes, how, where and to what extent they will do it .…”

Section: Theoretical Background-the Carroll's Csr Pyramid Temple Believers and Heretics Before And During The Covid-19 Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

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CSR Unconscious Consumption by Generation Z in the COVID-19 Era—Responsible Heretics Not Paying CSR Bonus?

Pelikánová

Hála

2021

JRFM

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The COVID-19 pandemic brought a myriad of challenges and opportunities and has influenced the modern concept of sustainability as projected into the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the underlying multi-stakeholder model. The new generation of consumers, Generation Z, has progressively increased its participation in the market and its shopping trends have been impacting the entire CSR scenery. However, little is known about their attitudes, consumption preferences and expectations. In Spring 2021, this induced a pioneering case study survey involving members of Generation Z, students from a private university in Prague, focusing on their (lack of) readiness to pay any “CSR bonus”. The principal research aim was to study and understand the rather surprising unwillingness of a solvent part of the new generation of consumers to support CSR during the COVID-19 era by paying at least a symbolic CSR bonus. A formal survey involving a questionnaire, replied to by 228 students, out of which 18 totally rejected the CSR bonus, was assessed via contingency tables. It was accompanied by a complementary questioning via an informal interview and glossing. This plethora of data was processed by meta-analysis and lead to an unexpected proposition: prima facie sustainability heretics denying to pay any CSR bonus can be conscious consumers and responsible and progressive supporters of the sustainability and CSR. Their rejection is a deontological cry in a desert for more transparency, trust and the rule of law.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 63%

Section: Theoretical Background-the Carroll's Csr Pyramid Temple Believers and Heretics Before And During The Covid-19 Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

CSR Unconscious Consumption by Generation Z in the COVID-19 Era—Responsible Heretics Not Paying CSR Bonus?

Pelikánová

Hála

2021

JRFM

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“…Consequently, the EU has newly set a legal duty for large public-interest entities with more than 500 employees to include, in the management report, a non-financial statement linked to CSR [46], see Directive 2013/34/EU, Directive (EU) 2017/1132 and Regulation 2015/884 as updated [15]. The EU motto "united in diversity" neatly fits in with the perception of CSR as a dialogue and interaction between businesses, corporations, and their stakeholders [47] including customers [43] and is reflected by EU policies [48,49], which, so far, lead to only one legal duty regarding CSR for only some subjects-to report about it. Thusly, so far, it is up to the discretion of the businesses how much they will engage with CSR and its six categories, how they use it as competition leverage [44], and inform about it [10].…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

CSR Statements in International and Czech Luxury Fashion Industry at the Onset and during the COVID-19 Pandemic—Slowing Down the Fast Fashion Business?

2021

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COVID-19 leads to a reinforced need to address sustainability at the economic, environmental, and social pillars, and the six categories of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of businesses, that is, their self-commitment to integrate sustainability in their policies and strategies and to become more effective and efficient. Luxury fashion businesses refer heavily but not identically, to their CSR, by formally issuing CSR reports and Codes of Ethics, and informally voicing their pro-CSR statements. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic hit and brought important changes. This burning issue translates into three objectives in this paper—assessing the CSR statements of International and Czech Luxury Fashion Industry businesses (i) at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, (ii) during the COVID-19 pandemic, and (iii) identifying new trends. To address them, a holistic and interdisciplinary case study exploration was performed entailing 10 International Luxury Fashion businesses and 10 Czech Luxury Fashion businesses. The resulting data were explored via Meta-Analysis and content analysis, teleological interpretations, etc. The critical and comparative review revealed six interesting trends indicating a shift in perception of sustainability and CSR caused by COVID-19. The review offers propositions for how the COVID-19 threats could become an opportunity for rebuilding this industry.

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“…Before a deeper engagement with particularities of COVID-19 challenges for Czech SMEs and the specificities of their reactions and impact, it needs to be considered both regional and national political and legal context. The EU motto “united in diversity” and the underlying idea “Europe can succeed if it acts collectively, as a Union” (MacGregor Pelikánová, 2014) brought a clear demand to readjust the dialogue and interaction between businesses, corporations and their stakeholders (MacGregor Pelikánová, 2017; Małecka et al , 2017) and to update appropriate law and policy frameworks (Šebestová et al , 2018). The primary EU law, especially the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (“TFEU”) underlines the social and environmental dimensions (Polcyn et al , 2019), along with the economic dimension (MacGregor Pelikánová and MacGregor, 2018).…”

Section: Overview Of the Literature Legislative And Analytical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Addressing the COVID-19 challenges by SMEs in the hotel industry – a Czech sustainability message for emerging economies

Pelikánová

Cvik²,

MacGregor

2021

JEEE

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Purpose Emerging economies have to address positive challenges such as sustainability, digitalization, entrepreneurial readiness and planning and behavioral strategies and negative challenges, such as corruption and bureaucracy. The COVID-19 pandemic hit all economies and arguably made hotel businesses that are from less typical emerging economies, such as the Czech Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to deal with similar challenges to that of their counterparts from typical emerging economies. How do Czech hotel SMEs address the COVID-19 challenges and what sustainability message can be extracted from that with the relevance for not only businesses from emerging economies? The purpose of this paper is to explore how Czech hotel SMEs address the COVID-19 challenges and what sustainability. Design/methodology/approach A consolidated parsing of the literature, legislative and analytical framework, along with an investigative case study of 11 Czech hotel SMEs was performed, based on the questionnaire survey and semi-structured in-depth direct interviews. The holistic thematic analysis processed this fresh data and allowed Socratic questioning and glossing while addressing both research questions. Findings The performed case study reveals that typical challenges faced by entrepreneurs in emerging economies became, via COVID-19, universal challenges, these challenges are a valuable impulse for digitalization and changes of entrepreneurial strategies, but not so much for sustainability, and the omnipresent negative impact of corruption and bureaucracy. Originality/value This paper presents a pioneering study regarding the addressing COVID-19 and sustainability concerns by SMEs in a less typical emerging economy and offering a universal, partially comparative and sadly not so sustainable, message which is not just limited to emerging economies.

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Economic Activity and Social Determinants Versus Etrepreneurship in Smes – Selected Aspects

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

CSR Unconscious Consumption by Generation Z in the COVID-19 Era—Responsible Heretics Not Paying CSR Bonus?

CSR Unconscious Consumption by Generation Z in the COVID-19 Era—Responsible Heretics Not Paying CSR Bonus?

CSR Statements in International and Czech Luxury Fashion Industry at the Onset and during the COVID-19 Pandemic—Slowing Down the Fast Fashion Business?

Addressing the COVID-19 challenges by SMEs in the hotel industry – a Czech sustainability message for emerging economies

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