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Pakietyzacja usług z perspektywy konsumenta

Author(s): Marcin Lipowski / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2015

Pakietyzacja usług jest jedną z głównych strategii sektora telekomunikacyjnego. W rzeczywistości sprzedaż wiązana daje okazję do rozwoju poprzez wprowadzenie nowych produktów, przy jednoczesnej minimalizacji wskaźnika utraty klientów wcześniej oferowanych produktów. Artykuł opisuje, jakie usługi konsumenci najczęściej kupują w pakiecie i co skłania ich do zakupu. Przedstawia również wyniki badań na temat możliwej ekspansji pakietów na nowe usługi. Tekst wskazuje również czynniki, które mają wpływ na lojalność konsumentów (nabywcy pakietu usług).

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Evaluating working life quality in Ukraine in terms of business responsibility

Author(s): Ulyana Y. Sadova,Olha S. Hrynkevych,Stanislava R. Pasyeka / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2014

W pracy zastosowano metodologiczne podejście do statystycznej oceny jakości życia osób pracujących (WLQ). Zidentyfikowano szereg wskaźników zgodnie z zasadami koncepcji godnej pracy (ILO) oraz społecznej odpowiedzialności biznesu, które mogą służyć jako podstawa do porównań sytuacji re- gionów Ukrainy, a także oceny poziomu ich działalności gospodarczej. Złożoną metodologię ewaluacji WLQ dostosowano do warunków Ukrainy. Przeanalizowano zależność relacji integralnej oceny WLQ z wieloma ważnymi wskaźnikami rozwoju społecznego i poziomem działalności gospodarczej regionów Ukrainy.

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Inwestowanie etyczne – zasady i efektywność

Author(s): Aleksandra Duliniec,Jacek Tomaszewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2016

Głównym celem artykułu jest prezentacja zasad etycznego inwestowania i kryteriów selekcji inwestycji etycznych oraz analiza porównawcza efektywności inwestycji etycznych i nieetycznych. Artykuł wskazuje na ewolucję sposobu podejścia do budowy portfeli inwestycji etycznych: od podejścia opartego na negatywnej selekcji (wykluczenia z portfela spółek działających w branżach „niepożądanych”) w kierunku selekcji pozytywnej, koncentrującej się na wyborze spółek, które przestrzegają „zasad dobrych praktyk” ładu korporacyjnego i których działalność sprzyja interesom społecznym i środowiskowym. Badania efektywności inwestycji SRI na tle inwestycji tradycyjnych w większości przypadków sugerują, że uwzględnienie kryteriów ESG w budowie portfela ma neutralny wpływ na wyniki portfela etycznego, na tle portfeli tradycyjnych, i jedynie niekiedy wpływ ten jest pozytywny. Przeprowadzone dla potrzeb artykułu badanie porównawcze realnych portfeli inwestycji etycznych, nieetycznych i tradycyjnych dla okresu 2003–2014 wykazało natomiast dominację stóp zwrotu z portfela inwestycji nieetycznych, okupioną jednak wyższą zmiennością stóp zwrotu, wynikającą z niskiej dywersyfikacji sektorowej portfela nieetycznego.

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Сличности и разлике пословне културе у Народној Републици Кини и Републици Србији

Author(s): Katarina Zakić,Xinquan Sun / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 149/2014

World economic crisis has affected the whole world including Serbia. Among various strategies used for improving this difficult situation, Serbian Government primarily focuses on attracting foreign investments. One of the possible future investors could be, among other countries, the People’s Republic of China.At present, Serbian Government is trying to help Chinese investors in Serbia, but there is still a need for better understanding of how Chinese businessmen work, negotiate and make deals. The main goal of this paper is to present similarities and differences in business culture in China and Serbia in order to define possibilities for mutual cooperation.The methodology of this paper is based on cultural dimensions research made by Hofstede. His national dimensions of culture can be used for explanation of specific types of business culture in China and Serbia. The data from this research will show similarities and differences in business culture in these two countries, and also some suggestions are made with regard to improving mutual understanding and doing business.

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Socialinė atsakomybė; Dviračių turizmas; Vartotojų elgsena; Stebėsenos metodas; Organizacijos socialinė atsakomybė

Author(s): Laima Jesevičiūtė-Ufartienė / Language(s): English Issue: 78/2017

The article presents research on consumer social responsibility based on the example of cycling service. The author analyses the tourism sector determining a relation between socially responsible behaviour of an organization and consumer behaviour.

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Around the Bloc: Ukrainian Oligarchs Under Scrutiny for Suspicious Loans

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 01/30/2018

Probe into Privatbank could shine more light on the financial stratagems of the country’s rich and powerful.

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Koncepcja CSR jako norma soft law Rady Europy

Author(s): Kinga Machowicz,Robert Krzysztof Tabaszewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 113/2017

W artykule przedstawiono proces uzupełniania dorobku systemu Rady Europy w zakresie odpowiedzialności społecznej przedsiębiorstw. Przedstawiono mechanizmy stanowienia aktów soft law funkcjonujące w tej organizacji międzynarodowej, a także przedmiotowy zakres CSR wynikający z przyjętych rozwiązań normatywnych. Zauważono, że biznes i prawa człowieka jako zmienne wzajemnie się warunkujące znajdują coraz to nowe płaszczyzny oparcia, nie tylko są usankcjonowane normami prawa stanowionego, ale coraz częściej mogą być promowane i rozpowszechnione dzięki normom soft law.(abstrakt oryginalny) In this article the authors intend to present the issue of corporate social responsibility in the field of human rights law. The term CSR is used to describe a mechanism by which business entities take responsibility for their social actions. The article attempts to show the main ways of providing soft law guidance to assist member States of the Council of Europe in preventing and remedying human rights violations by business enterprises.(original abstract)

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CSR as a source for competitive advantage and business risk restriction in MSMEs

Author(s): Jolanta Korkosz-Gębska / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2014

This article focuses on corporate social responsibility, understood as a moral or legal obligation to account for one's own actions, or to assume the duty to care for something or someone. It focuses on the elements that corporate social responsibility should involve, such as directing activities towards economic, environmental and ethical aspects.

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Around the Bloc: Banking Scandals Rock Latvia

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 02/27/2018

Authorities say arrest of central bank chief is unrelated to suspicions centered on the country’s third biggest lender.

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УТИЦАЈ ПРАВНЕ СИГУРНОСТИ НА СТРАНЕ ДИРЕКТНЕ ИНВЕСТИЦИЈЕ И ПРИВРЕДНИ РАЗВОЈ

Author(s): Jovana Brašić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 77/2017

Foreign direct investment is one of the most important factors of economic development in modern business conditions. The growing importance of foreign direct investments is conditioned by the processes of globalization, integration and liberalization of market conditions of business operations. It has been further prompted by numerous activities of the state importing capital with the aim of improving the business climate and stimulating the inflow of foreign capital. The most important segment of the overall business environment is legal safety, as a fundamental principle for all democratic countries. Legal safety contributes to accelerating the inflow of foreign direct investment. The author points to the link between legal safety and foreign direct investment, as well as their impact on economic development, based on the assumption that if there is no legal safety, there are no foreign investments. Therefore, bearing in mind the importance of foreign direct investments, the author analyzes the impact of legal safety on their inflow, the constraints related to attaining legal safety in the Republic of Serbia, as well as the indication of the indirect operation of legal safety on the economic development of states.

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Corporate Social Responsibility or Corporate Social Irresponsibility: where should be the focus?

Author(s): M. M. Sulphey / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2017

With multiple scandals and a host of disingenuous actions creating ripples across the corporate world, it is high time that Corporate Social Irresponsibility (CSI) is accorded the due importance, at par with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), by academia and the industry. CSI refers to situations wherein firms fail to meet a “minimum behavioral standard with respect to the corporation’s relationship with its stakeholders”. There have been many instances wherein CSI and corporate wrongdoings have been covered up with CSR. Many scholars consider CSR and CSI as opposite forces that are interconnected and interdependent, and take turns in giving rise to each other. CSI, being an emergent and a topical subject area, is yet to develop in terms of theory, and is still evolving. The present work attempts to motivate further investigation in the emerging area by presenting theoretical views and available accumulated empirical works. The study has puts across a fair view of the topic. It is expected that the present work will stimulate scholars to take up further investigation in the emerging area.

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Around the Bloc: Oligarch Akhmetov in Legal Hot Water

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 01/16/2018

Asset freezes, extradition proceedings are crimping the style of some of Ukraine’s most powerful tycoons.

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Organizations and People for Sustainability

Author(s): Mauro Romanelli / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Organizations proceed towards sustainability rediscovering the role of ethics and human resources. Managing human resources systems and designing work relationships is leading organizations to follow ethical approaches, values, and culture in starting entrepreneurial ventures and doing business for building sustainable development. Organizations should sustain and encourage ethical behaviors at work creating organizational environments ethics-oriented by managing, valuing people and developing the human resources capabilities. Designing a path to drive organizations towards sustainability relies on defining the relationships of employment ranging from the psychological contract to designing contractual architectures, governing and managing human resources and promoting ethics by sustaining an organizational culture ethics-oriented.

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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY – NEW REALITY OF CORPORATE IDENTITY OF EUROPEAN COMPANIES

Author(s): Mirjana Borota Popovska,Vasil Popovski,Marija Topuzovska / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2011

Corporate social responsibility is defined with the European document of 2006 (Implementing the Partnership for Growth and Jobs: Making Europe a Pole of Excellence on CSR), in which corporate social responsibility is a concept by which companies integrate care for the community and environment into their business activities and their interdependence with other stakeholders on a voluntary basis. This definition implies that in order for business entities to be socially responsible they have to act over the existing legal framework to meet certain social requirements. By embracing the principles of corporate social responsibility, it is expected that business entities together with the other stakeholders would have an agreement on economic, social and environmental objectives. The aim of the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs of the EU is to create a business environment that will maintain the sustainable development of society as a whole and to presents an opportunity for promotion of initiatives for development of civil society. Corporate social responsibility is a complex phenomenon whose far-reaching implications contribute to the development of such a business environment. The text will make a comprehensive analysis of European policy, which encourages the practice of corporate social responsibility in terms of social expectations, the expectations of consumers, investors, community and NGOs. For competitive functioning of Macedonian companies on the European market, making a series of bureaucratic, financial and legal settings will not be enough. There is a need for building a corporate identity, or more specifically, improvement of one aspect that has been largely neglected, and this is promoting the aspect of corporate social responsibility that should target the socio-economic challenges and integrate them into the business practice. Building a corporate identity that is perceived mainly through the corporate brand or brands should consider the corporate communication, corporate image and corporate reputation. Corporate identity actually represents the reality and uniqueness of a company.

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Etyka gospodarcza jako refleksja nad jakościowym potencjałem działalności ekonomicznej

Author(s): Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

The present paper develops the concept of ethics as a reflection on the qualitative potential of financial activity. It suggests that the quantitative‑instrumental utility of financial categories, such as profit and loss, can be fully actualized exclusively in an appropriate qualitative‑autotelic surrounding – thus, it suggests that economic efficiency, far from being in an immanent tension with ethical justifiability, is actually its natural consequence.What is particularly emphasized in this context is the potential of entrepreneurial creativity with respect to transcending apparent moral dichotomies, such as self‑interest versus other‑interest or profitability versus philanthropy. Special emphasis is also placed on the fact that the so‑called knowledge‑based economy, a characteristic feature of the era of the information revolution, creates particularly favorable conditions for the development of the aforesaid entrepreneurial creativity and its ethical potential.

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Around the Bloc: EU to Ban Dual-Quality Food

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 04/17/2018

Commission bows to pressure from the east to end the practice, which food giants say simply reflects different consumer preferences.

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Społeczna odpowiedzialność biznesu a produkt ubezpieczeniowy społecznie odpowiedzialny

Author(s): Sylwia Bożek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 500/2017

The main aim of the article is to illustrate the determinants involved in building a conceptual model insurance product based on the concept of CRS. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a subject of many studies and analyses, in this article it is related to the insurance business. The author summarizes the relevant literature and proposes the model of social responsibility insurance product (SRIP) as an approach to improve the understanding innovation by interactions with the key stakeholders, especially with customers of insurance services.

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Wczoraj, dziś i jutro formuły standardowej SCR

Author(s): Daria Ringwelska-Ładak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 500/2017

The article aims at presenting the author’s experience from the first years of the Solvency II implementation in terms of the solvency capital requirement standard formula and its planned revision as a new challenge that (re)insurance undertakings will have to face. The author focused on the public works of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) in terms of the standard formula and on its advice containing proposals of simplifications, changes in the methodology or parameters of the standard formula, so that they are rationally related to the risk profile of the (re)insurance undertakings. Attention was focused on the EIOPA study, conducted among (re)insurance undertakings, regarding the revision of the SCR standard formula and on the attempt to assess both the possible changes and development of the standard formula.

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RETHINKING OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP: TOWARDS SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Author(s): Marijan Cingula,Marina Klačmer Čalopa / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2006

Social entrepreneurship is highlighted as a result of general entrepreneurship development because the traditional entrepreneurial factors are accomplished with the social aspects of common good. Entrepreneur's responsibility in choosing the main business activity within an industry increases if the way he conducts his activities is considered. Institutional support for social entrepreneurship is achieved by generating many business activities in order to fulfil different kinds of social needs. Social entrepreneurship is possible if both entrepreneur’s initiative and institutional support for small and medium sized enterprises (SME) are included in performing for traditionally non-profit activities. Allowing private initiative to fulfil the real needs of different users in social, educational, cultural and other non-profit fields is a good way to support SMEs. However, the institutional control should still remain in place in order to protect the minimum performing standards.The development of social entrepreneurship in transition countries is important for general economic development, but also for the supporting values of ethics in business activities.

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Examination of General Managers Individual Values Related to CSR Among Hungarian Small Organizations

Author(s): Andrea Benedek,István Takács,Katalin Takács-György / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2015

More and more corporations , both multinationals and SMEs, decide that during their business activities they take into consideration such strict social and environmental aspects that are beyond the rules and requirements of the country they operate in. One of its reasons is that the corporate decisions have impacts not only on the immediate environment but also on the whole society. The present study examines and reveals the value priorities of the chief executives and the impact of those on CSR among Hungarian small and medium enterprises. The study also represents the value of the sample. The results of the primary research reveals that the value preferences of the general managers have their impact on the CSR activities of the company and hence certain main values of the individual determine the practice of the CSR. Those leaders who can be characterised by goodwill and universalism are more concerned with CSR and it is clearly shown in their CSR activities. In the examined Hungarian sample a group of leaders (25%) could be distinguished who consider CSR as a competitive advantage. These leaders are considered to be leaders with modern CSR viewpoint. They are committed to CSR and implement the modern CSR approach into practice, into the strategy of the corporation and into their activity and guide their organisation along these aspects.

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