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The article analyzes trends of electronic business in the context of rural development. To highlight the theoretical insights of the topic, the concept of e-business is discussed. This includes analyzing e-business concepts and models, exploring how e-business functions, establishing what factors are important for the development of e-business in rural regions and analyzing statistical data and studies...
The elimination of low-emission sources harmful to human health, mainly domestic boilers, has recently grown into a nation-wide problem in Poland. Emissions of harmful substances from power plants are many times lower than from domestic coal furnaces and are subject to strict regulatory regimes. Hence, companies of the professional and thermal power industry can play an important part in the process...
In the context of the environmental debate, the popular dichotomy of good and evil becomes the dichotomy of ecological and unecological. Since its introduction in 2012, the Tesla Model S has become the synonym of environmentally-friendly driving. The car has become much more than its use-value, not only because its creators have chosen to fill it with meanings (“0 engines, 0 emissions, 100% electric”...
The aim of the paper is analysis of dissemination of management systems in Poland, and to discover if there any difference between management systems dissemination and size of enterprise. On the basis of conducted research, the most widespread management system in the surveyed organizations, besides ISO 9001, was ISO 14001. Moreover, many organizations use IATF 16949, PN 18001, AQUAP, ISO 22000, EMAS,...
Sustainable development when understood as a process of social, economic and environmental change that ensures a balance between profit and development costs, is a kind of ethical project. The fundamental assumption behind the implementation of the idea of sustainable development is, therefore, the awareness of holding responsibility both in the context of actions of whole companies as well as individuals...
Spreadsheets are commonly used in nearly every organization. The tools created by their means may be used to support a multitude of diversified information processes handled in businesses. Such tools can be built in accordance with the concept of ‘Microtools Based on the Relational Data’. One of the problems that must be addressed while such a tool is being created is to ensure the integrity of the...
The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility is becoming a permanent element of the long-term strategy of many organizations. Companies focus on environmental aspects by promoting a number of campaigns related to protection of the natural environment and creating ecological awareness within their employees, which, in today's world (especially in the light of various threats associated with it) is...
In the paper, we present theoretical considerations on the impact of education and knowledge on minimizing unemployment effects in a globalized economy, in the phase of demographic change and in the face of enhanced competitiveness of labor resources and social and professional activation. On the basis of these considerations, particular importance was attributed to human and social capital. In this...
Competitiveness and innovation are indicators of the strength of the circular economy (CE). Eco-innovations are highly important because they lead to the reduction of energy consumption and to lowered CO2 emissions. They also contribute to effective waste management and the use of materials that are less polluting or dangerous to the environment. These investments will increase Europe's economic competitiveness...
Collaborative management means creating organizational structures based on cooperation, and thus creating more effectiveness in the area of management and economic calculation. This article presents the assessment of shared service centers (SSCs) operating the 12 largest Polish cities. The purpose of this article is to attempt to evaluate the effects of implementing a tool characteristic of business...
The aim of the article is to point out the specifics caused by the way of realization of scientific and technological development in the food industry. The contribution deals with the consideration of specifying the challenges that the food industry is currently facing. It also points to the impact on food security in the Slovak Republic. The subject of the research was the Faculty of Chemical and...
The paper focuses on the issues related to motivating employees to work safely in the enterprise. The characteristics of the motivational process and definitions are presented. The general approach to the process of employee motivation is discussed, including the instruments used to stimulate work motivation, both pay and non-pay methods of motivation, e.g. the possibility of promotion, participation...
Identifying inconsistencies and taking adequate actions to eliminate them is an effective way to improve the quality of products. Casting products are one of the items commonly manufactured in the foundry industry. Determining their quality becomes problematic due to a large number of factors affecting them during production which can generate various types of incompatibilities. The problem with a...
The paper seeks to elaborate on the competitive advantage of supply chains from the perspective of networking that is employed in a twofold sense. First, it is used to explore the issue of network competitive advantage, which is considered to deliver benefits to all major actors constituting the supply chains, while in the second sense networking is brought to demonstrate whether actors, as well as...
The paper is a presentation of the overview on the problem of innovation and innovativeness in enterprises located in the Upper-Silesian Region. The author demonstrates that the phenomenon of innovation is inseparably connected with the notion of change, novelty, reform or an idea perceived as new. What differentiates innovation from change is its influence on competitiveness, as well as on accrued...
This paper deals with the collaborative economy - an increasingly quickly developing phenomenon. The author indicates the complexity and diversity of the activities that are understood under this notion, as well as terminological problems associated with them. Factors determining the development of this concept and typical forms of implementation have been discussed. The paper also includes an analysis...
In the digital economy, knowledge is produced within spontaneously emerging communities of peers around a shared domain of interest according to a commons-based mode of intellectual production. This significantly differentiates itself from the dominant mode, based on capital and commodity markets. The community constitutes a self-organized and informal social structure that supports sustainable knowledge...
Effective quality management of the product is an element that allows profit within the enterprise. Identifying unconformity and establishing their source enables quality. However, identifying unconformity is sometimes neglected. Such was evident in the analysis of the service-manufacturing enterprise located in Podkarpacie. In the enterprise, quality was assessed via non-destructive testing (via...
Organizations and decision-makers are increasingly interested and aware of the importance of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. This has led to the adoption of the European Union’s Directive 2014/95/EU regulating the reporting of non-financial and diversity information. The research problem of this paper concerns the top-down Europeanization of corporate social responsibility...
The paper discusses the problem of the place that management science occupies among other sciences, with emphasis on its integration with economic knowledge. The identity of management science is highlighted from the perspective of its historical, albeit relatively short periods of development. Within the context of the fundamental issues of the philosophy of management as exemplified by ontology,...
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