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The purpose of this paper is to synthesise the literature on the relationship between diversity management and the main organisational and team outcomes (organisational performance, job performance, organisational commitment and turnover). The author conducts a meta-analysis of the relationship between diversity management and organisational and team outcomes using a sample of 17 studies and 29 different...
Testing hypotheses or evaluation confidence intervals requires knowledge of some statistics’ distributions. It is convenient if the probability distribution of the statistic converges to normal distribution when the sample size is sufficiently large. This paper examines the problem of how to evaluate sample size in order to determine that a statistic’s distribution does not depart from normal distribution...
The paper is a preliminary study of the concept of ethical packaging. Its main aim is to define the term “ethical packaging” and systemise a magnitude of the ethical issues surrounding packaging. A review of the literature on ethics and packaging enable the definition of such terms as business ethics, corporate ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Triple Bottom Line, ethical consumption, ethical...
The hygienic properties of lining leathers can be improved significantly by introducing oregano essential oil into leathers. This is because adding antiseptic oil makes leathers more resistant to microorganisms that are potentially harmful to humans and cause damage to animal leathers. The paper presents the results of tests to check selected mechanical properties – tensile strength, elongation and...
Consumer protection today represents a modern segment of human rights, which in recent years has carved out a wider role in national, European and international law. The objective of this paper is to show the fundamental principles of consumer protection in the Republic of Slovenia, where intensive consumer protection began to take root after the country gained its independence in 1991. In the subsequent...
The Consumer Rights Act of 30 May 2014 implements to the Polish legal system the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council 2011/83/EU of 25 October 2011 on consumer rights. It should therefore provide a comprehensive regulation on the contracts whose parties are the trader and the consumer. For the correct determination of the legal situation of the traders concluding contracts with...
The purpose of this article is to undertake a legal analysis of the legal process of implementing Directive 2013/11/EU into the Polish legal order and to present the legal consequences of a failure to transpose the Directive within the prescribed period. In the first part, the author presents the description of work that has been done at the EU level on the alternative resolution of consumer disputes...
Directive 2007/64 on payment services (PSD 1) introduced protection for consumers of payment services. First and foremost, the consumer should receive the basic information required by law before and after the execution of a payment. Secondly, the consumer is made more familiar with the charges incurred when paying in shops, including online shops. Third, PSD 1 provided the protection of consumer...
The real estate development contract is partially regulated in the Act on the protection of the purchaser of dwelling premises or a detached house. This Act provides for three types of consumer protection measures: those related to the protection of the purchaser’s interest at the moment of concluding the contract, those that secure his payments and those related to the stage of implementing the commitments...
The article focuses on the legal classification of cosmetic products and the protection of consumers as the buyers of cosmetics products. Provided under the international and the national legal systems, the protection is guaranteed by two equally valid legal bases: the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council (EC) of 30 November 2009, No 1223/2009 on cosmetic products and the Act of...
According to the signalling theory, investors draw conclusions concerning the future income potential of a given company based on the dividends it pays. According to one of the implications of this theory, changes made to a dividend should mirror the direction of future profits. This article presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between the current changes in the level of a dividend paid...
The paper presents the possibilities of identifying business risk on the basis of data disclosed in integrated reporting. The research method used relies on a review of Polish and foreign literatures and an empirical analysis of integrated reports disclosed in 2016. The structure of the reports, which complies with the most recent trends and international recommendations with regard to integrated...
This article examines the development of the insurance business in Ukraine and Poland from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. It identifies special aspects of the formation and use of elements of sacred art in the corporate identity of insurance companies. Dniester Mutual Insurance Company and Florianka Krakow Mutual Insurance Company are a particular focus. Examples of the use...
The aim of this study is to present is to present what makes the location of accounting outsourcing centres successful given the complexity of their operations. For this purpose, a matrix developed by the author will be used (established on the basis of a pilot study realised in 2016) on the relationship between the complexity of processes and the costs generated in connection with their implementation...
From a theoretical point of view, the scope and quality of available information determines the market efficiency and, thus, investors’ decisions. However, an excessive amount of information leads to information overload. In the case of textual data, advanced analytical methods must be applied to identify some regularities and trends within the analysed text corpora. Text mining may be useful in supporting...
The first cryptographic currency (Bitcoin) was created in 2009. Since then, cryptocurrencies have undergone dynamic development, and their user numbers risen apace. This article analyses and estimates the impact, development and growth of cryptographic currencies on the stability and functioning of financial systems. The paper also examines whether cryptocurrencies fulfill the basic functions of money...
The paper presents a production system in the Debreu model of general equilibrium. According to Schumpeter, economic development is possible only on the strength of innovations being introduced. This process provides a sequence of optimal production plans, corresponding to each stage of the innovative evolution. The paper characterises the sequence of optimal plans and provides the conditions for...
The paper examines the super-replication of contingent claims in a discrete time financial market with proportional transaction costs. The sole assumption on stock price dynamics is that the returns are bounded. The class of path-dependent European options with nonnegative convex payoff functions is considered. It is proved that the pricing of this type of options can be studied through the pricing...
The main purpose of the study is to evaluate the impact of European funds on the level and structure of public expenditure in Poland. Basically, the research period covers the years 2000–2016. In pursuit of objectivity, the following hypothesis is put forth: EU funding has a significant impact on the amount and structure of public expenditure. The analysis of data on the amount of European funds supporting...
One type of effectiveness is partial effectiveness determined while the project is on-going. It takes into account the progress of work being performed and the costs incurred. The article analyses and assesses the effectiveness of tools for monitoring the partial effectiveness of scientific projects. The specific goal is to determine the relationship between the current evaluation and partial effectiveness...
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