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The increasing size, complexity, and geographical reach of global firms continually raise the bar for effective culturally diverse workgroup performance. Culturally diverse teams provide the opportunity for a greater number of cross cultural interactions and present a number of benefits for teams including increasing innovation, creativity and problem solving capabilities. For managing cultural diversity...
This paper is a short commentary on Elinor Ostrom’s criticism of ‘The Tradegy of Commons’, which is part of her research on Common Pool Resources (CPR) institutions. She delivered an institutional theory of Common Pool Resources governance and also seriously undermined so called social paradoxes, as Olsons’ logic of collective action or prisoners dilemma as a model of social situations. The core of...
It is nowadays impossible for any business to implement innovation while isolated and by being based solely on its own potential, as modern innovations cannot exist without open discussion and the flow of various resources (capital, informational, material etc.) not only within the enterprise, but also between it and other entities in the market. Therefore it is partners who play an exceptional part...
This article is about commitment of flexible workers. It is based on our own question-naire investigation. The research took place in February and March 2011. It was carried out among 36 organizations which function in the area of the Silesia voivodeship. Four hypothe-sis were verified. First: “workers doing work within flexible forms of employment show smaller commitment then stable workers”; second:...
The diagnosis of the managerial process is one of the most important problems of investigations. Current literature approaches refer rather to the whole business process of the organization. This is why it has been proposed, in this paper, the conception of the model of causative factors. This model refers to the 7S and 9S models of organization. The proposed model of causative factors based on two...
The current system of higher education requires from the university a high quality teaching service and making all kinds of efforts aimed at continuous improvement of education quality through formal and legal conditions and competitive environment. This paper presents the innovative model to provide the quality of education by including the study of expectations and satisfaction of the recipients...
The efficiency of introduced controlling solutions was examined in the work in the enterprise on the basis of the analysis of the case. It was affirmed, it did not have the influence on the improvement of profitability from introduction and modernizing the system helping the management. One can not exclude that the introduction of this system did not have the positive influence on the efficiency of...
There are no doubts about clusters being a perfect form of knowledge sharing and mutual learning, transferring multi-field knowledge that crosses the borders of a sector or a company. They also constitute a new approach to the cooperation of companies that compete with each other on the market. Clusters can, according to the experience of Western countries, become the driving force behind the development...
The global economic crisis has undoubtedly meant that companies around the world have been affected by a number of its negative consequences. Although the current world economy recorded a slow growth, but this crisis are still being felt by businesses, particularly representing the SME sector, especially in the fall in demand, rising costs, worsening liquidity. The paper provides theoretical and empirical...
The transformation of the Polish economy has changed the situation of companies dramatically and the opening of borders to foreign entities and products has caused fundamental changes on both domestic and foreign markets. Innovativeness of the European Union member states is one of the most important factors which will be determining the competitiveness of economy and companies of the agribusiness...
Estimated on Poland’s largest known sample, Firth’s logistic regression model which is used for predicting bankruptcy constitutes a unique and specific model which is highly effective in predicting the level of threat to company bankruptcy when compared to other models, used not only in Poland but also abroad.
In the following study I signalized the varied normalized management systems, that can be im-plemented by every organization. Premises of normalized systems' implemention are dependent from a single organization's specific character, connected with internal arrange-ment and interac-tions with the environment they are working in. Both internal and market structure are carriers of potential risks influencing...
The authors present the concept of using Web 2.0 technology to develop the knowledge and skills of logistics staff. Today's situation on the global markets requires companies to gain skills to be used with short-term opportunities. Short-term opportunities necessitates that information and knowledge are available on a "just-in-time" basis. The internet gives such a possibility. An additional...
The short life-cycle products require an original method to be produced and sold. It was developed following theoretical studies complemented by long-term empirical research on manufacturing companies. In the first stage, the graphic method was applied to construct a business cycle model for seasonal products that served to design an original production management method. The model consists of four...
The ongoing processes of integration and globalization, as well as the emphasis on innovativeness, constantly change the source of success of not only large companies, but also micro and small enterprises. In order to effectively compete locally and globally, such entities should possess an established model of behavior in a competitive environment, one which is infused with the spirit of innovativeness...
One may distinguish three dominant approaches to empowerment: managerial, psycho-managerial, psychological. The managerial approach has a few disadvantages, inter alia, it is hard to treat it as a consistent view, rather it is a set of grouped information, on which some typologies are built. The psycho-managerial approach seems to be consistent and has undisputable application features. It refers...
This article concerns the issue of core competencies concentration. The theory introduced by Hamel and Prahalad has not been extensively empirically investigated. This paper is an attempt to interlink empirically the utility of core competencies concentration with the enterprise innovativeness. In other words, there was verified the assumption about positive impact of key competencies on enterprise...
The development of logistic centers in Poland is dependent on a series of conditions. When based on West European countries’ experiences, forms and instruments which support such development become the major factor. There hasn’t yet evolved any firm–public politics model for logistic centers in Poland. Initiatives in this respect should be demonstrated by a public sector of different ranks. The article...
The subjects of research carried out under this study are matters concerning changes which occurred during the last few years in the field of strategic human resource management in higher education institutions in Poland. The research aimed to identify the main aspects of strategic human resource management in higher education institutions was first conducted by the author in 2003. The other task...
The low level of innovativeness in the Polish economy in comparison to other countries can even be considered as a permanent feature. Looking at the factors that affect this state of affairs it seems particularly significant that these factors point to a lack of adequate mechanisms for innovation, manifested in a very limited co-operation between science and the business sector. In this context, the...
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THE PARTICULAR CONTRIBUTION OF THESE RESULTS SHOWS THAT DISTRIBUTIVE FAIRNESS, CUSTOMER INTERFACE QUALITY, PERCEIVED SECURITY, PERCEIVED USEFULNESS AND TRUST ARE SIGNIFICANT PREDICTORS OF MCUSTOMER SATISFACTION
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