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Owners vs. managers: Disparities of attitudes on the business risk in SME segment

Dvorský, Ján; Kozubikova, Ludmila; Ključnikov, Aleksandr - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 24 (2022) 59, pp. 174-193

The article aims to identify disparities in the perception of business risks between the owners and managers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the V4 countries. The statements of strategic, market, personnel, legal and operational risks are the research's subject. Disparities of...

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Comparative Assessment of Research & Development and Quality of Life Indicators in Lithuania and Greece

Streimikiene, Dalia; Kyriakopoulos, Grigorios L. - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 24 (2022) Special Issue No. 16, pp. 1014-1033

In recent years, it has been widely accepted that research and experimental development (R&D) is leading innovations and economic growth, as they are supposed to provide an increase in the well-being of the population. The paper analyses the scientific literature on the linkages between research...

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No resilience without partners: A case study on German small and medium-sized enterprises in the context of COVID-19

Trunk, Anna; Birkel, Hendrik - In: Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research (SBUR) 74 (2022) 4, pp. 537-574

. Using a multiple case study approach, this paper links resilience theory to the design of the relationships between eight …, that is, before COVID-19 and during the lockdowns. The results of the case study explain why and how companies of this type …

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Toward holistic corporate sustainability—Developing employees' action competence for sustainability in small and medium‐sized enterprises through training

Schröder, Sophia; Wiek, Arnim; Farny, Steffen; … - In: Business Strategy and the Environment 32 (2022) 4, pp. 1650-1669

To advance holistic corporate sustainability in small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) requires employees to fully engage in sustainability efforts, which, in return, means to develop employees' action competence for sustainability. Little empirical evidence, however, exists on how to do...

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Productive uses of electricity at the energy-health nexus: Financial, technical and social insights from a containerized power system in Rwanda

Miles, Samuel B.; Kersey, Jessica; Cecchini, Emiliano; … - In: Development Engineering 7 (2022), pp. 1-17

We present a case study of successful uptake of a productive use of electricity (PUE) co-located at an off-grid clinic …

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Spotify: From music streaming start-up to global audio company

Schmid, Stefan; Romey, Tobias - 2022

solutions for artists and music producers alike. This case study describes the development of the music industry before the … music market in the world, namely, the US, the case study focuses on the company's growth. We show that acquisitions of … major labels has changed, and this case study reveals how Spotify has gained power while getting more independent from the …

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Socio-economic impact of the interest-free community investment fund: A case study of rural Sindh, Pakistan

Memon, Pervaiz Ahmed; Kalhoro, Muhammad Ramzan; Tariq, Kiran - In: Economies 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-19

This study aims to measure the impact of an intervention, the Community Investment Fund (CIF), on the socio-economic life of rural women. CIF is a community-managed fund aimed at improving the living standards of women by empowering them to undertake income-generating projects to become...

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The case experience of integrating the SDGs into corporate strategies for financial risk management based on social responsibility (with the Example of Russian TNCs)

Kharlanov, Alexey S.; Bazhdanova, Yuliya V.; … - In: Risks 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-19

The motivation of this research consists in the following: the traditional commercial approach to financial risk management amid economic crises implies the reduction of corporate social responsibility, based on the assumption that this responsibility raises the financial risk of business. Due...

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Using the Leiden Rankings as a heuristics: Evidence from Italian universities in the European landscape

Daraio, Cinzia; Di Leo, Simone; Leydesdorff, Loet - 2022

We propose an innovative use of the information provided by the Leiden Rankings (LR). Although LR only consider research output of major universities reported in Web of Science, statistical analysis of LRs combined with network mapping can reveal the complexity of research performance...

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A resource-based analysis of strategic alliances between knowledge intermediaries in regional innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems

Bäumle, Philipp; Bizer, Kilian - 2022

Notwithstanding a recent upsurge in interest in knowledge intermediaries and their roles in innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems, we know little about the interplay between the activities of academia driven intermediaries and their publicly financed counterparts. Building upon a combination...

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