Transformations that have been taking place in Polish economics in the space of the last twenty years caused a great number of positive changes in many companies as well as significant drawbacks in the organizational behavior. Therefore, it seems vital to determine the factors which influence...

It is known that economical activities and decisions such as becoming entrepreneur are not only result of pure economical factors, but are also affected by cultural norms and standards. As both entrepreneurship and culture are complex areas of research identifying relations between culture and...

The article describes the role of organizational culture in the international business environment. Its aims to characterize Polish business culture, right after 25 years since the transformation of economic system and to answer the question: ‘Is it more eastern socialistic or global...

European Commission in its Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan stress importance of entrepreneurship for economic growth, job creation and achieving objectives of EU2020 strategy. Many indicators show that level of entrepreneurial activity in European Union especially among youth is much lower...

In the article an original model of safety culture and connected with it research results on the example of enterprises from the coal industry will be presented. Survey included 1170 miners. Thesis concerning that the key role in forming “high” safety culture is played by managers was verified.

In the last decade, the concept of diversity management has become popular in literature and business practice. Nevertheless, the issue of employee diversity is not a novelty, it originates back in the 60s, when the matter of gender equity emerged. Since the 80s, there has been generated quite a...

The book Strategic Approaches to Human Resources Management Practice is focused on the issue of diversity management. This concept fits well with the concept of HR strategy due to its ability to create longterm value for the organization. Nowadays, the diversity management is increasingly...

Employees are reluctant to share knowledge for many reasons. Paper explores knowledge sharing and hoarding processes in organization through social exchange theory. Since it is lack of conceptual framework which would explain knowledge sharing process in coherent manner connecting micro level in...

The recent financial and economic crisis has shown that the world is acting as one and that actions on one part of the world can have substantial reactions on completely other parts of it. We can conclude that companies in 21st Century have to act locally but think and be prepared to react –...

Innovation networking can boost new knowledge production, innovation, knowledge transfer and also commercialisation of new knowledge. These are important factors influencing economic performance of any country. Governments have a central role in encouraging the cooperation among business...