Business: Theory and Practice

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List of Papers (Total 414)

Influence of world commodity prices on the dynamics of income of exporting countries of natural resources under globalization

A feature of modern globalization processes is their vulnerability to the volatility of short-term capital flows, which, combined with the growing volatility of commodity prices, have created serious difficulties for the economic policies of commodity-oriented countries. Therefore, the study of the impact of world commodity prices on the dynamics of economic growth of countries...

Business ethics in human resources management practices and its impact on the organizational performance

There is a growing interest in BEs at present, because it has become an important necessity in all business functions in organizations, particularly HRM. Human resources function deals with one of the most important resources in the company to improve performance and gain competitive advantage. Therefore, HRM practices should be applied based on ethical principles such as...

The effect of financial inclusion and financial technology on effectiveness of the Indonesian monetary policy

The existence of non-inclusive households significantly reduces the effect of the interest rate change policy on households inter-temporal consumption decisions. Further, financial inclusion is closely related to fintech. On the one hand, fintech helps overcome the financial inclusion problem because fintech manages to reach those who were previously inaccessible by banks. On the...

Talent retention strategies and employees’ behavioural outcomes: empirical evidence from hospitality industry

To enhance the extant literature of talent retention and proffering solution to the negative employees’ behavioural outcomes of high performers in hospitality industry, this study investigates the influence of talent retention strategies (training and development, and job security) on employees’ behavioural outcomes (employee job performance and employee job commitment) in...

A qualitative study OF Green HRM practices and their benefits in the organization: an Indonesian company experience

Green Human Resource Management (HRM) aims to shape employee behavior to help organizations achieve their environmentally-friendly goals. Firms can translate the implementation of Green HRM concept into each HRM function. This paper is qualitative exploratory research that investigates the implementation of Green HRM in a company located in Indonesia that is internationally...

Indonesian peer to peer lending (P2P) at entrant’s disruptive trajectory

Peer to peer (P2P) lending in Indonesia has been growing rapidly, therefore there is the potential for disruptive innovation processes in the financial sector. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of the growth of P2P lending on the growth of bank lending for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) and Non-MSME debtors. Separating the scale of the debtor is important...

Direct and indirect effects of operant resources on co-creation experience: empirical evidence from Airbnb consumers

This study aims to empirically analyze the direct and indirect effects of operant resources on co-creation experience of Airbnb consumers. Specifically, this study examines operant resources’ impact on perceived benefits, trust, and co-creation experience. In addition, this study also investigates the effect of perceived benefits, and trust on co-creation experience. We managed...

Values of young employees: Z-generation perception

The current paper aims to analyse the importance of values of young employees now and in five years period. In order to achieve the aim, the questionnaire consisting of fifty statements was developed and disseminated between the Latvian students. The sample size was 392, which shows that the results represent the whole populations. For data processing, factor analysis was chosen...

Identification the ways of counteraction of the threats to the financial security of high-tech enterprises

Identified key external and internal threats significantly affect the process of ensuring the financial security of the enterprise. The application of the mechanism of counteraction to the influence of external and internal threats is characterized by important. The mechanism for countering threats to the financial security of a high-tech enterprise, unlike existing ones...

Integrated value co-creation and affective commitment in banking industry

Co-creation is a seminal concept in marketing, explained as the engagement between service provider and customer in creating value. This concept has grown into a rich and wide array of studies that have become an area of intense focus in the discipline. Nevertheless, the understanding of the concept, especially in service marketing, is mostly still developing in silos rather than...

Shadow employment in Eastern Europe: practical aspects of evaluation and counteraction

The paper outlines the main problems of shadowing of the labor market in Eastern Europe on the example of Ukraine and explores the factors that have a direct impact on them. A comparative analysis of the most widespread methods of tax evasion in Ukraine has been conducted. Using the software package MS Excel and CurveExpert 5.0, a study was made of the dynamics of the population...

Money laundering risk in developing and transitive economies: analysis of cyclic component of time series

Money laundering has become a global threat to the international stability and security, leading both to economic and social upheavals, and to an increase in terrorist threats. Therefore, an objective necessity arises for a more detailed study of the money laundering within the scope of its developmental patterns and time-dependent behaviour. The study mission is the development...

Employers’ policies and attitudes towards the performance of older employees in Lithuania

The ageing labour force is the one of the main challenges for the labour market in Lithuania. The working career of older employees very much depends on the policies and attitude of employers. Thus, the aim of this paper is to analyse the policies and attitudes of Lithuanian employers towards older employees. The data of Eurobarometer 76.2 in 2011 and the data of the employers...

Market price forecasting and profitability – how to tame mrandom walk?

Directional forecasting of a future market price development of liquid investment instruments is the focus of interest of investment companies, individual investors, banks and other financial market participants. This problematic has still not been fully answered because the market price development is a process which is very close to a random walk and appropriate models are...

Factors influencing national competitiveness

Currently, special attention is being paid to the issue of national competitiveness. Countries establish councils for national competitiveness, provide discussions, estimate competitiveness and, according to the obtained results, create and implement strategies. However, the popularity of the concept of national competitiveness does not give clear understanding about its real...

Entrepreneurship education in humanities and Social Sciences: are students qualified to start a business?

Over the last decade, entrepreneurship education has been acknowledged by European governments as a promising way to improve the work insertion of young people and, at the same time, contribute to general purposes of social and economic welfare. Particularly, social entrepreneurship is considered an emerging area of growth which provides the opportunity to make a difference in...

Consumers behaviour in e-commerce

The use of the Internet in the world has increased almost fivefold since the year 2000, and in 2011 almost one-third of the population had been using the Internet. Respectively the volumes of e-commerce increase rapidly in all countries. The purpose of the article is to carry out the analysis of consumers’ behaviour patterns in the electronic commerce highlighting the main...

Commercialization of innovations through internationalization: a systematic literature review

The main purpose of the article is to identify the state of knowledge between two multidimensional phenomena: commercialization of innovation and internationalization. In terms of research methods, a systematic literature review, based on the 91 publications located in reputable scientific databases (Scopus and Web of Science) between the years 2000–2017 and Rapid Automatic...

Firm performance and condensed corporate governance mechanism: evidence of Nigerian financial institutions

This paper extends the prior studies on corporate performance by empirically exploring the impact of overall corporate governance structure on firm performance.  To unveil the objective of this study, firstly corporate governance index is built using Principal Component Analysis with 6 (six) identified corporate governance mechanisms from prior studies and then examines its...

Dimensions of Green Office evidence from regency/city government offices in Central Java, Indonesia

Green office that is implemented within the environmental management system is one of the current concerns of environmentally friendly advocates. It is to do with the phenomenon of high environmental degradation and the low awareness of people about environmental-friendly behavior. Previous studies have indicated that the application of green office, particularly in government...

Does corporate social responsibility affect earnings management? Evidence from the Indonesian banking industry

This paper aims at examining the effect of corporate social responsibility on earnings management in the Indonesian banking industry. Using Indonesian publicly listed banking firms in the years of 2013–2015 as the sample, we generate 94 firm-year observations as the final sample. The results show that corporate social responsibility positively affects earnings management...

Responsible research and innovation – a conceptual contribution to theory and practice of technology management

The concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has become a popular term as a result of making it a cross-cutting theme for the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union. RRI may be understood as a process by which societal actors and innovators become mutually responsive to each other with a view to the acceptability, sustainability and societal...

Performance audit: a cross-country comparison of practices of selected supreme audit institutions

This study aims to present the conceptual framework of performance audits impact that support our investigation of the process of selection performance audit topics at Supreme audit institutions (SAIs) level. The results of the study include the technique for choosing performance audit topics used by the Lithuanian SAI and the SAI of the Netherlands. The data were gathered using...

New approach to the technological aspect of corporate sustainable development

Enterprises that seek for sustainable development should align economic interests with environmental and social requirements. It is not enough to take into account just these basics components. Technology plays a significant role in company activity. The aim of this article is to highlight the relationship between the dimensions characterising sustainability and to take a deeper...

Formation of organizational support for the management of the economic security of engineering enterprises: methodical and practical aspects

Difficult conditions of functioning and the severity of forecasting possible changes in the conduct of business stimulate a search for new ways to improve economic security management for engineering enterprises. The purpose of our article is to develop a methodological framework for the formation of organizational support for the management of economic security of an engineering...