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Ethical Behavior and Organizational Innovation: Analysis of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Latvia
2018
Abstract Innovations can provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) a significant competitive advantage considering the ambiguous business environment. SMEs may face lower capacity and more constrained funding for long-term investments, however, understanding innovation in a broader sense and looking into organizational structures, behaviors and processes, SMEs have an opportunity to become more competitive. This study analyzes the impact of ethical behavior as a part of an organizational culture on organizational innovation performance in SMEs. Six hundred SMEs in Latvia were surveyed to assess whether employees follow the principles of business ethics in their work and what is the …
Intercultural Workplace Communication
2017
The workplace is a highly meaningful context for intercultural communication where persons who come from different countries, identify with different ethnic groups or speak different languages get to collaborate and develop relationships with one another. Needless to say, interpersonal communication in the workplace has always been a primary area of interest for intercultural communication research. Early scholarship focused on the preparation of U.S. military personnel, diplomats, business people, and missionaries for overseas assignments. However, the increasing pluralization of the social landscape has bolstered research endeavors. These days, the scope of intercultural workplace communi…
The social entrepreneur: Analysis of social awareness
2015
Resumen Los emprendedores sociales están ganando cierto reconocimiento como uno de los agentes de cambio social más importantes. Aun así, poco se conoce sobre sus motivaciones y el proceso a través del cual sus ideas se conciben y desarrollan. En este trabajo se analiza el proceso de descubrimiento de oportunidades en el caso de los emprendedores sociales, partiendo de la teoría del descubrimiento y del concepto de alerta emprendedora que, en este caso, rebautizamos como alerta social. Para ello se estudia el papel de la formación y la experiencia previa del emprendedor, la cercanía a otros emprendedores y la cercanía al problema social como variables relacionadas con la alerta social. Dada…
New Challenges in Economic and Business Development – 2021: Post-Crisis Economy: PROCEEDINGS; (13th International Scientific Conference, May 14, 2021…
2021
This year's conference was devoted to the challenges related to the post-crisis economic development. Crisis is often seen as an opportunity, stimulating change of traditional approaches and often leading to creation of new systems. The objective of the conference is to provide a platform/opportunity for scholars, researchers and professionals from different disciplinary backgrounds to meet, exchange ideas, findings, research results and discuss challenges and prospects for economic and business development.
The challenges for the profession of accountant in the changing global economic environment
2019
Nowadays we observe dynamic growth in the global economic environment and rapid changes in information and communication technologies. These factors have a strong impact, they cause changes in the expectations of parties involved and greatly impact the conditions and competencies of any profession. Technological progress and the importance of behavioral competencies, both ethically and legally, exercising professional judgment and emotional intelligence will bring many challenges and opportunities for those who have chosen the profession of an accountant. The professional organizations of accountants are organizing different workshops and open discussions where participants exchange their e…
Entrepreneurship Education as Learning to Form Identities — Cross-Cultural Perspective
2015
[Introduction] In this study we focus on entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurs’ professional identity and related cross-cultural issues [1]. Today’s global business requires professional identities that are flexible and broad-mind, and this is why teaching should recognize these challenges. There is a need for new skills such as generalist skills, social skills and abilities for creating and sustaining new, complex trust-based business networks. We believe entrepreneurship education can promote such abilities. The entrepreneurs-to-be also need ethical rules and codes as they build values and ethical understanding, all rooted in identity. Recently, researchers such as Rae [4] have stress…
Loyal Employees. A Key Factor in the Success of a Company
2015
The most important asset of any business is its employees. Given this fact, normally, every business should have a solid plan to make sure that its employees are satisfied professionally and are loyal to the company. Unfortunately, this is usually not the case. Many companies believe that if they have an excellent product or service that generates high incomes and employees should be content. Generally, employers try to guarantee that its employees will not leave by offering them different benefits, trainings and great compensation. But is that enough to ensure loyalty among staff members? According to different statistics: each year the average company loses 20-50% of its employee base, re…
Theories on Teaching & Training in Ethics
2008
The paper examines the education and training of adults in ethics. It applies to courses at universities and colleges as well as in the work place. The paper explores the evidence on our ability to strengthen moral behaviour through courses on ethics, finds it to be weak, so starts with the assumption that we cannot teach people to be ethical. The paper asks therefore what the objectives of a course could be and how best to achieve them. It examines the different theories in the literature, eventually settling on four objectives: increasing moral cognition; teaching a widening and strengthening of ethical practices; adopting teaching approaches that maximise learning impact, and developing …
Ethically minded consumer behavior, retailers’ commitment to sustainable development, and store equity in hypermarkets
2020
The present paper analyzed the influence of ethically minded consumer behavior on retailer&rsquo
Consumer Ethics Research: Reframing the Debate about Consumption for Good
2008
Consumer ethics is an underdeveloped specialism of business and marketing ethics, within which most publications have focused on bad rather than on good ethics, and on consumer dishonesty rather than on consumer idealism or consumer responsibility. This conceptual paper explores the latter perspective, and examines how we can seek to understand “consumer social responsibility” from perspectives such as consumer citizenship, political consumerism and consumer decision making. Much of the literature dealing with positive ethical dimensions of consumer behavior is limited to augmentations of conventional models of consumer behavior and the decisions rules that operate within them. This paper a…