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Determinants of the Performance of Countries’ Innovation Ecosystems
The pandemic marked the beginning of a succession of events on a global scale (not the least of which is a greater concern for the environment and for quality of life/distance work) with a major impact on the economy. Innovation plays a key role in meeting the challenges of the future, but despite investment in innovation, global economic growth has fallen short of the expected performance. it is important to note that innovations depend to a large extent on a suitable market environment (i.e., one conducive to innovation) and that improving a country’s capacity for innovation improves companies’ capacity for innovation. It is, therefore, essential to understand which factors most influence innovation performance, with the aim of directing policies and investment towards the areas with the greatest impact on results.
  • 59
  • 23 Feb 2024
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Corporate Governance and International Orientation on Firm Performance
Corporate governance is concerned with bringing the interests of investors/owners and managers in line and ensuring that firms are run for the benefit of investors. International Orientation refers to one’s capacity to function effectively in a highly complex business environment across national boundaries. Corporate governance is believed to be a major driver for possible future growth among Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (SMEs) locally and internationally.
  • 57
  • 20 Feb 2024
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Employees’ Readiness for a Career Shift
Today’s organizations are highly responsive to external changes, which they also demand from their employees. All employees need competencies to respond to Industry 4.0, the green business economy, and post-COVID-19 work circumstances and to manage sustainable careers. One way of doing so is to take active part in reskilling projects and be ready for a career shift, which researchers believe can be foreseen in people’s devotion to sustainable careers and can ensure the sustainability of the whole reskilling project.
  • 73
  • 18 Feb 2024
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Cultural Diversity and Conflict in Family Businesses
Family firms play a key role in the economic growth and employment of any country. Several researchers argued that culture of family businesses plays an important role in determining whether the firm continues successfully beyond the first generation. Involvement of the family in business is often portrayed both as a special feature of the family business and as an important source of conflict in these businesses.
  • 128
  • 08 Feb 2024
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Knowledge Management in Serbian SMEs
In today’s dynamic business landscape, the strategic integration of knowledge management (KM) in Serbian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) stands as a transformative force, reshaping the internal dynamics and external market performance of a company.
  • 69
  • 05 Feb 2024
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Greenwashing Behavior in Hotels Industry
Greenwashing has become a pervasive phenomenon in the tourism and hospitality sector, posing significant challenges and potential reputational damage to green hotels.
  • 121
  • 02 Feb 2024
Topic Review
Human Capital Management and Business Performance
Human capital (HC) is a key factor of the performance and competitiveness of enterprises. HC as an element of intellectual capital, efficiency of invested capital and efficiency of human capital positively affect firms' return on equity (ROE) and business performance.
  • 79
  • 25 Jan 2024
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Inter-Professional Communication in Complex IT Project Teams
Organizational IT projects are becoming more complex, not only because of the time-to-market pressure and increased complexity of the specific IT problems they have to solve, but also because of the diversity of their team members. Besides cultural (language) diversity in the global context, there are two additional types of diversity: diversity of organization management (linked to project versus organization tensions), which is common to all organizational projects, and the professional diversity in particular, proper to IT projects. Amid all advantages of varied standpoints, the diversity might come with seeds of misunderstandings in communication, tensions, and even latent conflicts, which (if not timely and properly addressed) may lead to escalating conflicts.
  • 116
  • 24 Jan 2024
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A Psychology of Sustainable Career Development
Sustainable career development is a great priority for organizations, governments and individuals alike. Facing the grand challenges of our global world, careers and their development have to be re-designed to incorporate more sustainable ways of living and working.
  • 75
  • 24 Jan 2024
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Social Entrepreneurship and Poverty Alleviation for Sustainable Development
The increasing social and environmental challenges, particularly poverty, have brought social entrepreneurship, a highly researched domain, to the attention of academicians. It has emerged as a critical issue in the context of economic development and societal well-being.
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  • 23 Jan 2024
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