Mariusz Soltanifar, Mathew Hughes, Lutz Gocke – Digital Entrepreneurship, Impact on Business and Society (2021, Springer International Publishing)

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Ranković ◽  
Milena P. Ilić
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Business World ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
The World ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Digital Entrepreneurship

Abstract The book by Mariusz Soltanifar, Mathew Hughes, and Lutz Göcke entitled “Digital Entrepreneurship Impact on Business and Society” (Soltanifar, M., M. Hughes, and L. Göcke. 2021. Digital Entrepreneurship Impact on Business and Society. Charm: Springer International Publishing; Springer) published by Springer International Publishing demonstrates the global challenges that companies and economies face related to digital entrepreneurship. The book emphasizes the impact that digital entrepreneurial activities have on business and society in a way that shapes the world business environment in the present time, and will continue to the same in the future. The book provides the reader with an overview of the processes, means, and challenges that are transforming the business world, giving the possible opportunities to companies and citizens, but also threats as well that also shape their everyday life and society as a whole.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurship facilitators and their role in poverty alleviation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osama Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The Impact

Poverty is one of the main issues faced by countries across the world. Over the last three decades, governments and international organizations such as the World Bank, the IMF, etc. have been trying to reduce poverty. Despite this, today almost 2.5 billion people are still living in poverty. Entrepreneurship is often seen as a way to reduce poverty. Moreover, the role of entrepreneurship facilitators is very important in creating a suitable business environment for entrepreneurs which increases the capacity of entrepreneurial activities. The purpose of this thesis is to provide an insight into how entrepreneurial activity and entrepreneurship facilitators (Government, Incubators, and Financial Institutions) help in improving the business environment in all countries and hence in poverty alleviation, examining the impact in case of high-income, high medium-income, medium-income, low-income countries and, as a result, reduce poverty. To investigate this, the Human Development Index (HDI) has been used to measure poverty. Secondary data for Entrepreneurship (Entrepreneurial Facilitators, Entrepreneurial Activities, and Economic Factors) and Poverty (HDI)) from the period of 2005 to 2016 are used for high-income countries, high medium-income countries, medium-income countries and low-income countries. The study has found that there is a positive and significant relationship between entrepreneurial activity and the changes in Human Development Index (HDI) in all countries studied over the 12 years period. It also finds that the presence of good entrepreneurial facilitators improves the capacity of entrepreneurial activity which reduces poverty as measured by the HDI. It adds to the body of knowledge by using HDI as a new tool to analyze the impact of entrepreneurial activity country wise. It also suggests that governments need to make better business related regulations which will motivate entrepreneurs and create ease of business doing. Finally it suggests that trade openness bring foreign investments in a country which create employment for people.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurship facilitators and their role in poverty alleviation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osama Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The Impact

Poverty is one of the main issues faced by countries across the world. Over the last three decades, governments and international organizations such as the World Bank, the IMF, etc. have been trying to reduce poverty. Despite this, today almost 2.5 billion people are still living in poverty. Entrepreneurship is often seen as a way to reduce poverty. Moreover, the role of entrepreneurship facilitators is very important in creating a suitable business environment for entrepreneurs which increases the capacity of entrepreneurial activities. The purpose of this thesis is to provide an insight into how entrepreneurial activity and entrepreneurship facilitators (Government, Incubators, and Financial Institutions) help in improving the business environment in all countries and hence in poverty alleviation, examining the impact in case of high-income, high medium-income, medium-income, low-income countries and, as a result, reduce poverty. To investigate this, the Human Development Index (HDI) has been used to measure poverty. Secondary data for Entrepreneurship (Entrepreneurial Facilitators, Entrepreneurial Activities, and Economic Factors) and Poverty (HDI)) from the period of 2005 to 2016 are used for high-income countries, high medium-income countries, medium-income countries and low-income countries. The study has found that there is a positive and significant relationship between entrepreneurial activity and the changes in Human Development Index (HDI) in all countries studied over the 12 years period. It also finds that the presence of good entrepreneurial facilitators improves the capacity of entrepreneurial activity which reduces poverty as measured by the HDI. It adds to the body of knowledge by using HDI as a new tool to analyze the impact of entrepreneurial activity country wise. It also suggests that governments need to make better business related regulations which will motivate entrepreneurs and create ease of business doing. Finally it suggests that trade openness bring foreign investments in a country which create employment for people.

The impact of information technology and communication systems on the agility of supply chain management systems

Kybernetes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (10) ◽  
pp. 2217-2236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roya Dehgani ◽  
Nima Jafari Navimipour
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Business World ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe impact of information technology (IT) on the agility of supply chain management (SCM) systems is very noticeable in the business world nowadays. Competition and constant changes, including product/technological innovations, decreasing product lifestyles and product proliferation, create pressure that affects the business environment. Organizations are required for answering the changes in the market to gain a competitive advantage and business success. The organizations are able to answer to unexpected market changes through supply chain market, and these changes are converted to business opportunities. Using IT to achieve the agility of SCM is one of the important factors to help the organizations. Therefore, the adoption of IT and its efficient implementation can improve the cooperation between supply chain agility through the rapid transfer, the distribution of accurate information and the use of information. This paper aims to investigate the impact of IT on the agility of SCM.Design/methodology/approachA total of 120 employees of the Golasal firm are involved in collecting data using a questionnaire. Measurements were performed in all questionnaires using a five-point Likert scale. The causal model is evaluated by structural equationmodeling technique, which is used to examine the reliability and validity of the model.FindingsThe results have shown that IT has positive influences on the agility of SCM systems. In addition, the obtained results have shown that four variables, namely, IT skills and knowledge, IT-based systems integration, IT infrastructure and design of global position system and geographic information systems, affect the agility of SCM systems.Originality/valueIn this paper, the agility of SCM systems is pointed out and the approach to resolve the problem is applied into a practical example. The presented model provides a complete framework to examine the impact of IT on the agility of SCM systems.

scholarly journals THE PROFITABILITY DETERMINANTS OF THE GLOBAL PHARMACEUTICAL & BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPANIES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-54
Author(s):  
Boris Tušek ◽  
◽  
Ana Ježovita ◽  
Petra Halar
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Stress Test ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Sustainable Operations ◽  
The World ◽  
Biotechnology Companies ◽  
The Impact

In today's chaotic, complex, unpredictable, and extremely dynamic business environment, it is more than ever essential to operate in a way that will ensure sustainable operations and demand for companies’ goods or services. Employing contemporary corporate governance, advanced information technology, and adequate financial management are significant foundations for sustaining high profitability and adequate financial stability as crucial objectives that ensure adding value for companies' owners. Covid-19 is an excellent stress test for every entity, as for micro-companies, so for the largest multinational corporations. Nowadays, in the era of the world Covid-19 pandemic, companies challenge to maintain business operations and going concern assumption. However, in every crisis or adverse situation, some companies take enormous benefits of it. Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies can be characterized as the major players during this last, still actual crisis. Their role can be observed from two angles, first as a provider of necessary drugs for curing Covid-19 patients and from the other side, as a developer of effective and efficient vaccine which will ‘save the world’ and brought us back to the ‘old normal’. This paper seeks to investigate financial determinants that are the most significant for the profitability of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The question is how those companies coped with the Covid-19 crisis, and what is the impact on their profitability in 2020 compared to previous operating years? Another question is how is the development of the vaccine financed and are R&D expenses significantly increased in 2020? Therefore, the objective of the paper is to investigate the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the profitability of global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The research covers 52 entities on the global level for the period from 2010 to 2020. Data will be analysed by applying adequate panel data analysis and moderator regression analysis. Keywords: profitability ratios, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, Covid-19

scholarly journals A qualitative study of old patients’ experiences of the quality of the health services in hospital and 30 days after hospitalization

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingvild Lilleheie ◽  
Jonas Debesay ◽  
Asta Bye ◽  
Astrid Bergland
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Healthcare Quality ◽  
World Health ◽  
Old Patients ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background: The number of people aged 80 years and above is projected to triple over the next 30 years. People in this age group normally have at least two chronic conditions. The impact of multimorbidity is often significantly greater than expected from the sum of the effects of each condition. The World Health Organization has indicated that healthcare systems must prepare for a change in the focus of clinical care for older people. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines healthcare quality as care that is effective, efficient, integrated, patient centered, equitable and safe. The degree to which healthcare quality can be defined as acceptable is determined by services’ ability to meet the needs of users and adapt to patients’ expectations and perceptions.Method: We took a phenomenological perspective to explore older patients’ subjective experiences and conducted semistructured individual interviews. Eighteen patients (aged from 82 to 100 years) were interviewed twice after discharge from hospital. The interview transcriptions were analyzed thematically.Results: The patients found their meetings with the health service to be complex and demanding. They reported attempting to restore a sense of security and meaning in everyday life, balancing their own needs against external requirements. Five overarching themes emerged from the interviews: hospital stay and the person behind the diagnosis, poor communication and coordination, life after discharge, relationship with their next of kin, and organizational and systemic determinants.Conclusion: According to the WHO, to deliver quality healthcare, services must include all six of the dimensions listed above. Our findings show that they do not. Healthcare focused on measurable values and biomedical inquiries. Few opportunities for participation, scant information and suboptimal care coordination left the patients with a feeling of being in limbo, where they struggled to find balance in their everyday life. Further work must be done to ensure that integrated services are provided without a financial burden, centered on the needs and rights of older people.

scholarly journals Impacto en la ética de las empresas

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlene Lozano Romero ◽  
Dirce Alethia García García
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
Business World ◽  
Economic Entity ◽  
Economic Area ◽  
Toma De Decisiones ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

  RESUMEN Se desea emitir una opinión basada en el impacto que tiene la ética en las empresas. Y en el papel que juega en el actuar de cada día. La ética profesional que deben tener aquellos que desempeñan cualquier función en un ente económico. Y el impacto que puede ocasionar la falta de ética en el ámbito empresarial. Se emplea un procedimiento de metodología cualitativa; basándose en los aspectos observables que se presentan en el entorno empresarial; haciendo énfasis en el desempeño que realiza el profesional al momento de realizar su trabajo. Y la manera en la que debe manejarse la administración de cualquier empresa para la toma de decisiones, las cuales, deben ser las más idóneas para tener finanzas sanas. Así mismo, un procedimiento de metodología descriptiva en la cual se puntualizan las características que existen en ciertas áreas económicas de la población; a fin de poder conocer los puntos de riesgo o aquellas acciones que generan problemas por falta de ética en el ámbito económico. Se analizaron diferentes áreas económicas del sector empresarial, los puntos de mayor preocupación a causa de factores ocasionados por falta de ética. Y sugerencias del como poder mejorar la situación que se está presentando en cada área económica.  ABSTRACT It is desired to issue an opinion based on the impact that ethics has on companies. And in the role he plays in the daily actions. The professional ethics that should have those who perform any function in an economic entity. And the impact that the lack of ethics in the business world can cause. A qualitative methodology procedure is used; based on the observable aspects that appear in the business environment; emphasizing the performance performed by the professional at the time of performing their work. And the way in which the management of any company should be managed for making decisions, which should be the most suitable to have healthy finances. Likewise, a descriptive methodology procedure in which the characteristics that exist in certain economic areas of the population are specified; In order to know the risk points or those actions that generate problems due to lack of ethics in the economic field. Different economic areas of the business sector were analyzed, the points of greatest concern due to factors caused by lack of ethics. And suggestions of how to improve the situation that is occurring in each economic area. KEYWORDS: Ethics; Company; Impact; Trust; Values.

scholarly journals Bacteria serve up a tasty solution to the global plastic problem

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna C. Sadler ◽  
Stephen Wallace ◽  
Marie-Anne Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Water Bottle ◽  
Metabolic Power ◽  
Mount Everest ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
The World ◽  
Single Use ◽  
Main Component ◽  
Insatiable Appetite

Rattling around on a cold, damp Edinburgh street, a plastic water bottle is a stark reminder of one of the greatest environmental crises facing our planet. In little under 100 years a growing tsunami of plastic waste has contaminated not just our streets but nearly every corner of the natural world – from Mount Everest to the deepest oceans. But this plastic bottle provided the inspiration that could yet turn the tide. Diverted from landfill to the laboratory the bottle soon grabbed the attention of the world’s media by undergoing a remarkable transformation from plastic into vanillin – the main component of vanilla and one of the most in-demand spices in the world. This seemingly impossible act of alchemy was made possible by harnessing the metabolic power of bacteria. Its success has enormous implications. Not only could it meet our insatiable appetite for this rare flavouring, but it could radically change the way we tackle another addiction – the endless stream of single-use and disposable plastics that have become part of everyday life. Yet this only scratches the surface of the potential of this approach. By coaxing microbes to behave as eco-friendly factories that produce useful materials, we could tackle many other global challenges.

ASSESSMENT OF BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT PERCEPTION UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF COVID-19: THE CASE OF LATVIA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andra Zvirbule ◽  
Gunta Grinberga-Zalite ◽  
Aina Muska
Keyword(s):  
Business Environment ◽  
Objective Data ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Environment Changes ◽  
Logical Construction ◽  
The World ◽  
Regional Location ◽  
Data Grouping ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Business Sectors

Not only macroeconomic growth scenarios and forecasts but also business environment assessments and development forecasts have changed as a result of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Many of the forecasts are based on objective data on the performance of economic sectors; however, some of them are based on business perceptions or business sentiment assessments. There is no doubt that these perceptions and business sentiment assessments differ within business sectors and according to size of the company, regional location and type of business. The aim of the research is to identify and provide an assessment of the business environment development perceptions in the COVID-19 situation in Latvia and compare them with business sentiment assessments from other countries. Specific tasks of the research: to collect information on business environment changes in Latvia in the COVID-19 situation; to compile business perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 on the business environment in the world and in Latvia; to identify the perceptions of the business environment in the most important business sectors in Latvia. Methods: monographic, data grouping, logical construction and mathematical and statistical analysis. The research identified business environment changes in business sectors in Latvia under COVID-19’s influence and business perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 on the business environment for the next 6 months. Based on the research, the authors have drawn conclusions about the future development of the business environment and have identified the sectors that will be negatively affected by the COVID-19 crisis in the coming months.

scholarly journals When all doors close: Implications of COVID-19 for cosmopolitan entrepreneurs

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (8) ◽  
pp. 711-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niina Nummela ◽  
Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki ◽  
Riikka Harikkala-Laihinen ◽  
Johanna Raitis
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Core Values ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shed Light

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic is an external shock that has disrupted the foundations of everyday life. For cosmopolitan entrepreneurs, the impact is even more decisive as it confronts their core values and jeopardises their identities, ways of working and the lifestyles they cherish. Cosmopolitans are individuals who identify themselves as citizens of the world and voluntarily move from country to country in pursuit of self-fulfilment in both life and work. Cosmopolitan entrepreneurs are future-oriented and open to the world and the opportunities it may provide. Beyond securing, maintaining and improving their professional and/or economic positions, their mobility is an elementary part of the cosmopolitan life itself, something they find attractive, interesting and stimulating. Thus, a cosmopolitan entrepreneur’s business is often non-location-bound to enable continued mobility. With our interview-based research, we shed light on how COVID-19 has changed the lives of Finnish-born cosmopolitan entrepreneurs, discussing what they feel about the changes and how they see their future.

scholarly journals Women Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Business Development: Key Findings from a SWOT–AHP Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5298
Author(s):  
Daniel Stefan ◽  
Valentina Vasile ◽  
Anca Oltean ◽  
Calin-Adrian Comes ◽  
Anamari-Beatrice Stefan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Women Entrepreneurship ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The Impact

This study highlights the perception of women entrepreneurs in Romania regarding specific drivers for a sustainable business model. This study uses a SWOT–AHP method to assess the importance of different factors that enforce or create barriers for the success in women entrepreneurial activities. SWOT analysis was conducted based on an extended literature review. An external expert in risk analysis assessed the importance of the SWOT analysis’ four dimensions—criteria. An AHP survey of 10 women entrepreneurs was conducted to evaluate the impact of each identified factor in sustaining or discouraging the success of their sustainable business model (SBM). The main results of the study present practical implications useful for designing a gender-balanced business environment. In the final part, the paper discusses women’s preference for the sustainable business model, the perceived importance of gender-related stereotypes for the development of sustainable business models, and the relevance of the new digital economy trend to Romanian women entrepreneurship.

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