scholarly journals The Leading Traits of the Modern Corporate Leader: Comparing Survey Results from 2008 and 2018

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (23) ◽  
pp. 7926
Author(s):  
Robert Karaszewski ◽  
Rafał Drewniak
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Corporate Leaders ◽  
Leadership Impact ◽  
Global Corporations ◽  
Corporate Leader ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Corporate Business

This article deals with the evolution of leadership in the corporate business environment by presenting the results of comparative empirical studies conducted in 2008 and 2018. Based on an analysis of empirical research on the 2000 largest global corporations, obtained from the Forbes Global 2000, this work presents the changes that took place over a decade in the characteristics and competencies of contemporary leaders. The results allowed us to identify the desired characteristics, competencies, and character traits of contemporary leaders. In fact, the comparative analysis of these data showed the dynamics of change in the approach of global corporate leaders over the decade. The research results have important implications for the energy sector. Some of the companies participating in the study operate in the energy sector, therefore the opinions of these CEOs indicate significant determinants of modern leadership in this type of enterprise. When analysing the research results on the vision and scope of leadership impact in corporate business, we pointed, among other things, to the assessment of leadership traits, the evolution of leadership activities’ delegation, and the assessment of the importance of managers’ individual action areas and leadership factors.

Reading beyond the lines: themes and cultural values in corporate leaders’ communication

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-232
Author(s):  
Cindy Sing-Bik Ngai ◽  
Rita Gill Singh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Greater China ◽  
Corporate Leaders ◽  
Corporate Websites ◽  
Global Corporations ◽  
Corporate Leader ◽  
Categorization System

Purpose The unprecedented economic development and increase in the number of global corporations in the Greater China region, comprising the Chinese mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong, have led to more emphasis on corporate leader-stakeholder communication. Bilingual web-based messages posted on corporate websites, which aim to strategically cultivate positive relationships between leaders and stakeholders, have emerged as a primary mode of communication for Chinese corporations. However, a research study investigating the prominent themes and underlying cultural values depicted in leaders’ messages intended for different groups of stakeholders is lacking. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the themes and cultural values expressed through corporate leaders’ web-based messages in a non-western context. Design/methodology/approach Using an inductive approach, open coding and a categorization system, this study analyzed the web-based messages of leading corporations with WordSmith 6.0. Findings Six prominent themes in leaders’ communication were identified. These themes included, in order of importance: company development, operating philosophy, company profile, business environment, performance, and products and services. It was found that leaders strategically selected certain themes such as focusing on progress and the business environment but omitted others depending on how they wanted to strategically influence their stakeholders’ attitudes. Differences between the cultural values depicted in Chinese and the corresponding English messages could be attributed to leaders’ cultural adaptation of the messages intended for non-domestic stakeholders. Originality/value Since this study provides insights into the major themes preferred by leaders of corporations operating in Greater China, it will enable existing stakeholders to understand the main business focus of leaders and offer leaders more information about commonly accepted themes. These possibilities for enhanced knowledge on the part of stakeholders and business leaders, in turn, may potentially increase academic appreciation of the complexities involved in corporate communication. It also informs stakeholders about the variations in the values reflected in the English and Chinese messages of leaders, and, therefore, has a potential to offer value to academics and practitioners.

scholarly journals Courier service quality from the clients’ perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Gulc
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Client Expectations ◽  
Measurement Tools ◽  
Weight One ◽  
Service Quality Evaluation ◽  
Courier Service ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Measuring Scale

Abstract The aim of the study is a critical analysis of literature concerning the evaluation of courier service quality and verification if client expectations towards courier service quality change in time considering the perspective of future 5–10 years. Research methods include the theoretical analysis of scientific literature, CAWI survey and statistical analysis of obtained data. The literature overview has shown the lack of clearly defined evaluation constructs of courier service quality together with the criteria and weight, one universal commonly used measuring scale for evaluation of the service quality, diversification of methods and measurement tools for the various groups of stakeholders of courier service. Moreover, it can be concluded that the research concerning the courier service quality has not considered the problem of aging of quality indicators. Research results by the author have proved that the expectations of clients using courier service change in time, some of them are exposed to the aging process (price) while others become more important (for example tele-technologies, modern packaging, and technical facilities). Moreover, the survey results have shown that the customer opinions can be the source of interesting and innovative ideas for the development of courier service in future. The analysis of domestic and foreign literature allowed presenting the academia with an output concerning the evaluation of quality in the field of courier service. As a result, the theoretical and methodological gaps were revealed to expose potential fields for further research. The research results concerning different methods of service quality evaluation can be useful mainly for managers in courier enterprises. Moreover, the knowledge about changing expectations of clients allows adjusting courier proposals to customer needs to gain a competitive advantage in the global market.

scholarly journals Customer Needs Linked to Production Strategy and Firm’s Dynamic Capabilities

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-69
Author(s):  
Jari Koskinen ◽  
Daniel Sahebi
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Company Strategy ◽  
Customer Needs ◽  
Internal Customers ◽  
Production Strategy ◽  
Additional Value ◽  
Delivery Accuracy

Abstract This study identifies and analyzes the key factors of an efficient customer oriented production strategy. The paper supports the view that dynamic capabilities can be used successfully for improving company’s efficiency. This research is a case study research related to production strategy. In a case company, totally 31 interviews were made from 16 subsidiaries and 13 from end customers. The present paper focuses more on end customers’ than internal customers. Key findings can be identified as follows: effective information flow, flexibility, speed and responsiveness need more focus in the study of dynamic capabilities. Delivery accuracy is the key, while short delivery time is a competitive factor. This research is focused to power electronics business segment which is research limitation. To make wider conclusions, more empirical studies are needed. As a Practical implications, this research helps firms to improve their strategy process by understanding real customer needs. The research results bring additional value to the previous studies regarding company strategy, business environment, innovativeness and operational excellence.

scholarly journals Effects of enterprise sustainability on performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-23
Author(s):  
Violeta Domanović ◽  
Jasmina Bogićević ◽  
Bojan Krstić
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measurement ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business Rules ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Measurement Models ◽  
Long Run ◽  
New Business ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sustainability Report

Contemporary business environment imposes new business rules. The maximization of profit and shareholder value cannot be the only aim of an enterprise. Instead, enterprises are forced to maximize value of all stakeholders in order to survive in the long run. The issue of sustainability has become of crucial significance, and especially measurement and reporting on sustainability, as well as, its effects on financial performances, as still dominant ones in the contemporary business performance measurement models. Hence, the subject of the research is the enterprise sustainability in the contemporary business environment. The aim of the research is to stress the role and the significance of the sustainability in the process of improving the enterprise efficiency. The research results show that the enterprise sustainability has the positive implications on the business performances in the long run, as well as on the welfare of all stakeholders. In order to be more transparent, it is desirable for enterprises to create the sustainability report, in the integration with the traditional business report, which would give the complete overview of enterprise efficiency.

scholarly journals Agile Elastic Desktop Corporate Architecture for Big Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-31
Author(s):  
Valentin Kisimov ◽  
Dorina Kabakchieva ◽  
Aleksandar Naydenov ◽  
Kamelia Stefanova
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Big Data Processing ◽  
Online Business ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Corporate Architecture ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Corporate Business

AbstractNew challenges in the dynamically changing business environment require companies to experience digital transformation and more effective use of Big Data generated in their expanding online business activities. A possible solution for solving real business problems concerning Big Data resources is proposed in this paper. The defined Agile Elastic Desktop Corporate Architecture for Big Data is based on virtualizing the unused desktop resources and organizing them in order to serve the needs of Big Data processing, thus saving resources needed for additional infrastructure in an organization. The specific corporate business needs are analyzed within the developed R&D environment and, based on that, the unused desktop resources are customized and configured into required Big Data tools. The R&D environment of the proposed Agile Elastic Desktop Corporate Architecture for Big Data could be implemented on the available unused resources of hundreds desktops.

scholarly journals The disclosure in social reporting of energy sector: Experiences from Italy, the USA and China

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-287
Author(s):  
Alberto Romolini ◽  
Elena Gori ◽  
Silvia Fissi
Keyword(s):  
Energy Sector ◽  
Social Reporting ◽  
Quality Level ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Research Hypothesis ◽  
Chinese Companies ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Very High

Attention towards CSR issues is very high in Europe and America, but also in countries like China, which have little cultural tradition of it. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the quality and the trend of social reporting in Italy compared with in the USA and China by exploring the indicators disclosed within social reports. The study considered the energy and utilities sector by analysing the quality of social reporting through the indicators disclosed in 2009, 2010 and 2011 reports according to GRI guidelines. The research results show the quality level of social reporting in Italy is higher than that of the USA and China. However the research hypothesis was not confirmed as the quality does not show an increased trend. Chinese companies show opposite results as the quality levels dropping notably between 2009 and 2011.

Meta-analysis of the effects of mastery learning on students’ academic achievements in Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-555
Author(s):  
Maxwell Okwudili Ede ◽  
Uwakwe Okereke Igbokwe
Keyword(s):  
Effect Size ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Mastery Learning ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Academic Achievements ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
The Mean

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is fivefold: to identify the various results of previous empirical studies on the effect of mastery learning and students achievement in Nigeria schools; determine the effect size for each of the studies examined; determine the mean effect size of the overall studies examined; find out the mean effect size of studies that examined the effect of gender on academic achievement in mastery learning strategy; and determine the mean effect size of studies that examined the effect of school locations on academic achievements using mastery learning strategy.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopted survey research design using theex postfacto procedure. This study being meta-analytical used already existing data (research results). The sample of research reports included both published and unpublished research reports on the effects of mastery learning on students’ academic achievements in Nigeria between 1980 and 2016. The study adopted a purposive sampling technique in selecting the sample. This was to ensure that studies: were centered on mastery learning and students’ academic achievements; were carried out in Nigeria; appeared in published and unpublished literature between 1980 and 2016; have the statistical values of the research results of each independent variable to be considered (e.g.t-test values,χ2values and correlation values).FindingsThe study revealed that the mean effect size for all the studies was 0.536, indicating a positive mean effect size. The strategy, thus, has a significant effect on students’ achievements. School location, also, did not mediate in the use of the strategy.Practical implicationsBased on the findings of this study, the following recommendations were made: teachers should use this teaching strategy to enhance students’ achievements in difficult concepts in different subject areas. Since the result of this study has shown that the strategy has positive and large effect size, government and school proprietors should, with the collaboration of higher institutions concerned with teacher education, endeavor to organize seminars and workshops to serving teachers to enable them embrace effectively the principles and processes of implementing the strategy in the classroom. Since the result of this study has established the size of the effect of mastery learning strategy on the academic achievements, subsequent researchers should no longer direct their efforts in determining its effects on academic achievements but on the ways of improving the use of the strategy in teaching at all levels of education.Originality/valueAvailable literature has shown that though most previous research findings revealed that mastery learning approach has an effect on academic achievements of students, no efforts have been made toward resolving the inconsistencies of those results by integrating them and establishing the extent of the effect of the strategy on academic achievements. This study, therefore, was designed to fill these gaps created by the non-existence of integrated studies on effects of mastery learning and academic achievements of students in Nigerian schools.

Forecasting GDP Growth Considering Crisis Shocks Based on Business Survey Results

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 80-95
Author(s):  
L. A. Kitrar ◽  
T. M. Lipkind ◽  
N. A. Usov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Gdp Growth ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Macroeconomic Information ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Business Survey

The article analyzes the short-term effects of aggregate economic sentiment on the expected GDP growth in Russia based on the results of regular large-scale surveys of business activity of the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) for the period 1998–2021. The main purpose of the study is to substantiate the predictive value of the opinions of economic agents in expanding macroeconomic information, especially during crisis periods. The authors aggregate quarterly information for the analyzed period on 18 indicators of surveys with a sample of about 24,000 organizations in basic kinds of economic activity and 5,000 consumers in all Russian regions in a composite economic sentiment indicator (ESI). Then, a statistical analysis of the time series of ESI and GDP growth is carried out, including the identifcation of the integrability order with testing for stationarity and the presence of causality between indicators. The authors prove the possibility of using a vector autoregression (VAR) model with dummy variables to measure the investigated relationship.The forecasting results reflect the interconnection of two time series with the response in the dynamics of the estimated variable (GDP growth) to the reaction of the business environment and the simulation of fluctuations in the ESI dynamics, which are set by the authors and correspond to the expected economic sentiments amid possible crisis changes. Probabilistic estimates of GDP growth until mid-2022 are based on scenario impulses in the ESI dynamics at the 3rd quarter of 2021, which differ in the amplitude and duration of their impact on economic growth, primarily due to coronavirus shocks. According to the results, under all scenarios for the development of business trends introduced by the authors, national economic growth can exceed by the middle of 2022 the pre-pandemic level of the 4th quarter of 2019 (102,9%).

Culinaronyms in formatting linguocultural competence in teaching Russian as a foreign language

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Ngoc Son Phan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Linguistic Units ◽  
Research Show

Abstract Linguocultural approach is the new teaching direction in teaching Russian as a foreign language (RFL). Based on this approach, students are aimed to form a linguocultural competence. Studying scientific research show that there is a lot of linguistic units that are suitable to help students in forming their linguocultural competence. The purpose of the research is to apply the topic “Russian culinaronyms” (known as the name of Russian food) in the formation of the linguocultural competence of Vietnamese students who are learning Russian as a foreign language. The research was conducted by surveying and interviewing 26 Russian teachers in Vietnam by verifying the applicability of theory and practice of the topic “Russian culinaronyms”. The research results show that the teachers think that the application of this food topic in the formation of their linguocultural competence is appropriate with high survey results. Furthermore, it reveals the linguistic and cultural dimensions from Russian culinaronyms which can be used to form a linguocultural competence for Vietnamese students. The topic “Russian culinaronyms” can be applied in extracurricular sessions for language specialized students.

A Model for Improving the Adoption of Sustainability in the Context of Globalization and Innovation

2012 ◽  
pp. 500-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Rainey
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Leading Change ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Strategic Innovation ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Regional Markets ◽  
Global Corporations

This chapter presents the foundations of a conceptual model for connecting the key elements necessary for corporations to adopt sustainability in the context of the global economy and strategic innovation. While there are numerous theories and practical methods for managing in a national or even regional markets, most of them lack the sophistication necessary for leading change in a global business environment. With the advent of globalization, the complexities of doing business on a global basis have increased dramatically over the last two decades. While sustainability involves many perspectives, strategies, actions, and management constructs, the chapter focuses on how global corporations employ strategic innovations in response to the driving forces in the global economy and how they can improve their level of management sophistication in a turbulent business environment. The model incorporates the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development in creating the solutions, systems and structures for doing business in the global economy. It focuses on strategic innovations that provide more positive aspects and fewer negative ones. Sustainability and sustainable development are based on proactive strategies and actions that exceed expectations and outperform peers and competitors alike. Strategic innovations are dramatic changes that have the potential to create dramatic new solutions that create exceptional value and eliminate or reduce negative effects and impacts. Strategic innovations include radical technological innovations, business model innovations, product developments, and organizational developments that are game changers.

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