scholarly journals Innovations in Agritourism: Evidence from a Region in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 4858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Roman ◽  
Monika Roman ◽  
Piotr Prus
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Hierarchical Clustering ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Clustering Method ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Central Statistics

The objective of the article is to present the study of agritourism innovativeness. The analysis covers agritourism farms in Poland. It is also essential to identify the factors affecting the process of implementing innovation in agritourism. The objective of the article is to formulate conclusions on the impact of innovations on the development of agritourism and the competitiveness of agritourism farms that can be used by representatives of various agritourism-supporting institutions and organizations. A diagnostic survey–study was conducted in 2018, applying a survey questionnaire with a sample of 81 self-employed agritourism farm owners. Ward’s hierarchical clustering method was applied to group the counties in terms of innovativeness. For this purpose, the data provided by the central statistics authority (GUS) and the authors’ own survey study were used. The study confirms, e.g., the key significance of innovation for the development of agritourism in the counties analyzed. Additionally, in the article there is developed an original farm’s competitive positioning index and gaining a competitive advantage on the agritourism services market, with three farms in Germany, France and Poland, respectively as an example.

scholarly journals Bullying and its Effective Factors in Adolescents Aged Between 10 and 18 Years Old: Evidence From a Southeastern Region in Iran, 2020

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samera Radmerikhi ◽  
Vahid Yazdi Feyzabadi ◽  
Milad Ahmadi ◽  
Seyyid Mohammad Keyhan Sajadi
Keyword(s):  
School Environment ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
School Level ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Iranian Version ◽  
Bullying Behavior ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background & Objective: Bullying behavior in adolescence as a global and a public health problem is of great interest in adolescence due to mental illness, violence, and tobacco addiction in adulthood. The present study aims to investigate the prevalence of both bullying and victim behaviors at all educational levels in Kerman. Methodology: This is a survey study, in which the study population are all students at three educational levels in Kerman. Multi-stage sampling method is used. To investigate the prevalence of bullying behavior, the Iranian version of the questionnaire is used, which is based on the Olweus bullying questionnaire. Results: The bullying rates at elementary, middle school, and high school are estimated at 25.1%, 17.8%, and 39.7%, respectively. Bullying rate is 7.13% among girls and 14.72% among boys. The results of our study show that the most important factors affecting bullying are gender, parental literacy, living with parents, type of school, economic and social status, educational level, and school size. Conclusion: Due to the impact of policies at different educational levels, policymakers should pay special attention to perform bullying control programs at the school level based on the school environment variables, and policies in this area should be designed, reviewed, and modified.

scholarly journals Organizational culture as an important factor of enterprise crisis management in the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-75
Author(s):  
Srđan Žikić ◽  
Milena Valjević
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Business Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic undoubtedly has serious socio-economic effects. The whole world is going through a unprecedented crisis with all the characteristics of unpredictability and difficult prevention. Today, there is practically no organization that has not been affected by this crisis. During a period of great uncertainty, it is very important that organizations properly understand the impact of this threat on internal and external stakeholders. Only companies that are able to manage the crisis effectively with an adequate organizational culture and leadership can maintain a competitive advantage. Accordingly, it is necessary to develop and support an ethically oriented organizational culture that will strongly support ethical standards. The proactivity and ethical approach of this type of organizational culture contributes to mitigating the negative effects of the crisis and provides adequate support to employees. Based on the above facts, the basic motive of the research was to determine the extent to which an ethically oriented organizational culture is supported in the company during a period of severe business crisis and uncertainty. The research is based on the answers collected by a standardized and structured survey questionnaire on a sample of 100 respondents.

scholarly journals ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND TOURISM ACTIVITIES IN BACKWATERS OF KERALA

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilda K. Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Consumer Preference ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Tourism Demand ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Study Objective ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Selling Point ◽  
The Impact

Kerala is one among the unique destinations of travel lovers. Its unique attraction makes Kerala as the most popular tourist destination in the world. Lakes, beaches, backwaters and houseboats are the unique selling point of Kerala’s tourism industry. Most of the travelers are enchanted by the backwaters. It becomes the most enjoyable and not-to-miss tourist products in Kerala for the holiday, leisure trips of domestic and international tourists.The main objective of this study is to identify factors that encourage tourists to visit backwater regions of Kerala and host community’s perception of the impact of tourism on the environmental sustainability of Backwaters of Kerala. In order to accomplish the study objectives, a survey questionnaire was developed for this research.The questionnaire included questions regarding tourists’ perception and attitude towards the backwater tourism, as well as consumer preference and the factors affecting tourism demand for backwater tourism. Descriptive statistics, T-test were conducted to accomplish study objective.

scholarly journals Warning Credit Risk for Vietnamese Commercial Banks - Case Study: Corporate Customer

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huan Nguyen Van ◽  
Hang Nguyen Thi ◽  
Thang Do Nang
Keyword(s):  
Credit Risk ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Individual Element ◽  
Credit Risk Management ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Bank Managers ◽  
The Impact

Stemming from the urgency of the actual situation, commercial banks need an effective credit risk management tool to limit risks. The authors went to survey, study and propose a set of factors affecting the ability of debt repayment of individual customers and conducting surveys. The topic uses data sets including 240 observation samples. Using the SPSS software to clean data and run the model based on Maddala's Binary logistics regression published in 1984 to find out the impact of each individual element of customers affecting their ability to repay such debts. Come on. The authors also specify the order of influence of each factor determining the ability to repay individual customers, thereby helping bank managers have a better visual view to make decisions for borrowing accurately, limiting risks.

scholarly journals Investigating the impact of organizational agility on the competitive advantage

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-157
Author(s):  
Jaser Abdulrazzaq Al-Nsour
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Likert Scale ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Organizational Agility ◽  
Telecommunication Sector ◽  
Sustained Competitive Advantage ◽  
Telecommunication Companies ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
The Impact

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of organizational agility on the competitive advantage in Jordanian telecommunication companies. Data were collected from 460 participants through a survey questionnaire. Likert scale was used to measure the concepts of organizational agility and competitive advantage. The findings of the study indicated that organizational agility is related positively and significantly to the company’s competitive advantage. Results of the study confirmed that organizational agility is increasingly becoming a critical factor in achieving sustained competitive advantage in such IT and the knowledge-intensive industry as the telecommunication sector. Telecommunication companies are advised to focus on developing organizational agility to acquire a competitive advantage.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting Performance Manager and Its Impact on Competitive Advantage: Studies Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in The Shoes Industry Mojokerto East Java Province

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 153-162
Author(s):  
Choirul Bashor ◽  
Chamdan Purnama
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Manager Performance ◽  
Small Medium Enterprises ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

AbstractThis study aims to describe and analyze the factors which affect the performance of managers consisting of entrepreneurial orientation and creativity factors and their impact on competitive advantage. Apart from that in this study also seeks to want to know how big the impact is directly entrepreneurial orientation and creativity to competitive advantage and influence indirectly through manager performance. The research was conducted on a sample of 170 manager’s small medium enterprises (SMEs) in the shoe industry Mojokerto East Java Province, sampling using random sampling techniques. Through the analysis of the results of structural equation modeling (SEM) found that the first-factor entrepreneurial orientation and creativity positive effect on manager performance. Second, the factors of entrepreneurial orientation and creativity direct positive effect on the competitive advantage. Third, through manager performance, factors of entrepreneurial orientation and creativity indirectly positively effects on the competitive advantage. Fourth, manager performance positively affects competitive advantage.

DAMPAK KEBIJAKAN FISKAL TERHADAP KINERJA SEKTOR PERTANIAN DI SULAWESI TENGGARA

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
La Ode Jabuddin ◽  
Ayub M Padangaran ◽  
Azhar Bafadal Bafadal
Keyword(s):  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Simultaneous Equations ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Land Area ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Historical Simulation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Direct Expenditure

This study aims to: (1) Knowing the dynamics of fiscal policy and the performance of the agricultural sector, (2) Analyze the factors that influence fiscal policy and the performance                   of the agricultural sector, and (3) Analyzing the impact of fiscal policy on the performance of the agricultural sector. The data used in this study were pooled 2005-2013 data in the aggregate. Econometric model the impact of fiscal policy on the performance of the agricultural sector is built in the form of simultaneous equations, consisting of 7 equations with 25 total variables in the model, 7 endogenous variables, 12 exogenous variables, and 6 variables lag. The model is estimated by 2SLS method SYSLIN procedures and historical simulation with SIMNLIN procedure.The results showed that: (1) The development of fiscal policy in Southeast Sulawesi from year to year tends to increase, (2) The performance of the agricultural sector from the aspect of GDP has decreased, from the aspect of labor is still consistent, in terms of investment to grow positively, and assign roles which means to decrease the number of poor people, (3) factors affecting fiscal policy is local revenues, equalization funds, other revenues, as well as the lag fiscal policy, (4) the factors that affect the performance of the agricultural sector from the aspect GDP is labor, direct expenditure and GDP lag; from the aspect of labor is the total labor force, investment, land area, direct expenditure, as well as the lag of labor; from the aspect of investment is influenced by GDP per capita, land area, interest rates and investment lag; as well as from the aspect of poor people, are affected by population, investments, direct expenditure and poverty lag, (5). Fiscal policy impact on the agricultural sector GDP increase, a decrease in the number of poor, declining agricultural laborers, and a decrease in the amount of investment in the agricultural sector.Keywords: Fiscal policy, the performance of the agricultural sector, the simultaneous equations

THE ACCESS TO GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL SUPPORT THROUGH LEGAL CHANNELS OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN FOUR ASIA PACIFIC COUNTRIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 298
Author(s):  
Muhamad Marwan
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Access To Finance ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this study is to determine the impact of networking on SME’s ability to access government financial support through legal channels in Asia Pacific. This study is quantitative in nature in which the data has been gathered from 281 employees and managers working in SMEs through survey questionnaire. The SEM technique was utilised for the purpose of analysing and testing the mediation effect. The study found that there is a partial mediation of government financial support through legal channels among the relationship between networking with officers and access to finance. This study is restricted to the SMEs operating in the region of Asia Pacific.

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