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Purpose: The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the relations between CSR activities and competitive advantages. it discusses how companies undertake CSR activities and what benefits can be gained because of these activities. Methodology/approach: The paper is based on the Polpharma' s single case study. The narrative literature review was applied to build up the theoretical foundation for the empirical study. Findings: CSR activities undertaken by companies can be a source of many benefits, which may translate into gaining competitive advantages. The analysis of the case of Polpharma shows positive outcomes of undertaking CSR activities related to increase in customer trust to the company and its competitive position. Originality/value: CSR issues are a relatively popular topic of research in the field of management, but they are not often considered from the strategic point of view as presented in this article. Paper type: case study.

The research objective of the article: The aim of the paper is to present the challenges and opportunities of Initial Coin Offering (ICO) procedure (sometimes appearing in literature and official documents as the Initial Token Offering (ITO)) from the point of view of a company as well as verify the hypothesis about ICO as a cheap form of capital rising that is often presented in websites dedicated to ICO. There are enumerated the differences and similarities to the Initial Public Offering and possible advantages over other methods of capital rising. The paper points out the most important barriers to the use of ICO. The research method applied: As there is shortage of available research papers and literature related to the topic that are focused on financial aspects such as comparison between ICO and other methods of capital rising, there was conducted the analysis of reliable internet sources and a case study method of Ethereum-the first company that applied the Initial Coin Offering procedure. The mentioned research method has its limits, as it is necessary to verify received information. That is the reason why only professional websites dedicated to the topic were used. The outcome of the research (considerations, analyses), main conclusion(s): the Initial Coin Offering procedure is recognised as a very controversial topic. It is clearly visible that ICO has many advantages over traditional forms of rising capital for the company, but, so far, ambiguous legal status, cost level and high risk of scams and other possible abuses make it difficult to become widely applied by newly created companies.

The dynamic development of the virtual currencies' market may pose new challenges and open up further possibilities for entrepreneurships. The aim of this paper is to present some applications of virtual currencies in companies as well as potential benefits and threats of cryptocurrencies. In the study there have been used the literature on the subject as well as available Internet sources. After a brief introduction to the idea of virtual currencies, there have been presented such areas of use as business promotion, payments and capital raising.