The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether public health entrepreneurship principles implementation in the public health sector are alternative ways of promoting an immediate improvement of healthcare infrastructure. To contribute to the literature on the impact of public health entrepreneurship on public healthcare infrastructure, we estimate two empirical models, with the first model having institutions and the second model having public healthcare policies as the dependent variable. Our empirical analysis is based on the WHO international health regulation data for all WHO member countries (in order to achieve a balanced panel, we decided to retain 192 of them), covering the period from 2010 through to 2019. The main results obtained using a Poisson panel regression indicate a positive relationship between employing more entrepreneurship within public healthcare and the quality of public healthcare infrastructure represented through institutions and policies. This study produces several contributions to the stream of research on public health entrepreneurship. First, it makes a theoretical contribution in the way that it fills the lacking literature on the relationship between entrepreneurship within the public health sector and efficiency of country-specific public healthcare infrastructure. Second, it offers an empirical quantitative analysis of entrepreneurship that is generally lacking. Concerning policy implications, the third contribution of this paper is the provision of evidence showing alternative ways to improve healthcare infrastructure other than traditionally observed investments in physical infrastructure.

The relationship between firms’ exports and increases in productivity is generally regarded as positive. While the causal effects of process innovation are straightforward and positive, the effect of product innovation on productivity is ambiguous. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on a joint effect that innovation and exports have on firms’ productivity. In our attempt to fill this gap, we explore individual and joint effects of innovation and exports on productivity by employing cross-sectional firm-level data. We use the sixth wave of the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS VI: 2018–2020) conducted by the EBRD and the World Bank. Using a stratified random sampling, the data was collected from interviews with representatives of randomly chosen firms from 32 countries. The overall results suggest that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters, while the impact of innovation is more heterogeneous. Whereas EU and high-income countries reap the productivity benefits, this effect is absent in other regions and countries with medium and low-income levels. Finally, our results indicate the absence of a joint effect of innovation and exports on productivity, across different geographical regions and countries of different income levels.

Društvena odgovornost i ekološki menadžment predmet su rasprave brojih teoretičara i kritičara. Sa jedne strane, društvena odgovornost se javlja kao zakonska i moralna obaveza preduzeća, čije nepoštovanje, preduzeću vodi ka zakonskim i tržišnim sankcijama. Sa druge strane postoje argumenti koji dovode u konflikt ekonomske ciljeve sa društvenom odgovornošću, te time sugerišu da se preduzeće kao poslovni entitet ne bi trebalo baviti pitanjima iste. Ekološki menadžment u razvijenijim zemljama svijeta dobija sve veći značaj, dok je u Bosni i Hercegovini i zemljama okruženja, gotovo nepoznanica koja se čak i slučaju upotrebe pojma, interpretira na pogrešan način, poistovjećujući pojam sa prosječnim aktivističkim pokretima za zaštitu životne sredine. U ovom radu objašnjena je okolina preduzeća kao uporište potrebe za društvenom odgovornošću, održivim razvojem i ekološkim menadžmentom. Objašnjena je konstantna interkacija koja se odvija između preduzeća i okoline, te zavisnost preduzeća od okoline kao glavni argument za društvenu odgovornost, zatim načini na koji ekološki menadžmenti društvena odgovornost, racionalizacijom troškova, optimizacijom upotrebe resursa i povećavanjem produktivnosti preduzeća, povećavaju efikasnost poslovanja savremenih preduzeća. Kao zaključak, društvena odgovornost, ekološki menadžment i održivi razvoj se predlažu kao imperativi u savremenom poslovanju upravo zbog brojnih pogodnosti koje preduzeće stiče njihovom primjenom u poslovanju.