Environment and Performance of Family Businesses in the Reforming Polish Economy

Zapalska, Alina M.; Shuklian, Steve; Rudd, Denis; Flanegin, Frank

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“…All firms face challenges that affect firm performance throughout all stages of development and growth. The most common problems include lack of funding, experience, accounting, managerial, and technological skills, and low levels of labor productivity (Zapalska et al, 2003). Mair and Marti (2009) indicated the importance of both government and financial sector policies supporting entrepreneurial activities as they play a critical role in attaining sustained rises in economic growth, employment, and living standards.…”

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“…This paper examines 10 small female-owned firms operating in the Southern regions of Poland within the tourism and hospitality industry to identify the major firms' characteristics and factors that have promoted and inhibited the growth of those businesses. This paper examines the strate-gies undertaken by those 10 female entrepreneurs as female entrepreneurs generally experience more challenging entrepreneurial processes while their entrepreneurial ingenuity and success are not equally recognized as their male counterparts (Zapalska et al, 2003).…”

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Tourism and hospitality industry: A case study of Polish female firms

M. Zapalska,

McCutcheon

2024

Problems and Perspectives in Management

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The objective was to identify the firms’ short-run and long-run strategies that contributed to firms’ development, job creation and economic growth of local economies, and employees’ and customers’ satisfaction across all Butler’s stages of development. The results indicate that the firms have been successful supporting environmental sustainability, conservation of natural resources, and protection of cultural elements of local communities. During the Covid-19 shutdown, the female entrepreneurs assessed past strategies, invested in development and production of new and better-quality products and services, advanced employees’ and entrepreneurial skills, and transformation of digital and production infrastructure. The study identified the importance of government policies critical for entrepreneurship success, particularly during global crises. The paper illustrates several lessons focused specifically on fostering a supportive work environment that enables firms to endure through and successfully recover from market shocks or global crises. The study concludes that all female entrepreneurs were experienced, motivated, visionary, goal-oriented, and innovative regarding their entrepreneurial undertakings while focusing on understanding the needs and maximizing employee and customer satisfaction. The resiliency they developed enabled them to stay focused on their goals and maintain successful operations while facing insufficient financial and non-financial support, market challenges, and global crises.

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Tourism and hospitality industry: A case study of Polish female firms

M. Zapalska,

McCutcheon

2024

Problems and Perspectives in Management

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“…Once an entrepreneurial firm is created, the entrepreneurial process becomes influential in a cyclical progression of opportunities and the development of various forms of entrepreneurship. The common challenges faced by entrepreneurial firms include lack of financing, low productivity, lack of managerial capabilities, lack of access to management, technology skills, and experience, lack of mentors and appropriate leadership, accounting, and organizational skills, as well as the presence of heavy regulatory burdens (Turnbull et al,, 2001;Zapalska et al, 2003). Those problems change and are affected by the stages of a firm's development and growth.…”

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism and Hospitality in Poland

Zapalska,

McCutcheon

2024

Tourism (Zagreb, Online)

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Beyond severe illness and deaths, the COVID-19 pandemic brought widespread economic disruption, businesses closing, and unemployment surging to levels not experienced since the Great Depression. The effect of this pandemic on global tourism has been fast, extensive, widespread, and devastating. This paper identifies the significant characteristics of female entrepreneurial businesses. It examines the strategies taken between 2015 and 2022 to influence the firm's growth and reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings are based on the interviews conducted with ten female entrepreneurs who own and operate small family-based entrepreneurial firms in Poland's tourism and hospitality industry. This paper aims to deliver recommendations for policy actions and entrepreneurship strategies to effectively grow and curtail or counterbalance the impact of exogenous shocks such as the economic shutdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…According to (Huang, Ding, and Kao, 2009), a family firm is defined as an organization owned and/or controlled by members of a family or kinship group. The family business is a business governed and/or managed with the intention to shape and pursue the vision of the business held by a dominant coalition controlled by members of the same family or a small number of families in a manner that is potentially sustainable across generations of the family or families as defined by (Zapalska, et al, 2003).…”

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Case Study of Recruitment and Selection of Employees in the Family Businesses of Tasikmalaya

Rahadi

Cakranegara

Claudia

2018

IJFBP

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<p>Human resource planning within a company includes policies such as recruitment and selection, compensation, performance appraisal, career development, and training and development. Recruitment and selection process becomes the main factor to do professional human resources. The purpose of this research is to know how the concept of recruitment and selection model on family business in small and medium enterprise sector. The object of research is small and medium business in Tasikmalaya city in handicraft sector. The research method used qualitative and data collection through triangulation method where researchers examine the interrelated phenomena from different perspectives. The results showed that family emotional relationship factors often affect the recruitment and selection process of employees. Moreover, Incompetent recruitment and selection models will threaten the performance and even the existence of the company. The poor management of human resources in the family company will have negative impacts such as the outbreak of conflict, the unfavourable working situation, the development of various intrigues, and the high level of employee turnover will ultimately impact on the performance of the company.</p>

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Environment and Performance of Family Businesses in the Reforming Polish Economy

Cited by 7 publications

References 19 publications

Tourism and hospitality industry: A case study of Polish female firms

Tourism and hospitality industry: A case study of Polish female firms

The Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism and Hospitality in Poland

Case Study of Recruitment and Selection of Employees in the Family Businesses of Tasikmalaya

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