Social Capital Factors Fostering the Sustainable Competitiveness of Enterprises

Mishchuk, Halyna; Štofková, Zuzana; Krol, Vita; Joshi, Olena; Васа, Ласзло

doi:10.3390/su141911905

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“…Analyzing 68 papers reporting SMEs behaviour during different types of crises, Eggers (2020) points out that successful survival strategies in the majority of cases are those of proactive nature, with a strong focus on the market and entrepreneurial orientation. This is aligned with the current strategies of competitiveness development using different forms of entrepreneurial capital and managerial systems (Lewandowska, 2021;Mishchuk et al, 2022;Pisar & Mazo, 2020). Such conclusions were also drawn by researchers analyzing survival alignment strategies of enterprises during the Covid-19 pandemic (e.g.…”

Section: Literature Review the Covid-19 Pandemic And The Smes Surviva...supporting

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The role of public aid and restrictions’ circumvention in SMEs’ pandemic survival strategies

Stępień¹,

Światowiec-Szczepańska²

2022

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The article aims to find out what proactive or reactive actions of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) helped them survive during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study focuses specifically on how the use of public aid and the restrictions' circumvention impacted the outcomes of SMEs adjustment strategies. Research Design & Methods: Adjustment strategies of small and medium enterprises representing restaurant, spa & beauty, fitness, and hotel industries were investigated. The interviews with business owners were analyzed using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to present non-linear interdependencies between the applied measures and their outcomes. Findings: Successful adjustment strategies were contained in a spectrum of proactive actions combined with the circumvention of restrictions and the use of public aid. Strategies on the verge of survival were characterized by reactive measures accompanied by the use of public aid. Implications & Recommendations: Proactivity significantly boosts the probability of successful survival, but it can take both legal forms and those that by design circumvent the law. Contribution & Value Added: This paper contributes to understanding the impact of public aid on adjustment strategies of small and medium-sized enterprises in the B2C sector and deepening the knowledge on the grounds of SMEs (non)compliance with restrictions. Proactive strategies can include an element of law circumvention with the simultaneous use of public aid measures. Article type:research article

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The role of public aid and restrictions’ circumvention in SMEs’ pandemic survival strategies

Stępień¹,

Światowiec-Szczepańska²

2022

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“…However, entrepreneurship education is facing contemporary civilization challenges, including economic challenges and facing new trends in green entrepreneurship and climate protection (Alvarez-Risco et al 2021). To some extent, the challenging issues in entrepreneurial activity are covered within entrepreneurial systems of managerial training (Mishchuk et al, 2022), particularly, due to the reason of lack of entrepreneurial knowledge, sometimes even for the business owners (Civelek et al, 2021b;Devkota et al, 2022). However, these activities are not a substitute for university entrepreneurship education.…”

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Entrepreneurial education, government policies and programmes, and entrepreneurial behaviour: A serial moderated mediation model

Duong¹,

Wach²,

Xuan³

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The research aims to adopt a serial moderation mediation model to investigate the serial indirect effects of entrepreneurial education and the moderation impacts of entrepreneurial government policies and programmes on entrepreneurial attitude-intention-behaviour links and tighten the attitude-intention-behaviour gap in the entrepreneurial area. Research Design & Methods:A sample of 802 master students from nine universities/institutions in Vietnam and structural equation modelling (SEM) were employed to test developed hypotheses. Findings: The research demonstrates that attitude towards entrepreneurship played a more important role than entrepreneurial intention in sculpting start-up behaviour. Entrepreneurial education not only has direct effects on entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviours, but it also has serial mediation effects on entrepreneurial behaviour via two mediators, including entrepreneurial attitudes and intention. Moreover, entrepreneurial government policies and programmes were found to significantly reinforce the entrepreneurial attitude-intention-behaviour linkages. Implications & Recommendations:The findings of this research offer valuable insights for policymakers and practitioners who wish to encourage individuals' entrepreneurial activities. Contribution & Value Added:The research is expected to significantly contribute to entrepreneurship literature by indicating the serial mediation effects of entrepreneurial education on entrepreneurial behaviour, the moderation impacts of entrepreneurial government policies and programmes, and closing the entrepreneurial attitude-intention-behaviour gap. Article type:research article

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“…Various issues are addressed in this regard. Some of them are investigated within the social capital management of business entities (Mishchuk et al, 2022), supply chain and risk management (Cepel et al, 2020;Setyaningsih & Kelle, 2021). The research on the impact of family involvement in the ownership and family business management (m.in.…”

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Management methods and tools in family businesses: Impact on the effectiveness of achieving goals

Biel¹,

Ślusarczyk²

2022

Journal of International Studies

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Efficient management at family businesses, like all other enterprises, requires the use of appropriate methods and tools. However, in many cases, the people managing these entities do not have any formal business education and often follow their intuition and act on experience gained over the years. The purpose of this article is to determine the extent to which select management methods and tools are used in Polish family businesses and to examine their impact on the effectiveness of achieving various objectives. A survey was conducted on a group of 182 managers of family businesses from Poland, who were asked about the effectiveness of achieving goals and the methods and tools used in management. The goals have been aggregated into three main groups: family goals, business goals, and a mix of family and business goals. Then, using statistical methods, the impact of the selected management methods and tools on the effectiveness of these three groups of objectives was examined. The conducted analysis has shown that family businesses in Poland make little use of professional management methods and tools and are rather limited to the intuitive use of the simplest methods, which they often cannot even professionally name. The research results indicate that the use of these methods only partially influences the effectiveness of achieving the set goals, and this impact can be observed in all three groups. In view of the above, the basic task of the broader family business environment is to improve the knowledge of professional management methods and tools among family business managers. From the scientific point of view, further research in this area is also necessary because little use of management methods and tools, especially those more professional, makes it difficult to broaden the study of the actual impact of these instruments on the effectiveness of achieving family business objectives

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Social Capital Factors Fostering the Sustainable Competitiveness of Enterprises

Cited by 34 publications

References 72 publications

The role of public aid and restrictions’ circumvention in SMEs’ pandemic survival strategies

The role of public aid and restrictions’ circumvention in SMEs’ pandemic survival strategies

Entrepreneurial education, government policies and programmes, and entrepreneurial behaviour: A serial moderated mediation model

Management methods and tools in family businesses: Impact on the effectiveness of achieving goals

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