This article contributes both quantitatively and qualitatively to the discussion on implementation of business ethics, as a basic background of social responsibility leading to systemic behaviour. In the frame of business ethics the ethical core values, culture, ethical climate, informal, and formal measures of business ethics implementation is addressed. The article is also aimed to improve understanding of importance of (ethical) corporate governance, key stakeholdersʼ influence on the enterpriseʼs core values, culture, the ethical climate, and informal and formal measures of business ethics implementation as the constitutional elements of enterprise ethical behaviour. The article briefs important cognitions of various empirical researches on business ethics in the case of Slovenian enterprises. The business ethics strongly relates to, and matters in, achieving more enterprisesʼ social responsibility and humankindʼs well-being.
COBISS.SI-ID: 11567644
Many studies that place entrepreneurship in the centre of their research, especially those exploring the influence of entrepreneurship on economic growth and development, often do not provide definitions and entrepreneurship measures that would be comprehensive enough for an in-depth empirical verification. Because measuring and internationally comparing entrepreneurship and its results are challenging tasks, the entrepreneurship measures must be carefully chosen and interpreted so that they can be appropriately considered when preparing policy-making recommendations. In this paper, we more precisely define the entrepreneurship measures most often used at the national level and identify their strengths and weaknesses as well as possible intersections.
COBISS.SI-ID: 11594268
Is the societal-level of analysis sufficient today to understand the values of those in the global workforce? Or are individual-level analyses more appropriate for assessing the influence of values on ethical behaviors across country workforces? Using multi-level analyses for a 48-society sample, we test the utility of both the societal-level and individual-level dimensions of collectivism and individualism values for predicting ethical behaviors of business professionals. Our values-based behavioral analysis indicates that values at the individual-level make a more significant contribution to explaining variance in ethical behaviors than do values at the societal-level. Implicitly, our findings question the soundness of using societal-level values measures. Implications for international business research are discussed.
COBISS.SI-ID: 11412764
The basic purpose of the current chapter is to examine one of the most well-known organizational concepts from the end of the 90s – the concept of networking. In so-called networking economy, each network actor (individual, team, or organization) is embedded in a larger economic web that affects each participant and, in return, is influenced by that participant. By analyzing networking activities between enterprises and organizations (business networking) as well as entrepreneurs’ personal networking (entrepreneurial networking), this study seeks to empirically address the following research question: “How does activity in network relationships differ between male and female entrepreneurs and the companies they are directing?” The gender perspective is important because of the limited understanding of the gendered influences of economic development that entrepreneurship activity undoubtedly has on a society. The analysis is based on a data set and questionnaires with 193 entrepreneurs of small and medium-sized companies in Slovenia. The results revealed interesting findings. It appears that male entrepreneurs have less intensive cooperation with supportive institutions as female entrepreneurs who are largely separating their private life from business. The initial findings represent a signal for the entrepreneurial supportive environment; it should be better adapted to meet the needs of the specific SME segment.
COBISS.SI-ID: 11482908
The purpose of this paper is to present the adapted model per phases of the creative problem solving (CPS) process, where multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods are used in the decision-making phase. Also, to adapt and complete the steps of the six-question technique, in order to establish the criteria's importance. The framework procedure of MCDM, together with the Dialectical Systems Theory's guidelines when solving complex problems has already been introduced. The procedure was well-verified in practice, but lacked the support of creative qualitative techniques in defining problems, and in generating and choosing alternatives. To eliminate this deficiency, in terms of prescriptive approach, the authors adapted the phases of the CPS process, where MCDM methods are used when choosing alternatives, and completed the steps of the six-question technique to establish the criteria weights. The discrete Choquet integral was used to consider interactions among criteria. The article shows that creative approaches are not limited to merely problem definitions and problem structuring. They can also be used in typically analytical steps in the framework procedure. The completed and adapted phases of the CPS process can allow the mutual assistance of creative and decision-making methods when solving problems - a step forward to holism.This article develops and introduces the use of the six-question technique, in the establishment of criteria weights. The innovative aspect of this article is that it adapts and completes the CPS process so that MCDM methods can be used when choosing alternatives. It extends the use of creative approaches to typically analytical steps of MCDM, where synergies and redundancies among criteria are considered.
COBISS.SI-ID: 11303196