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International Strategy as the Facilitator of the Speed, Scope, and Scale of Firms’ Internationalization
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Fundamental Analysis – Possiblity of Application on the Real Estate Market
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Application of superelements in static analysis of thin‐walled structures
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Entrepreneurship in Virtual Economy: the Case of Currency One SA
PublicationPurpose: The scientific purpose of the study is an attempted synthesis of interpretation of “the virtual economy” and “the virtual environment” in the Polish and foreign literature on the subject. The cognitive purpose thereof is to offer an identification and a qualitative analysis of the factors that determine the development of e-entrepreneurship using an example of business practice. Methodology: The theoretical basis of the...
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The High Quality Business School Academic Teacher of the 21st Century – Polish Students’ Perspective
PublicationThe literature shows that the success and competence of future managers depend on the quality of their academic teachers. Moreover high quality study requires high quality lecturing/teaching that creates an environment in which deep learning outcomes are made possible for students. The aim was to identify the characteristics of the academic teacher working at business schools, according to the expectations of Polish students...
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Knowledge Safety – Insights from the SME Sector
PublicationPurpose: This paper aims to explore the topic of knowledge safety, defined as the state of knowledge being safe from loss, leakage, attrition, oblivion, waste or theft. The paper first presents a theoretical background and review of previous studies on knowledge loss and ways of overcoming it, and then illustrates the topic of knowledge safety with ten case studies from the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) sector. Methodology:...
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Knowledge Sharing and Organizational Culture Dimensions: Does Job Satisfaction Matter?
PublicationThe aim of this study is to examine how job satisfaction influences the relationship between company performance, knowledge sharing, and organizational culture, perceived through the prism of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, controlled by company size and staff position. A survey of 910 Polish employees (mainly knowledge workers) with different roles and experiences across different industries was conducted. The data were analyzed...
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Market knowledge and new product performance: the mediating effects of new product performance
PublicationMarket knowledge is recognised as an important predictor of new product performance, which existing studies have proven. However, a missing link in this relationship is creativity, and specifically, as a natural process in product innovation. This study aims to examine a model that includes two mediating mechanisms between market knowledge scope and two new product outcomes, respectively: a new product’s competitive advantage and...
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Growth Orientation of Women and Men Owners of Micro Firms in the Pomerianian Region
PublicationDespite the fact that research on women’s entrepreneurship has been conducted for many years, still many clear answers to questions about the differences between entrepreneurs of both genders are missing. One of the unresolved issues is the performance of women in entrepreneurship. The aim of the study is to investigate the growth orientation of microenterprises operating in the Pomeranian region in Poland and to compare its level...
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On my way to global science - 1933-2015 memoirs". A volume of memoirs by professor Wiesław Maria Grudzewski
PublicationI wish to express my graditude for the oportunity to read excellent on the life and academic work of Professor Grudzewski, and outstanding scientist and unquestioned authority on economic sciences in the area of management science. Professor Grudzewski had an influence on the events presented in his memoirs through his acquaintances and associates.
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Relationships between Trust and Collaborative Culture in The Context of Tacit Knowledge Sharing
PublicationThe literature review presents a lot of theoretical and empirical evidence that Trust affects Collaborative Culture. The opposite also proves to be true: Collaborative Culture influences Trust. The main hypothesis presented in this paper says that both these factors are strongly correlated and modify each other. This study examines the mutual relationship of the said variables in the context of Tacit Knowledge Sharing based on...
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Testing Students’ Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy as an Early Predictor of Entrepreneurial Activities. Evidence From the SEAS Project
PublicationOver the last forty years, since Bandura (1977) introduced the concept of self-efficacy, there have been a constantly growing number of research publications using this concept. Its early development resulted in the creation of a new construct of entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) proposed for the first time by (Chen et al. 1998). Since then, many different groups of research concerning ESE have emerged - one of them is the study...
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Evaluating Business Accelerator Participants’ Experiences – Effectuation at Play?
PublicationResponding to the new phenomena in entrepreneurship ecosystems in Poland, the author undertakes the study that aims to explore experiences of participants of (pre)accelerator programme for start-ups. Clipster is a business an acceleration and incubation programme, where participants have a unique co-living opportunity and work on their new venture ideas. With phenomenological interviews with six nascent entrepreneurs - participants...
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Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Phenomenon: Antecedents, Processes, Impact across Cultures and Contexts
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The Perception of an Entrepreneur’s Structural, Relational and Cognitive Social Capital among Young People in Poland - An Exploratory Study
PublicationThe goal of the current paper is to verify how an entrepreneur’s structural, relational and cognitive social capital levels are perceived by young people in Poland. The research involved a group of 374 undergraduate business students from a Polish university as participants. Participants completed a survey on entrepreneurial cognitions. It was found that participants assess the level of an entrepreneur’s social capital as relatively...
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Personal branding of artists and art-designers: necessity or desire?
PublicationPurpose Personal branding becomes a new in-demand skill for all professionals today. To be well-known helps to achieve success in the networked business environment. Personal relationships and a good reputation in the reality of network economy help young artists and art designers move up the career ladder. This paper aims to discuss a problem of artists who often find it difficult to define their artistic and self-distinction...
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The risk assessment of adverse events of nursing activities as the element of quality management in healhcare
PublicationThe purpose of the paper is to present MedCARVER+Shock method and Pareto analysis and its usability for the risk assessment of adverse events of nursing activities. 888 activities carried out by all 190 nurses working at the District Hospital X located in Poland were taken into account. During the research the qualitative approach was used. As the result sixteen groups of nursing activities causing the highest risk of adverse events...
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PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION IN ORGANISATIONS OF REPETITIVE ACTIVITIES
PublicationThe study presents the implementation of projects in organisations that achieve business objec-tives through the implementation of repetitive actions. Projects in these organisations are, on the one hand, treated as marginal activities, while the results of these projects have significant impact on the delivery of main processes, e.g. through the introduction of new products. Human capital and solutions in this field bear impact...
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Organisational culture and change management in courts, based on the examples of the Gdańsk area courts
PublicationABSTRAKT Background. Courts are by definition bureaucratic, hierarchical organisations, epitomised by low levels of networking potential, which basically lack mechanisms of information exchange, or those of sharing information both at the level of the organisation of the justice system (the macro scale) and within a given court (the micro scale). Research aims. The aims of this article was implementing modern management methods...
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Searching for innovation knowledge: insight into KIBS companies
PublicationThe paper analyses the activity of research for “innovation knowledge”—here defined as knowledge that can lead to the introduction of service innovations—by Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) companies. It proposes a classification of the possible search approaches adopted by those companies based on two dimensions: the pro-activity of search efforts and the source primarily used. Such classification is then discussed...
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Mapping knowledge risks: towards a better understanding of knowledge management
PublicationThis conceptual paper aims to identify, present, and analyze potential knowledge risks organizations might face. With the growing complexity of organizational environments and the plethora of new knowledge risks emerging, this critical but under-researched field of knowledge management (KM) deserves closer attention. The study is based on a critical analysis of the extant literature devoted to knowledge risks, discusses potential...
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GROWTH AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN TRANSITION COUNTRIES: THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG?
PublicationThe objective of this study is to test empirically the relationship between structural changes (changes in gross value added and employment) and economic growth. We used a panel Granger-causality analysis based on annual data for eight transition countries, covering the period 1995–2011. The main finding is that the causality relations analysed are heterogeneous processes and are identified more often...
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Do global brands contribute to the economy of their country of origin? A dynamic spatial approach
PublicationPurpose - Brand positioning based on the brand’s country of origin is at the centre of attention in international marketing. It is evident that global brands constitute critical intangible assets for businesses and places. However, it is not clear how they contribute to national economies. This paper aims to discuss the significance of brands as contributing to the value of their companies but also helping to leverage national...
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Information technology assessment using a functional prototype of the agent based system
PublicationIn the paper authors present the progress of works related with the agent-based system serving the purpose of information technology assessment. Currently this is a prototype including agents, the knowledge base and the ontology; the domain incorporated by the assessment-enterprise managing technologies with special attention paid to technologies directed to IT projects. In this paper, besides indication of expected functionalities...
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Some engineering applications of ANN in CAD
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono zastosowanie sztucznych sieci neuronowych: dla obliczeń i doboru regulatora pneumatycznego, w optymalizacji pneumatycznych układów napędowych i w optymalizacji systemu amortyzacji siedziska.
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Developing a model of cooperation between universities and business - the generalization of cases of cooperation
PublicationThe aim of this paper is to present a model of cooperation between universities and business.
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Zarządzanie ryzykiem jako czynnik sprzyjający wzrostowi MSP
PublicationArtykuł jest przyczynkiem do dyskusji na temat potrzeby mobilizacji małych i średnich przedsiębiorstw do działań na rzecz kontroli i ograniczania ryzyka w działalności gospodarczej. Zarządzanie ryzykiem jest pojęciem szerokim, stąd skupiono się na jednym z jego wymiarów, na warunkach korzystania przez przedsiębiorców z możliwości minimalizowania ryzyk ubezpieczalnych. Badania wskazują, że mimo iż ubezpieczenia są niezbędnym elementem...
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Managing Students’ Affairs at Higher Education Institutions: A Qualitative Analysis of Selected Tasks and Processes
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JOB SATISFACTION OF IT PROFESSIONALS IN POLAND: DOES BUSINESS COMPETENCE MATTER?
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Determinants of the European Union’s Trade - evidence from a panel estimation of the gravity model
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THE TIMING OF INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS – NON-NUMERICAL MODEL BASED ON QUALITATIVE TRENDS
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RUMOURS RELATED TO POLITICAL INSTABILITY AND THEIR IMPACT ON IPOs. THE USE OF QUALITATIVE MODELLING WITH INCOMPLETE KNOWLEDGE
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Psychometric Evaluation of the Gratitude Toward the Organization Scale
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Factors affecting credibility of e-shops in Poland
PublicationArtykuł stanowi kontynuację tematu podjętego w poprzednich pracach autora nt. czynników wpływających na wiarygodność detalicznych sklepów internetowych. Przedstawiono w nim wstępne wyniki badań dokonanych przez autora.
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Process management methodology for quality systems of small organizations
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono najważniejsze elementy metodyki wdrażania zorientowanych procesowo systemów zarządzania jakością wg normy ISO 9001. Zaprezentowano przykład struktury procesów systemu jakości oraz prosta metodę opisu procesów (przewodnik procesu). Omówiono założenia metodyki oraz wybrane sposoby nadzorowania procesów. W podsumowaniu wskazano korzyści płynące ze stosowania metody w małych organizacjach.
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Ewolucja uczelni w kierunku organizacji wiedzy
PublicationAutor analizuje zmiany zachodzące we współczesnych uczelniach, głównie w zakresie kształtowania kultury organizacyjnej, prowadzące do przekształcenia się uczelni w organizacje podporządkowane wiedzy, szczególnie podkreślając znaczenie kształtowania relacji uczelni z otoczeniem. Rozważania ogólne zilustrowane są przykładami z Wyższej Szkoły Biznesu NLU w Nowym Sączu, w której dostrzec można podejmowanie systemowych działań w kierunku...
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Knowledge management embedded in software engineering processes
PublicationW pracy omówiono systemy i narzędzia wspomagające wykrywanie wiedzy ukrytej w procesach związanych z wytwarzaniem skomplikowanych systemów oprogramowania
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Information technology and knowledge management: a predestined integration. Part 1 : editorial
PublicationW pracy omówiono możliwość przyszłościowej integracj obszarów technologii informacyjnej oraz zarządzania wiedzą
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The influence of a knowledge-based economy on the functioning of contemporary organization
PublicationArtykuł przedstawia wyzwania, jakie stwarza gospodarka oparta na wiedzy, którym muszą sprostać współczesne organizacje. Proponuje również pewne formy organizacyjne, które pozwalają organizacjom sprostać tym wyzwaniom. Ponadto, artykuł prezentuje zmiany w charakterze pracy takie, jak konieczność uczenia się nowych rzeczy czy podejmowania nierutynowych działań, praca poza organizacją, praca w niestandardowych godzinach pracy czy...
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Samorządowe inicjatywy na rzecz rozwoju gospodarczego - doświadczenia gmin województwa pomorskiego
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Intelligent platform for communication, control and management of modern enterprises
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono praktyczną metodę tworzenia interaktywnej i inteligentnej platformy do kontroli i zarządzania nowoczesną firmą z zastosowaniem sieci telekomunikacyjnej. Omówiono sposób realizacji poszczególnych etapów projektowych, dokonując przy tym wyboru konkretnych technologii informatycznych, takich jak relacyjne bazy danych, technologie bezprzewodowe oraz czynników bezpieczeństwa.
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Information technology and knowledge management: a predestined integration. Part 2: editorial
PublicationW pracy omówiono możliwość przyszłościowej integracji obszarów technologii informacyjnej oraz zarządzania wiedzą.
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Quality model for UML tools in application to UML tool selection and market analysis
PublicationJęzyki modelowania i wspierające je narzędzia odgrywają istotną rolę w procesie wytwarzania i utrzymania oprogramowania. Wraz ze wzrostem liczby narzędzi UML na rynku pojawia się potrzeba ich porównania i oceny. Artykuł prezentuje wielowymiarowy model oceny narzędzi UML, opisuje ankietę przydatną do oceny narzędzi UML oraz przedstawia system oceny narzędzi UML wraz ze studium przypadku jego zastosowania do poszukiwania narzędzi...
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ДО ПИТАННЯ ТЕОРЕТИЧНИХ ОСНОВ РИНКУ СТРАХОВИХ ПОСЛУГ
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TRANSFORMATION OF DIGITALIZATION ON THE FINANCIAL AND INSURANCE MARKET
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Real Estate Value Tax Based on the Latvian Experience
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Quasi-Public Real Estate Within The City Of Wrocław
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Fees for Advertisements in Public Space Incurred by a Given Bank Brand in Poland
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Fees For Advertisements In The Right-Of-Ways Of Public Roads Incurred By A Given Bank Brand In Poland
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THE ANALYSIS OF THE BANKRUPTCY OF ENTERPRISES EXEMPLIFIED BY THE VISEGRAD GROUP
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