Prof. Dr. Thomas Steger (Editor-in-chief), University of Regensburg | Prof. Dr. Rainhart Lang, Chemnitz University of Technology | Tiia Vissak, University of Tartu
The aim of this paper is to present and analyze the relevant factors affecting functional decision making, which are related to specific organizations in terms of undefined conditions, as well as manager’s characteristics in the given...
Creativity and innovation is generally considered to be one of the important factors in the competitiveness and success of organizations. The managers of an organization can positively affect individual creativity and firm innovativeness by...
In the process of organisational change, there are two broad categories of employees’ reactions: those who are open to change and those who have a difficult time accepting change in general, including organisational change. These differences can...
This study examines the moderating role of work centrality in the relationship between work alienation and organisational commitment on employees of Turkish SMEs. Past research has demonstrated an inverse association between alienation and...
The aim of this paper is to determine the ethical position of respondents in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia, Poland, Estonia, Finland and Croatia, and to this end the authors studied the relationship between ethical positions and certain...
This paper focuses on micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in Serbia, with a special emphasis on family-owned businesses. The main goal of this research is to analyze family business owners’ perception of stress caused by high levels of...
The authors studied whether the existing internationalization theories are relevant to the companies from CEE that started the internationalization process differently from Western Europe and the USA. In order to do so, they first analyzed the major...
Given the cultural differences between Western Europe and Poland, differences are expected in leadership styles and behaviours between Polish and Western managers. Our study explored Polish employees’ perceptions and attitudes toward expatriate...
The paper assesses the influence of foreign-owned subsidiaries’ (FS) intra- and inter-organizational relationships on product innovation performance. Data drawn from CIS figures for the 2006-2008 cover 1747 FS established in Germany, 385 FS in the...
The present paper aims to identify the interdependencies between the motives and modes of foreign direct investment (FDI) undertaken by Polish companies in different host countries. The qualitative analysis also considers firm characteristics, prior...
Migration from Eastern to Western Europe has increased under transition from planned to market economies. As migrants return home they may enhance local entrepreneurial activity by transferring skills and knowledge gained abroad....
The paper presents a review of literature concerning the success factors and development barriers of the born global companies, followed by results of two empirical studies conducted in Poland in 2012 and 2013. The first was performed with use of...
Due to the ever greater cooperation between China and CEE countries, and especially the lack of research on the young generation’s work values among the latter, we fill an empirical gap and conduct a comparative analysis of work values among...
This paper presents the first qualitative research study of the multiple intelligences of Chinese and Slovenian stakeholders at the Confucius Institute Ljubljana. Our research question is: “How can the integration of multiple intelligences into...
International staff mobility is promoted in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), and China. Combining theory in strategic entrepreneurship and cultural difference, this study investigates the implementation of staff mobility in a...