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IT systems are seen as invaluable support to financial and accounting specialists, however, many enterprises are unable to use their analytical potential. The paper validates a positive contribution of the systems to the effectiveness of management control in small and medium-sized companies. The research included 129 Polish SMEs. Even though IT systems of ERP and BI classes were not commonly available (they were used by 18.6% of SMEs), it was observed that financial and management accounting received adequate IT support (in 58.1% of cases). Furthermore, sales and customer service were seen as domains were ITS contributed the most to the business. Finally of 51 SMEs which had no access to advanced software, only 7 found that situation negative.
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2009
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vol. 12
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issue 1
129-134
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The rule of Continuous Improvement is one of the pillars of the concept of Total Quality Management. It states that one should continuously seek the sources of arising problems and eliminate or minimize them. The article presents a method of implementing the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility based on the above rule and afterwards it identifies the most important advantages of using the rule. The article also stresses its usefulness in the area of Small and Medium-sized Companies.
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Industrial companies are the core of the national innovation system. However, large, medium and small enterprises differ significantly in their role in the innovation system, resource potential, strategic priorities and objectives. The paper focuses on a comparative analysis of the strategic priorities of innovative activities of Russian companies of different size. We have identified three types of companies: small innovative companies, large and medium-sized companies with a traditional business model, major innovation-driven companies with an integrated business model. Our analysis of the trajectories of small innovative firms located in Novosibirsk Scientific Center showed that the majority of the companies can be characterized either as spin-off firm or as specialized supplier. Spin-offs are newly established small firms, who have recently separated from the major research labs or parent companies. The typical behavior model for such companies is innovative entrepreneurship. Specialized suppliers are small companies that provide significant contributions to complex manufacturing systems in the form of equipment, parts, tools and software. Innovative objectives of such small companies deal with design and production of the specific elements required for large companies. Large and medium-sized companies with a traditional business model are characterized by the existing structure of commodity output and the supply chain. Characteristic type of innovative behavior for such companies includes incremental product and process innovations. Large innovation-oriented companies with an integrated business model have traditional production units and innovative units in their structure. Innovation priorities of major innovation-oriented companies with integrated business model are consistent with the hybrid model of behavior which combines the traditional model with an innovative entrepreneurship.
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Obecnie obserwuje się na rynku zmiany dokonujące się pod wpływem globalizacji i integracji gospodarki. Postępujące procesy globalizacji i integracji wymuszają na małych i średnich przedsiębiorstwach wzajemną współpracę z innymi przedsiębiorstwami z podobnych branż. Zarządzanie przedsiębiorstwem w dobie integracji i globalizacji gospodarki rynkowej wymaga zastosowania odpowiedniej wiedzy, metod i instrumentów marketingu.
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Nowadays, one can observe changes which occur on the market as the result of globalization and integration of market economy. The advancing processes of globalization and integration of the market force small and medium-sized companies to set up mutual co-operations with participants of market transactions. Management of companies in the era of globalization and integration of market economy becomes a very complex issue, calling for knowledge of rules, methods and marketing instruments.
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Celem publikacji jest przedstawienie zależności między kapitałem relacyjnym przedsiębiorstw, rozumianym jako sieć ich powiązań z otoczeniem gospodarczym, a podejmowanymi przez nie inwestycjami. Wyniki badań przeprowadzonych w Polsce na próbie n=1346 małych i średnich przedsiębiorstw pokazują, że zarówno liczba, jak i jakość relacji z otoczeniem gospodarczym ma dodatni wpływ na inwestycje podejmowane przez małe i średnie przedsiębiorstwa.
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The aim of this article is to present the relationship between relational capital of enterprises, understood as a network of connections with the business environment, and investments undertaken by them. Results of studies conducted in Poland on a sample of n = 1,346 small and medium-sized enterprises show that both the number and quality of the relationships with the economic environment has a positive impact on the investments undertaken by small and medium-sized enterprises.
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This paper explores whether religiously motivated behaviour may function as the Streeckian “beneficial constraint” in its potential of hindering voluntaristic action of economic actors and thus increases productivity of the analyzed small and medium-sized enterprises, challenged by the informal economy/corruption. Efficient performance in the formal economic sphere usually demands that entrepreneurs who enter formality introduce new organizational structures, which bring competitive products or services into a market or find a niche for their products. The study inquired into the question whether Catholic-oriented entrepreneurs, while shifting to formality from informality or maintaining legal compliance created innovative economic strategies. Whilst examining this problem it was found that the religious attitude of the analysed entrepreneurs is co-determined by the structural context in which the analyzed actors operated (e.g. type of economic sector, the size of the company, the degree of informalization of given sector, managerial skills etc).
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Artykuł podejmuje próbę sprawdzenia, czy zachowanie motywowane religijnie może stanowić „użyteczne ograniczenie” w sensie zaproponowanym przez Streecka, czyli jako potencjalne powstrzymywanie woluntarystycznych działań aktorów ekonomicznych i zwiększanie tym samym produktywności analizowanych małych i średnich firm wystawianych na pokusę szarej strefy czy korupcji. Źródłem efektywności ekonomicznej w formalnie funkcjonującej sferze ekonomicznej są zwykle nowe struktury organizacyjne pozwalające na wprowadzenie na rynek konkurencyjnych produktów czy usług lub znalezienie niszy dla tych produktów. Artykuł poszukuje odpowiedzi na pytanie, czy przedsiębiorcy katoliccy, przechodząc ze strefy nieformalnej do formalnej, tworzą innowacyjne strategie gospodarcze. Okazuje się, że postawy religijne badanych przedsiębiorców są współdeterminowane przez kontekst strukturalny, w którym ci przedsiębiorcy działają (np. typ branży ekonomicznej, wielkość firmy, zakres czynników nieformalnych w danej branży, umiejętności menedżerskie itp.).
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