The Innovative Approach to the Evaluation of the Social Responsible Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

IF 1.2 Q4 MANAGEMENT Marketing and Management of Innovations Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.21272/mmi.2022.2-09
I. Ubrežiová, Oksana Sokil, D. Lančarič
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Understanding social responsibility importance pushes businesses to assume not only the behaviour of law-abidingness but also to carry the voluntary participation in the implementation of corporate contribution to the development of the community and the territory and establishing social partnership relations with the state. However, it should be noted that no aspects of social responsibility have been analysed appropriately. In particular, some authors pointed out that it is necessary to increase the number of studies related to the social responsibility perception of small and medium enterprises because these companies often lack a clear understanding and conscious recognition of socially responsible importance. Such a situation has motivated the authors to do research in this area. The food service sector was chosen for an investigation in Ukraine, Portugal, and Slovakia. The purpose of the paper is to find out the most important factors that influence the socially responsible perception of small and medium-sized enterprises among food service enterprises in Ukraine, Portugal, and Slovakia from the viewpoint of the economic pillar. Primary data were collected by conducting a questionnaire survey of Ukraine, Portuguese, and Slovak small and medium-sized enterprises working in the food sector. The research was conducted in selected cities of each country (Portugal: Lisbon, Porto, Faro; Slovakia: Bratislava, Nitra, Košice, and Ukraine: Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa). The city selection could be explained by the fact that the before-mentioned cities are the most visited ones in the selected countries. The study received 107 answers from Ukraine, 102 from Portugal, and 101 from Slovakia. Statistical analysis was performed by using IBM SPSS software and MS Excel. It could be concluded that the research describes that the company's financial situation has the most significant influence on its performance. In addition, enterprises with a short-term existence display better social responsibility performance. The results have several practical implications for organisations' policymakers. Results showed that adopting the socially responsible concept greatly depends on the company's financial situation. However, several socially responsible activities are neutral concerning the costs. The companies could focus on collaboration with other small and medium-sized enterprises, getting involved in community service activities and collaboration with nonprofit organisations, charity camps organisation, team building activities, organisation of masterclasses for children, resources donation, and reuse activities.
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中小企业社会责任评价的创新方法
认识到社会责任的重要性,促使企业不仅要承担守法的行为,而且要进行自愿参与,履行企业对社区和领土发展的贡献,与国家建立社会伙伴关系。然而,应该指出的是,没有对社会责任的各个方面进行适当的分析。特别是,一些作者指出,中小企业往往对社会责任的重要性缺乏清晰的认识和自觉的认识,因此有必要增加有关中小企业社会责任认知的研究。这种情况促使作者在这一领域进行研究。在乌克兰、葡萄牙和斯洛伐克,食品服务部门被选为调查对象。本文的目的是从经济支柱的角度,找出影响乌克兰、葡萄牙和斯洛伐克餐饮服务业中小企业社会责任认知的最重要因素。主要数据是通过对乌克兰、葡萄牙和斯洛伐克从事食品行业的中小型企业进行问卷调查收集的。这项研究是在每个国家的选定城市进行的(葡萄牙:里斯本、波尔图、法鲁;斯洛伐克:布拉迪斯拉发,尼特拉,Košice,乌克兰:基辅,利沃夫,敖德萨)。城市的选择可以通过以下事实来解释,即上述城市是在所选国家中访问量最大的城市。这项研究收到了来自乌克兰的107份答复,来自葡萄牙的102份,来自斯洛伐克的101份。采用IBM SPSS软件和MS Excel进行统计分析。可以得出结论,该研究描述了公司的财务状况对其绩效的影响最为显著。此外,存在时间较短的企业表现出更好的社会责任绩效。研究结果对组织的决策者有几个实际意义。结果表明,社会责任理念的采纳程度在很大程度上取决于公司的财务状况。然而,一些社会责任活动在成本方面是中立的。企业可以专注于与其他中小企业的合作、参与社区服务活动、与非营利组织的合作、慈善营的组织、团队建设活动、儿童大师班的组织、资源捐赠和再利用活动。
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