Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.15240/tul/001/2023-1-007
A. Janowski, O. Gonchar, Ruslan Yakovyshyn
The complexity of issues related to entrepreneurial activity is reflected in the discourse in the world of economic sciences that has been continuing for over 200 years. Nowadays, the development of organizational management environment is more and more extensive and, as well as in other highly developed countries, the sector of small and medium-sized enterprises in Poland plays a fundamental role in the economy. Yet, there are rising concerns towards the entrepreneurial education direction in world of science. The growing concern in the context of entrepreneurship education has caused a discourse on whether this scholar activity can affect the entrepreneurial effectiveness in practice. We conclude that the contemporary academic management papers are, in a vast majority, focused on theoretical aspects of entrepreneurship, students, granted programs and trainings, while the opinions of real entrepreneurs toward abovementioned valuable efforts are omitted. Therefore, we decided to explore practical entrepreneurial environment to address this gap. The research participants included 189 entrepreneurs (SMEs based) that had been operating continuously for minimum 20 years. We established three objectives of this paper: to analyze the relation between the individual level of education, its characteristics and entrepreneurial success; to evaluate the state educational support in real world entrepreneurial operations effectiveness; to identify educational opportunities and threats and estimate the future research trajectories in this area. Finally, the first attempt, in the world of science, was undertaken to verify whether there is a positive correlation between entrepreneurship teaching and its real effect on entrepreneurship in practice. We empirically prove that the (higher) education can be an obstacle on the path of entrepreneurial success. Additionally, conclusions establish a new perspective on the existing state of knowledge through constructing a bridge which will enable connecting academic efforts and expectations on the part of firm owners.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.15240/tul/001/2023-1-011
Radka Bauerová, H. Starzyczná, Š. Zapletalová
The acceleration of the digitalisation of grocery shopping is an important trend that shows that this way of sourcing groceries is increasingly accepted by customers. Uncovering, understanding, and describing the differences between online grocery shoppers is interesting from a scientific point of view and a practical one. Correctly targeting a specific customer segment increases the very effectiveness of marketing communication by spending the cost of communicating with those correctly targeted customers that are valuable to the company. Therefore, this paper explores the behaviour of customers when shopping online and tries to find similarities in this behaviour. The aim of the paper is to generate customer segments of online grocery shoppers that provide a more comprehensive insight by reflecting on their shopping behaviour, personality traits and characteristics, loyalty, overall satisfaction with online grocery shopping in the current retailer, and frequency of social media usage. An online questionnaire survey was conducted with a panel of respondents from the IPSOS research agency to obtain primary data. Data were analysed using factor and cluster analysis. These analyses resulted in the creation of a segmentation that identified five main segments of online grocery shoppers. The constructed combined segmentation divides shoppers into five segments: quality-oriented shoppers (18.9%), influential utilitarians (21.7%), loyal traditionalists (16.4%), satisfied conditional loyalists (14.9%), and movable eco-sympathizers (28.1%). Then these category types are characterised in terms of their most salient characteristics. The results of this study show the variables that influence customers in their decision-making process. Outcomes increase knowledge about online grocery shopping behaviour, motives, and purchase requirements. These are also beneficial for grocery retailers for better targeting or fostering loyalty.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.15240/tul/001/2023-1-003
Denisa Kočanová, Viliam Kováč, Vitaliy Serzhanov, J. Buleca
Population ageing is a demographic issue that emphasises the need to be interested in the lives of the most vulnerable population group: the elderly population. The paper investigates the ageing process and their relations among the European Union member countries from 2009 to 2019. These countries are assessed and dispersed to the appropriate clusters according to several indicators related to the areas that affect the lives of the elderly population: namely, the health status, the labour market conditions, and financial security. The focus is on the age group 55 years and over as it is a disadvantaged age group in the job application process regarding ageing society. It is a significant aspect of public finance system. The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, the Labour Force Survey, and the European System of Integrated Social Protection Statistics data are involved. The quantitative approaches are applied in the cluster analysis and followed by the panel data linear regression analysis. The dendrograms visualise the three clusters representing the mutual relations and the ageing patterns among the explored countries. The heat maps are created to prove the potential relations among the observed countries. The panel regression model demonstrates that the three variables – part-time employment, the income inequality, and the material and social deprivation – are statistically significant in all the regression models for the whole area and the three clusters. The analytical outcome could be applied as a valuable resource to government and national representatives. It can help identify the objectionable determinants for a custom policy and implement appropriate measures to improve the situation of the elderly population.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.15240/tul/001/2023-3-001
Iuliana Claudia Stoian (Bobalca), Raluca Irina Clipa, Mihaela Ifrim, Anca Elena Lungu
The objective of sustainable development cannot leave aside the relevance of short-term benefits, long-term negative externalities, and opportunity costs of actions implied by the complex relation economy-society-environment. The transition to a green economy cannot be based exclusively on win-win solutions for all involved parties but requires taking into consideration potential trade-offs between several objectives. The EU strategy for achieving sustainable development and energy security is materialised in the project European Green Deal, which sets courageous goals. Our paper groups the advantages and disadvantages of EGD policies, using exploratory and descriptive research. In this context, we analyse, based on interviews and a questionnaire, the perception of students who have taken Economics courses and are familiar with the topics of externalities and economic policies in relation to the challenges posed by the European Green Deal. While the initiators of this project expect the increase of energy efficiency of the EU states, the encouragement of cleaner industrial activities, the reduction of pollution and of other threats related to global warming, and assuring a more sustainable future for the European economy, the main concerns are related to social costs and loss of European companies’ competitiveness. Our findings identified some costs regarding international transactions’ financial aspects and competition, while the main benefits were related to environmental protection. Policy implications of this study refer to a more rigorous configuration of policy measures, through expanding the studies regarding the perception of the energy policy, for a wider and better public understanding and acceptance of its benefits and implications.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.15240/tul/001/2023-5-001
Pengju Wang, Zhuang Xiong, Zhiquan Zhao
Entrepreneurial failure exists objectively in the process of entrepreneurship, and the fear of entrepreneurship failure inhibits youth entrepreneurship activities to a certain extent. Thus, failure-learning-based entrepreneurship education is critical to cultivating youth entrepreneurial literacy. However, previous research on this topic has not provided a clear answer to how to improve youth entrepreneurial resilience. To explore the relationship between failure-learning-based entrepreneurship education and youth entrepreneurial resilience, using the questionnaire data of 399 youth recruited from China in October 2021 via the Credamo platform, the multiple regression analysis, and the Bootstrap method, we empirically analyzed the impact of failure-learning-based entrepreneurship education on youth entrepreneurial resilience, as well as the mediating effect of entrepreneurial cognition and the moderating effect of the fault-tolerant environment on the above relationship. The results show that failure-learning-based entrepreneurship education has a significant positive impact on youth entrepreneurial resilience. The two dimensions of willingness cognition and ability cognition in entrepreneurial cognition have a complete mediating effect on the impact of failure-learning-based entrepreneurship education on youth entrepreneurial resilience while the mediating effect of arrangements cognition is not significant. The fault-tolerant environment positively moderates the impact of failure-learning-based entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial resilience, and its moderating effect is transmitted through the mediating effect of willingness cognition and ability cognition. A strong fault-tolerant environment enhances the impact of failure-learning-based entrepreneurship education on the formation of youth rational cognition, through the mediating effect of willing cognition and ability cognition, which further strengthens the positive impact on youth entrepreneurial resilience. The findings enrich the body of knowledge on entrepreneurship education and can improve youth entrepreneurial resilience.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.15240/tul/001/2023-5-002
Robert Stefko, Beata Gavurova, Maria Olearova, Radovan Bacik, Lubomir Nebesky
Although the popularity of mobile commerce is on the rise, mobile shopping is still not widely accepted in Slovakia. Therefore, research and knowledge in this area is insufficient. Based on two research models which explain human behavior (theory of reasoned action) and how the user accepts new technologies (technology acceptance model), the presented study proposes and tests a conceptual model combining the mentioned models and new, stimulating factors (customized offers and price benefits) in order to design a holistic model for predicting consumer behavior with regard to the acceptance of mobile shopping. In the first step of the research, we used exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to extract the predicted factors and verify the validity and reliability of the research tool – a questionnaire. The main research was conducted on a sample of 627 students from Slovak universities (part-time study). Using the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), we performed a measurement model evaluation, and then, using the structural equation modeling – partial least squares (SEM – PLS) method, we evaluated and quantified the expected effects of the investigated factors. These new, stimulating factors, integrated into the theoretical framework of existing models, have been shown to act as direct and indirect predictors of the intention to mobile shopping. However, perceived usefulness proved to be the strongest predictor. The intention to mobile shopping is also significantly influenced by the attitude to mobile shopping, which is also determined by the new factor customized offers. The results the research arrives at may be beneficial for businesses, as they may reduce the costs associated with the creation of mobile shopping channels from an economic point of view and may increase their market competitiveness.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.15240/tul/001/2022-4-002
V. Pacáková, V. Labudová, Ľ. Sipková
The article contains the results of empirical analysis of data on one percent of employees with the highest salaries in the Slovak Republic in 2020. The starting point for the analysis there is 11,570 anonymized individual values of average gross monthly wage and also personal data of the employees whose wage exceeded the 99th percentile of the sample survey The Informational System on Labour Costs, implemented in the Slovak Republic since 1992 by the company Trexima Bratislava. The aim of the article is to assess the gender pay gap for the best-earning men and women and assess the significance of the impact of selected factors that contribute it. Given the availability of data the monitored factors of the gender pay gap there are education, region of residence, the type of occupation, and the categorized age of employees. To achieve the objective, selected quantitative methods were used, namely methods of descriptive statistics and statistical inference, as goodness-of-fit tests, chi-squared tests of independence and machine learning methods, as normalized Shannon entropy and regression decision tree models. The results of analyses by these methods have been preferably presented in a graphical form. Based on the application of the above methods the significant wage differences by gender at the highest wages (over the 99th percentile of the sample) and significant impact of monitored factors has been confirmed not only on the gender pay gap, but also on the structure of their employment. The results of the analyses lead to the conclusion that the significant wage differences by gender at the highest wages are caused precisely by unequal representation of men and women on the different levels of the monitored factors. The obtained results are partially compared with the results of a similar analysis based on data from 2010 (Pacáková et al., 2012).
这篇文章包含了对斯洛伐克共和国2020年工资最高的1%员工的数据进行实证分析的结果。分析的起点是11,570个匿名的个人平均月毛工资值，以及工资超过抽样调查的第99百分位的员工的个人数据。劳动成本信息系统自1992年以来由Trexima Bratislava公司在斯洛伐克共和国实施。本文的目的是评估收入最高的男性和女性的性别薪酬差距，并评估造成这种差距的选定因素的影响的重要性。鉴于数据的可用性，监测的性别工资差距因素有教育程度、居住地区、职业类型和雇员的分类年龄。为了实现这一目标，选择了定量方法，即描述性统计和统计推断方法，如拟合优度检验、独立性的卡方检验和机器学习方法，如归一化香农熵和回归决策树模型。这些方法的分析结果最好以图形形式表示。基于上述方法的应用，最高工资(超过样本的第99百分位)的显著性别工资差异和监测因素的显著影响已经得到证实，不仅对性别工资差距，而且对其就业结构。分析的结果得出的结论是，在最高工资水平上，男女之间的显著工资差异恰恰是由于男女在监测因素的不同层次上的代表性不平等造成的。将获得的结果与基于2010年数据的类似分析结果进行部分比较(Pacáková et al.， 2012)。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.15240/tul/001/2022-4-003
P. Li, Huiying Fu, Yue-Tan Li
With the advent of the information age and the development of network technology, the digital economy with digital knowledge and information as crucial production factors has become the core driving force for high-quality green economic and social development. This paper took the exploration of the role of the digital economy as an engine for regional green and high-quality development as the purpose of the study, incorporates the core industry agglomeration of the digital economy into the analysis framework of green total factor productivity (GTFP), depicted the characteristics of GTFP change from the dual dimensions of direct and indirect effects, and analyzed the spatial effects of specialized and diversified digital economy’s core industry agglomeration on the impact of GTFP using data and spatial measurement models of 25 provincial-level regions in China from 2003 to 2019. Results show that both the specialized digital economy’s core industry agglomeration and the diversified digital economy’s core industry agglomeration can significantly improve GTFP, and both have significant spatial spillover effects. At the same time, the impact of the digital economy’s core industry agglomeration on GTFP is spatial heterogeneity. GTFP in the eastern region can be significantly enhanced by the digital economy’s core industry agglomeration, and the specialized digital economy’s core industry agglomeration has a significant negative spillover effect on GTFP in the eastern region. In the contrast, GTFP in the mid-western region can be significantly enhanced only by the specialized digital economy’s core industry agglomeration, and the digital economy’s core industry agglomeration has no significant spatial spillover effect on GTFP in the mid-western region. The obtained conclusions reveal that each region should reasonably establish a cluster model of core industries in the digital economy to facilitate the green development of the regional economy.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.15240/tul/001/2022-4-009
P. Tulsi, W. Li, Y. Kim
Tourism has a substantial environmental impact, and nature-based tourism is particularly vulnerable to tourists’ activities. Individuals must be aware of the consequential ecological effects during nature-based tourism activities such as trekking. Trekking is a widespread nature-based tourism activity in fragile mountainous and hilly regions. The trekkers’ activities extensively affect the conservation of vegetation along the trail. Therefore, it is essential to study trekkers’ attitudes, intentions, and behavior towards the environment. The objective of this study is to investigate the pro-environmental behaviors of trekkers. The goal-directed behavior (MGB) model framework and a new ecological paradigm scale (NEP) were integrated to examine trekkers’ environmental decision-making process. The new ecological paradigm (NEP) scale measured trekkers’ environmental concerns, whereas the model of goal-directed behavior (MGB) explored environmentally friendly trekking intentions. The extended model analyzed 310 responses from trekkers who had trekking experience in Nepal. Statistical analyses, such as confirmatory factor analysis, descriptive analysis, reliability, and validity test, were performed with SPSS 24.0. Furthermore, structural equation modeling was conducted using AMOS 22.0 to test the significance of the developed hypotheses. This study revealed that trekkers are concerned about the environment and are aware of the earth’s resource limitations. Moreover, the significant role of emotion in the decision-making process was identified. The perceived behavioral control influenced both the desire and intention of environmentally friendly trekking. Additionally, desire significantly influenced the intention to perform environmentally friendly activities. However, the trekker’s attitude and subjective norms did not correlate substantially with desire. The obtained results indicate that the proposed extended model helps to understand the environmental behavior of trekkers. The theoretical and practical implications of this study are also discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.15240/tul/001/2022-4-005
Z. Dvořáková Líšková, Nikola Sagapova, Roman Buchtele
Brownfields and greenfields are examples of areas that report partial, however rather significant changes in the spatial organization of localities of economic and sometimes social changes. A large part of them emerged in areas originally used for industrial production and other economic activities, including former agricultural primary production. In the case of investor interest and with the support of the public sector, they can be transformed back into an area of growth and prosperity; which is discussed as the main motivation for writing the paper. The cost of reusing of such areas is in many cases very high and it is therefore necessary to find a suitable methodological tool to assess the suitability of revitalization and cultivation. The paper presents a newly proposed method for evaluating brownfields and greenfields in terms of their value potential and the way they can be further effectively utilised. Practical verification of the method was carried out at two localities (a brownfield in the village of Želeč and a greenfield in the village of Vidov) from the South Bohemian Region. Both test sites were comparable in terms of their possible future use (e.g., housing, civic amenities, greening). The potential of the tested sites was determined by means of the preference index and the most effective solutions for both areas of interest were proposed. Both localities could be interesting for investors, entrepreneurs and people with higher income. The obtained results demonstrate the suitability of the proposed method for the evaluation and decision-making on the further use of brownfields and greenfields in the Czech Republic.
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