New Articles – Business Administration and Management

Opportunities and challenges for managers within the East-European agriculture sector: Case study on Romania

Violeta Mihaela Dinca, Beatrice Trocinescu, Simona Stamule, Mariana Bunea, Vasile Dinu

Agriculture has always been essential to the development of human society, providing the food necessary for human survival. For the Romanian economy, agriculture is a very important sector in terms of the number of enterprises involved and the agricultural area used, but also because of the workforce employed in the sector. However, Romanian agriculture is a vulnerable sector, which has had to face several unfavourable events in recent years. The COVID-19 pandemic, the energy crisis, the…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-4-008 more

Can executive incentives improve corporate ESG performance? Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Ma Deshui, Wang Guohua, Ahsan Akbar, Muhammad Usman, Marcela Sokolova

This paper examined the driving factors of ESG performance in Chinese listed companies from the perspective of executive motivation and found that: (1) monetary compensation incentives and equity incentives exert a sizeable impact on enhancing corporate ESG performance, and the robustness test results remain unchanged; (2) corporate strategic change and green technology innovation play a mediating role in executive motivation and corporate ESG; (3) the promotion effect of executive monetary…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-4-009 more

Success drivers of equity crowdfunding campaign. Empirical evidence from Poland

Magdalena Swacha-Lech, Robert Kurek

The success factors of equity crowdfunding are already well recognized in the literature but have not previously been studied in Poland. The aim of the paper is to fill the research gap by identifying the determinants of equity crowdfunding success in Poland based on empirical data. The article investigates whether and how entrepreneurs’ conscious use of the non-financial benefits linked to equity crowdfunding (ECF) influences the campaign’s success in Poland. We used data from a survey on the…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-5-024 more

The essence and barriers to the use of controlling in the practice of manufacturing enterprises

Marek Potkany, Hussam Musa, Jarmila Schmidtova, Pavol Gejdos, Janka Grofcikova

The theory, but also examples from practice confirm the fact that the use of controlling in economic practice differs significantly in the context of understanding its essence. The ambiguity of the definition of controlling, two different thought concepts, the diversity of tools and approaches, but also other barriers prevent its use to a greater extent than this managerial approach would deserve. The current research is based on the understanding of the essence of controlling in German…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-5-009 more

Factors influencing career sustainability in Saudi Arabian banks: A PLS-SEM analysis

Musrrat Parveen, Amal Awadh Hadi Alshehri

This research delves into the correlation between organizational career growth and its impact on career sustainability among employees in the Saudi Arabian banking sector. It also explores the mediating influence of task performance and organizational citizenship behavior. Utilizing self-reported online questionnaires, data was collected from employees in Jeddah and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, working in both private and public banks. Approximately 255 surveys were gathered, and thorough scrutiny of…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-5-010 more