New Articles – Business Administration and Management

Effectiveness factors of small and medium-sized enterprises from the perspective of corporate culture: A case study in Slovakia

Silvia Lorincova, Milos Hitka, Jozef Durian, Daniel Rauser

To reach business success, a company can use and manage a lot of seemingly inconspicuous and useful tools. One of them is corporate culture. The purpose of the paper is to define the factors that affect business efficiency from the perspective of corporate culture. The Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) was used. For data analysis, the Beta regression method, inductive statistics, and Tukey’s test were used. Based on the research results, it can be stated that there are…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-1-009 more

Exploring the relationship between failure-learning-based entrepreneurship education and youth entrepreneurial resilience: A mediated moderation model

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 entreprene…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2023-5-001 more

Managing intellectuals: Reaping the most and the best of knowledge workers in the post-COVID world

Arzu Atan, Tarik Atan

The COVID-19 crisis forced massive changes in work practices, channeling most of the activities to digital/remote work paradigms almost overnight. In this post-COVID locked-in world, traditional top-down control and command mechanisms simply ceased to exist. Profoundly different approaches and understandings became necessary to reap the most and the best outcomes from workers. In this new paradigm, cultivating organisational citizenship behaviors might be the most – if not only – viable way to…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2023-4-003 more

The role of crisis management in organisations functioning in COVID-19 pandemic conditions

Agnieszka Bienkowska, Katarzyna Tworek, Anna Zablocka-Kluczka, Joanna Zimmer

The purpose of the paper is to analyse the influence of crisis management on job performance as well as indicate a mechanism, which supports such influence. The theoretical model was proposed based on a literature review, showing the role of organisational trust, organisational communication, knowledge sharing, job security and openness to change in shaping job performance by crisis management among organisations operating under COVID-19 pandemic conditions. The model was empirically verified…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2023-4-005 more

Gamification in management: Positive and negative aspects

Tomas Kačerauskas, Živilė Sederevičiūtė-Pačiauskienė, Jolita Šliogerienė

The phenomenon of gamification is analysed, identifying positive aspects of gamification, risks and problems. The paper adopts a method of systematic critical literature analysis in English, German, and Russian. We provide the most relevant gamification definitions classified into two main groups, fundamental and practical. The confusion of these groups or ignorance of one causes particular problems in understanding gamification. We face two levels of gamification in different areas of business…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2023-4-006 more