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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

Determinants of the impact of ESG policy and corporate governance on employee rights

Chiao-Ming Li, Joe-Ming Lee

To comply with international development trends in recent years, Taiwanese government agencies have formulated environmental, social, and governance (ESG) legal policies and strengthened publicity for listed firms to prepare sustainability reports. Government agencies are trying to use ESG legal policies to gradually guide firms to take environmental, social, and governance measures and move toward sustainable operations. However, employee rights were easier for firms to ignore in the past, so…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-1-007 more

DuPont analysis among European dentistry companies to measure the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Tomas Heryan, Karin Gajdova

Although health economics belongs to the highly respected economic disciplines within the research literature, there is a considerable gap related to the investigation of dentistry in particular, even after the global pandemic of COVID-19 disease. Fundamentally, the DuPont framework is a well-known complex analysis to evaluate companies from the point of view of financial performance. The investigation of the return on equity as a relation between the return on assets and the equity multiplier,…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-1-010 more

Educational attainment as a predictor of poverty and social exclusion: Empirical analysis of Serbian case

Marija Dzunic, Natasa Golubovic, Vesna Jankovic-Milic

This study examines the impact of education on the risk of poverty and social exclusion in a single-country framework. Relying on household and individual level data from the annual EU-SILC survey obtained in Serbia in 2020, we estimate the market and non-market benefits of education in the context of combating poverty and social exclusion in developing countries. Based on a representative sample of the adult population in Serbia, we explore to what extent the risk of poverty and social…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-1-003 more

Examining climate change awareness and climate-friendly activities of urban residents: A case study in Košice

Veronika Toth, Miriam Sebova

As the impact of climate change begins to be felt all around the world, the vulnerability of urban areas due to their population density, high concentration of economic activities and the altered characteristics of the physical environment is becoming increasingly apparent. As a result, cities will play a crucial role in tackling climate change by fostering mitigation activities and managing and coordinating the adaptation process. Research has shown that engagement and awareness among citizens…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-1-002 more