Little light has been shed on the functioning of business in potential post-growth economies. With this paper, we aim to expand discussions on post-growth economies to the company level and suggest one possible way to connect existing management practise with the fact that, in order to stay...

Whenever there is a crisis in the corporate world or the economy more generally, the same questions continue to surface: What is the purpose of a corporation? Is the purpose of a corporation simply to make money? Or do they have a broader role in society? Do corporations also have a social...

The Internet has made it relatively easy to start a new business. It is now possible to go after target markets that are extremely small. Resonance marketing can enable a small business to find new market niches and charge premium prices. The advantages of using resonance marketing to target...

This article discusses the chances and vulnerabilities of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on two main levels: the small and medium sector at a local level; and big corporations at the macro and international levels. The modern understanding of the definition of CSR is also analyzed. This...

Locally owned, northern SMEs often find themselves working out of and in small communities in sparsely populated regions. Using a constructive research design and semi-structured interviews with SMEs from Northern Finland, Norway and Iceland this study highlights the relationship between the...

Wie wird in KMU, die eine Reform ihrer betrieblichen Partizipationsstrukturen als Antwort auf die wirtschaftliche Strukturkrise planen, waehrend einer Akutkrise mit Blick auf diese Reform und auf die betriebliche Partizipation reagiert? Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht diese Frage anhand von...

If small companies currently seem less sensitive than the large ones to the stakes of sustainable development, they could however, taking into account their number, be an important vector of expansion of the practices, in particular in the environmental field. More and more tools and specific...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the scope for international private standards to play a role in reducing business risk. Business risk is measured as variability in revenue, customer base, informal payments, and temporary firm closure. The results show lower levels of business risk...

Die schwere Wirtschaftskrise 2008/09 hatte substanzielle Auswirkungen auf die Innovationstätigkeit der deutschen Wirtschaft. Die Umsatz- und Gewinneinbußen führten zu einem kräftigen Rückgang der Innovationsausgaben. Davon waren primär Investitionen für neue Produkte und verbesserte...

Human capital plays an important role in the development of every company. Big enterprises have a Human Resources Department which conducts analyses and measurements of human capital. In Poland over 90% of the total number of companies is made up of small and middle- size enterprises. The aim of...