Model of Enterpreneurship and Social-cultural and Market Orientation of Small Business Owners in Poland

In the development of SMEs in Poland crucial meaning is legislation, steadily adapted to EU regulations, especially to the European Charter for Small Enterprises. Research conducted in Poland by many authors provide data for doing so, to confirm the hypothesis that among small businesses a vital role in shaping their work situation did not continue to play the market mechanisms and orientations, but mainly socio-cultural factors.W rozwoju MŚP w Polsce podstawowe znaczenie mają również uregulowania prawne, systematycznie dostosowywane do regulacji unijnych, zwłaszcza zaś do Europejskiej Karty Małych Przedsiębiorstw. Badania prowadzone w Polsce przez wielu autorów dostarczają danych ku temu, by potwierdzić tezę, że wśród drobnych przedsiębiorców decydującą rolę w kształtowaniu ich sytuacji pracy odgrywają nadal nie mechanizmy i orientacje rynkowe, ale przede wszystkim czynniki społeczno-kulturowe

Development of High Technologies as an Indicator of Modern Industry in the Eu

The article tries to classify the EU states in terms of the advancement of structural changes in their industries on the basis of the increase in the share of advanced technologies in total industrial production, labour, added value, and surplus. In the times of the knowledge-based economy the ability to produce high-tech goods, the demand for which is growing much faster than for traditional goods, indicates the level of modernity of industry. The dynamic growth of the demand for knowledge-based high-tech goods results from the evolution of consumer habits, which are predominantly driven by educated and rich societies who demand that their sophisticated needs met. An important role in stimulating this demand is played by modern media as they instantly deliver information on the latest technical developments and are very efficient in transferring patterns of consumerism. The ability to adapt the structure of production to the needs of the market is crucial in defining a state's position in the international exchange of goods. This is due to the fact that the national technology is tightly interwoven with export abilities

Information technology and organizational creativity. A dynamic capabilities perspective

Celem artykułu jest zidentyfikowanie zależności pomiędzy twórczością organizacyjną, technologią informacyjną i efektywnością organizacyjną. Realizacja tak sformułowanego celu badawczego wymagała przeprowadzenia rozważań dotyczących przede wszystkim cyfrowej strategii biznesu jako źródła efektywności organizacyjnej oraz dynamicznych zdolności organizacji w kontekście twórczości organizacyjnej i IT. To z kolei dało asumpt do zaproponowania konceptualnego modelu wspomagania twórczości organizacyjnej z udziałem IT. W artykule zapoczątkowujemy dyskusję naukową na temat celowości oraz możliwości komputerowego wspomagania twórczości organizacyjnej.The main purpose of this paper is to identify some links between organizational creativity, information technology and organizational performance. To address this purpose, such topics like: digital business strategy, dynamic capabilities of an organization and information technology were discussed. The result of this study is a proposal of a conceptual framework for IT-based organizational creativity support. This study starts a research debate on the desirability and possibilities of computer organizational creativity support

Framework of orgnizational creativity computer support

The main purpose of the paper is to provide the framework for organizational creativity computer support. Our considerations [Bratnicki, Kisielnicki, Olszak 2014] on the issue of organizational creativity have resulted to the integration of two research areas: organizational creativity (from the strategic perspective and dynamic capabilities) and ICT. Consequently, we have proposed the holistic concept of organizational creativity computer support. To create it, Hevner et al. [2004] design-science research guidelines were used

Contemporary thinking about theory building: a review of the concept with application to organisational politics researching

This article contributes to the rapidly growing body of literature regarding general good theory building practices with regard to organisational politics. The results of the review revealed and highlighted five core components of contemporary thinking about theory building: constrained comprehending, conjunctive theorising, theorising styles, pragmatic-empirical approach, and science-practice gap. Tying together those insights, the authors have developed a framework to distinguish a specific set of recommendations which clarify and organise theoretical foundations of organisational politics researching: cooperation of academics and managers, requisite complexity, contextualisation, versatility, and process perspective. In the authors' opinion, this provides a substantial opportunity for theoretical advancement through a careful methodological application

Organizational creativity and ICT as a new perspective for management in organization

The main purpose of the paper is to identify the new emerging perspective on management – an organizational creativity and its computer support. We have investigated the organizational creativity issue from the strategic research base view and proposed to explain the organizational creativity as a dynamic capabilities of an organization. They mean the adoption for changing environment through acquiring new resources and creating new configurations from them. Our considerations have given an assumption for the identification the role of ICT in organizational creativity computer support, as well as the research gap in this area

The positive keys to gazelles' success: empirical evidence

The paper attempts to investigate what kind of positive traits and characteristics are possessed by highperforming SMEs and how are they used to achieve high performance. The study is built on two main areas of knowledge: positive organisational scholarship (POS) and high performance organisation (HPO). The model of positive characteristics of high performing SMEs based on theory of organisational fit is used. For each of components of organisational design positive characteristics leading to high performance are attributed. Those characteristics are put into research along with multidimensional objective and subjective measures of organisational performance. Research methods used is data envelopment analysis (DEA). Each of investigated companies has a different profile of both performance and positive characteristics. Performance profiles vary from focus on short-term performance to focus on growth, however all subjective measures are high and all firms managed to balance long- and short-term performance. Among input characteristics clear vision, committed leadership and flexible structure are common for entire group, other traits are also used in various patterns