Family Life – between Charism and Institution. Signalling Multidimensionality and Complexity of Human Interactions for Business Institutions and Society

This paper analyses the complexity of family life, which includes both its charismatic and institutional aspects. Deepening the understanding of this basic social group can be useful in explaining how human beings in their decisions and actions, as well as organizations, unceasingly transcend different oppositions and dimensions. Undertaking this topic is not only important in the context of understanding the fundamental and complex experience of family life in the process of preparing and introducing new members to society, but also from the organizational perspective. It means that exploring the role of both dimensions – charismatic and institutional – which are somehow complementary, is crucial for understanding and harmonizing the different relationships and interactions within organizations, including business ones. In this way the article shows the connection between the functioning of the family and society (including organizations within it)

Culture Clash: Symbolic Capital and the Limits to Open Access Journal Growth in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Each year brings more open access peer-review journals to the humanities and social sciences. Yet despite this proliferation, for-profit publishers continue to dominate, and hold the most prestigious journals in their portfolios, pushing the tipping point imagined by open access advocates seemingly out of reach. This project examines the social life of academic publishing to better understand the obstacles preventing a more robust turn to open access, one that does not simply mean more journals, but one that sees the more prestigious journals opting for an open access platform. Drawing on the work of cultural sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, I examine social relations in the cultures of academic authors and open access advocates. While attention has been directed toward the importance of social status acquisition in the humanities and social sciences, I argue, open access initiatives too often fail to take this research into account, and, as a result, underestimate the durability of the social structures influencing author decisions when calling for a culture change in academic publishing. I also examines the culture of open access initiatives, to show how the composition of symbolic value within these projects can, at times, come to detract from the invitation they hope to extend to academia. Against a tendency to see academic publishing platforms as culture-less enterprises, I argue for a more reflexive approach, one that takes into account how contested conceptions of symbolic and cultural capital influence the decisions of authors and open access publishers. I conclude with a discussion possible changes to open access publishing, changes which may jump start the open access movement in the humanities and social sciences

INVENTORY AND RISK MANAGEMENT: DECREASING DELIVERY RISK OF PURCHASERS

The basic financial purpose of an enterprise is maximization of its value. Inventory management should also contribute to realization of this fundamental aim. The enterprise value maximization strategy is executed with a focus on risk and uncertainty. This article presents the consequences for the recipients firm that can result from operating risk that is related to delivery risk generated by the suppliers. The present article offers a method that uses portfolio management theory to choose the suppliers.Corporate liquidity, firm value, delivery risk

Decreasing negative the delivery risk influence on the recepient's firm value: Portfolio approach

The basic financial purpose of an enterprise is maximization of its value. Inventory management should also contribute to realization of this fundamental aim. The enterprise value maximization strategy is executed with a focus on risk and uncertainty. This article presents the consequences for the recipients firm that can result from operating risk that is related to delivery risk generated by the suppliers. The present article offers a method that uses portfolio management theory to chose the suppliersCorporate liquidity, firm value, delivery risk

Debt & equity costs determinants in small enterprise. JEREMIE fund influence on financial situation of SME

From financial perspective, the JEREMIE fund initiative is profitable and enhances the functioning of micro and small enterprises. Particularly profitable are aspects connected with providing these enterprises with equity capital (i.e. Business Angels, Venture Capital) as well as with the theoretical possibilities connected with reducing the financial risk by over regional institution guarantees (less vulnerable to potential risks occurring in the native region of the micro enterprises engaged in JEREMIE).capital cost, target capital structure, micro and small enterprises