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Communication of Global Aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Circular Economy
Authors: Bednárik Jaroslav , Augustínová Natália 
Published: January 2021

Research background: The essence of corporate social responsibility is not new, but its form has changed over the years, as has changed the view on whether it is possible and beneficial to put this idea into practice. CSR concerns economics, corporate management, business ethics, sociology, political science, environmental sciences and many other disciplines and is becoming increasingly popular among the general public. In this context, it is possible to look for connections and links to the circular economy. The circular economy is a sustainable development strategy that creates functional and healthy relationships between nature and human society. It perfectly closes material flows in long-term cycles.
Purpose of the article: The paper aims to point out the possibilities of linking CSR concerning the environmental pillar, with the processes of the circular economy in the global environment through a concrete example.
Methods: To achieve the set goal, published materials of domestic and foreign authors were examined. As part of the in-depth analysis, case studies of selected subjects were examined. Besides, a synthetic-analytical method and an inductive-deductive method were used.
Findings & Value added: The expected result will provide a picture of the possibilities of connecting corporate social responsibility regarding the processes of the circular economy. The findings may lead to a more effective link between CSR and the circular economy.
Modeling horizontal collaboration efficiency of several supply chains
Authors: Galkin Andrii , Kush Yevhen , Roslavtsev Dmytro , Prunenko Dmytro , Lobashov Oleksii 
Published: January 2021

Research background: Economic relations, which are formed under conditions of uncertainty and instability of the surrounding, require highly efficient techniques of engineering logistics activities. The high competitiveness on the logistics market forced to search new technologies that would give advantages over competitors. One of these advantages could be the decreasing of the transport service cost. The logistics activity, with the collaborative management of the complex of transport and logistics systems, is not well understood. The issues of the effectiveness of using various technologies in servicing a complex of logistics systems have not been sufficiently addressed. The effectiveness of horizontal collaboration of individual participants of various logistics systems to achieve common goals has not been fully studied. Lack of an unequivocal scientific justification and relevant practical developments determined the choice of the research topic and its relevance.
Purpose of the article: The aim of the paper is to identify patterns of influence of horizontal collaboration on efficiency of several supply chains.
Methods: The article used modelling of transportation process without horizontal collaboration – traditional one and with it. Invest indicators for assess collaborative and separated effectiveness of several supply chains were used.
Findings & Value added: The use of horizontal collaboration technology leads to a synergistic effect: reducing the total number of vehicles required to service several supply chains; increased performance indicators. The patterns of the influence of technological parameters of the transport process on the effectiveness of horizontal transport collaboration are revealed.
Perceptions and behavior-related intentions of consumers in smartphone-based mobile commerce
Authors: Horga Maria Gabriela , Nica Elvira , Nancu Dumitru 
Published: January 2021

Research background: This article presents an empirical study carried out to evaluate and analyze perceptions and behavior-related intentions of consumers in smartphone-based mobile commerce globally.
Purpose of the article: Building our argument by drawing on data collected from Nielsen and Statista, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding positive and negative aspects of smartphone shopping according to EU mobile shoppers, mobile shopping activities among smartphone and tablet owners, mobile visits to leading retail websites in the U.S., and most popular payment methods for everyday transactions according to Internet users worldwide.
Methods: Data collected from 4,400 respondents are tested against the research model by using structural equation modeling.
Findings & Value added: The sudden advancement of mobile technology has driven numerous retailers to strive and capitalize on smartphones as a supplementary tool in the operation of sales. Smartphone applications as an innovative channel can be carried out in retail marketing mix for the purpose of constituting constructive customer relationships. Consumer use of mobile shopping applications constitutes a thought-provoking difficult task for retailers and application developers. Habit and omnipresence unswervingly shape customers’ purposes and concrete mobile shopping usage behaviors. The browsing extent and rate of recurrence of non-shopping applications clarifies the quantity of shopping software mobile users hold on their smartphones. Product reviews are paramount to users and a manner of gaining information unspecified by the retailer.
The Climate Crisis as a Product of Globalization
Authors: Raftowicz Magdalena 
Published: January 2021

Research background: the processes of globalization have led to an increasing interdependence and integration of states, societies, economies, and cultures, which result in the emergence of one world that produces the same products. However, little do people realize that global products have also a negative influence on the global economy. A clear example is the climate crisis, which can be treated as a product of globalization.
Purpose of the article: therefore, the main aim of the paper is an attempt to answer the question: what is the impact of unlimited globalization processes on the climate crisis. The main hypothesis of the research is that the adoption of a degrowth model can effectively stop the negative effects of the climate crisis, which may lead to a global economic recession in the future. However, this will require inter-state simultaneous cooperation, because no single country can solve the climate problem separately.
Methods: to confirm such a hypothesis, and to formulate the main findings, the method of critical analysis of the literature on climate and economic matters was used.
Findings & Value added: the main added value of the paper is the synthetic forecast of the economic effects caused by global climate change. It may enrich the discussion about the effects of climate change through dissemination and acceptance of scientific knowledge. The negation of this knowledge, still frequently observed in public debates, may delay the implementation of urgent and necessary solutions.
Corporate sustainability: increasing the quality of information in B2B companies’ reporting
Authors: Sycheva Irina , Vakhrushev Igor , Avdeev Yuri , Klochko Elena , Badanin Eduard 
Published: January 2021

Research background: Our research demonstrates that corporate accounting as a rule contains no frames connected with the disclosure of information about operations on digital platforms and indirect taxes on В2В operations, including tax risks.
Purpose of the article: Our research revealed that corporate accounting as a rule contains no frames connected with disclosure of information about operations on digital platforms and indirect taxes on В2В operations, including tax risks. This information can be hidden in some reports, which are usually compiled on the initiative of the company.
Methods: We can select information needs of the users as a starting point of raising sustainability of corporate governance. This is why companies compile different forms of reports containing both financial and non-financial information. Country reports reflect different financial, tax, and other indicators of international groups of companies in the countries, where participants of such groups operate (and, if necessary, explanations). At the same time, methodologically country reports are a chance to establish disproportion between the scope of company operations and the amount of taxes paid in different jurisdictions.
Findings & Value added: Information about indirect taxes and B2B operations is of inconsistent, unstructured character, making its retrospective assessment both for an individual company and as comparative analysis for a group of companies impossible. We see further development of this issue in research of corporate websites and information disclosure centers for structuring and detailing the information of many companies participating in the B2B sector and developing common approaches to information disclosure.
Features of urban agglomerations formation in the system of the Black Sea region
Authors: Azhaman Iryna , Kambur Olha , Pandas Anastasiia , Petryshchenko Nataliia , Serohina Nataliia 
Published: January 2021

Research background: The structure of the urban agglomeration is quite dynamic and requires comprehensive consideration and research. Despite the initial stage - formation, urban agglomerations in the system of the Black Sea region have the characteristics of developed systems. The paper evaluates the starting position of urban agglomerations of the Black Sea region, based on the coefficient of development, coefficient and index of agglomeration. Emphasis is placed on the consideration of urban agglomerations in the context of the recreational component. The vector of development changes from the central areas to the suburban area with the active transformation of the spatial structure. A system of integrated territorial development of urban agglomerations is needed, taking into account their specific spatial components.
Purpose of the article: Research of modern processes that form urban agglomerations. Study of positive and negative effects of agglomeration. Identification of the main factors influencing the agglomeration process of the Black Sea region.
Methods: The following methods were used to solve the problems: analysis, synthesis, systematization, comparison, rating.
Findings & Value added: Development of urban agglomerations of the Black Sea region is planning and coordination of further sustainable development of agglomeration space, including development of plan for construction, planning and coordination of infrastructure construction, search for funding sources. This will intensified investment, give impetus to the development infrastructure, economic environment and recreational component.
Globalization and Bankruptcy of SMEs in Slovakia
Authors: Dado Jaroslav , Hvolkova Lenka , Taborecka Janka 
Published: January 2021

Research background: Globalization - the process of increasing social, cultural, political, and economic interdependence - has resulted in several changes in business environment. Global market opportunities and threats are major effects of globalization; they refer to the increases in market potential, trade and investment potential and resource accessibility. Global market threats refer to the increases in the number and level of competition, and the level of uncertainty. Global competitors can have the impact on bankruptcy of local SMEs in less developed or smaller countries. Are globalization in economics and company bankruptcy related? In the past, the cause of bankruptcy was mainly in the company itself. The development of globalization has brought a number of positive as well as a number of negative consequences for several areas of society. Is one of the negative effects of globalization the bankruptcy of companies?
Purpose of the article: The paper presents a classification of external and internal causes of bankruptcy and indicators of the threat of company bankruptcy. The paper also focuses on the results of the research analysis about the causes of small and medium-sized enterprises mortality in Slovakia and the impact of globalization factors as the causes of their bankruptcy. The analysis of bankruptcies is oriented on the research of the causes of small and medium-sized enterprises mortality in Slovakia and the influence of globalization factors as the causality of their bankruptcy.
Methods: The research sample presents structured interview with 16 SMEs´ owners. They identified more aspects of globalization impact to Slovak SMEs bankruptcy.
Findings & Value added: The results of research indicate that there is an evidence of impact of globalization on the bankruptcy of SMEs in Slovakia, but there are some differences among various industries.
Fiscal policy and oil factor: Evaluation of the effects in global economic development
Authors: Guluzada Tapdig , Guluzada Esmira 
Published: January 2021

Research background:Today, the acceptance of fiscal policy decisions necessitates the analysis of policy efficiency with the help of optimization issues, the study of cause-and-effect relationships between budget expenditures and macroeconomic indicators such as economic growth, revenues, and the evaluation of a number of econometric models among all. The need for these areas makes it important to study and analyze the effects of fiscal policy on the economy, which allows to justify the relevance of the topic of the article.Purpose of the article:The article is devoted to the assessment of the fiscal and economic consequences of changes in oil prices in the world market, as well as the study of the relationship between state budget revenues and government expenditure in Azerbaijan. It was revealed that a 1% increase in oil prices, in the long run, increased Azerbaijan’s GDP by 0.52% and state budget expenditures by 0.88%. The calculations allow to conclude that there is a high correlation between government spending and state budget revenues in Azerbaijan. The obtained result indicates a positive relationship between the aforementioned economic variables.Methods:The most common method of analyzing the possible causal relationship between macroeconomic indicators is the causality test proposed by Granger in 1969. However, from a methodological point of view, the application of this test to study the causal relationship between economic indicators requires these indicators to be stationary. This statistical feature can be violated in the case of the economic indicator having the single root elements. To do this, we tested the Unit root problem of the variable using the Augmented Dickey-Fuller test. Simultaneously, a number of other important features of the evaluated models were tested and the adequacy of the models was confirmed.Findings & Value added: As a result of the research, it was determined that there is a short-term and long-term causal relationship between world oil prices and Azerbaijan’s GDP and state budget expenditures. According to the results, a 1 percent increase in oil prices leads to the increase of the current level of GDP growth in Azerbaijan by 0.20 percent in the short term, and by 0.52 percent in the long term. Parallelly, it was revealed that a 1 percent increase in world oil prices leads to a 0.88 percent increase in Azerbaijan’s state budget expenditures in the long run. The correlation between Azerbaijan’s government expenditures and state budget revenues was analyzed, and a high correlation between these two macroeconomic indicators was identified.
Possible causes of the lowest labor productivity in the European Union
Authors: Ivanov Philip , Usheva Mariana 
Published: January 2021

Research background:Numbery of researches of the world markets, directed the attention to the link between the low labor productivity and the competitiveness of the enterprise. Consequently, low competitiveness on microlevel, leads to similar levels of competitiveness on macrolevel. In particular labor is the main source for added value in different industries. Therefore, everything linked to the effectiveness of the labor is crucial. Workplace motivation is one of the most important aspects of the economic system of enterprises in the global economy. The motivators used on the workplace, could be, and often are, very important in the aspect of effectiveness of the labor. Therefore, examining the mostly used motivators on a workplace, could give very valuable information to theorist and practitioners.Purpose of the study:Showing the ever-worsening problem of, and finding the causes of the low labor productivity in Bulgaria, as a main cause for the low competitiveness on the global markets. Finding the most important motivators according to workers in governmentally owned enterprise.Methods:The methods used in the current research are metanalytical for attestation the labor productivity on national level. Survey among workers, using 5-point Likert scale.Findings & Value added:We describe the most important motivators in a Bulgarian governmentally owned enterprise. Our main finding is related to the link between human motivation and the productivity of the labor.
Innovation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises from the Perspective of Globalization
Authors: Juris Roman , Adamko Peter , Savov Radovan 
Published: January 2021

Research background: The presented paper deals with the support of innovative activities of small and medium enterprises in the Slovak Republic. The topicality of the issue is based on the knowledge that small and medium-sized enterprises can respond quickly and effectively to customer requirements and thus to changes resulting from changes in the market. In the era of globalization, the knowledge economy based on three key factors prevails in developed countries - science and research, the quality of human capital and innovative entrepreneurship, which focuses on creating the conditions for the practical use of knowledge, for projecting it into innovation. The aim of the paper is based on theoretical knowledge, analysis of support for innovative activities of small and medium enterprises by the state in the conditions of the Slovak Republic, their readiness to invest in research and development to propose a streamlining support scheme for small and medium enterprises.
Purpose of the article: The determinant of the future sustainable prosperity of the Slovak Republic, as a small open economy, must be the ability of the economy to respond flexibly to global changes and demand.
Methods: The article we used the method of synthesis, the method of abstraction, the method of generalization, the method of description, explanation.
Findings & Value added: The output of the dissertation is an evaluation of the overall state of current support for innovative activities in small and medium-sized enterprises and a proposal for a possible streamlining of this support from the aspect of entrepreneurs themselves.
Differences in the perception of corporate culture as a motivational tool in the SME sector
Authors: Kmecova Iveta , Tlusty Michal 
Published: January 2021

Research background: The paper points out the differences in the motivation of employees in SMEs in terms of corporate culture as a motivational tool. The primary goal of the paper is to draw conclusions from hypotheses that analyse corporate culture as a motivational tool. Literary research outlines the issue of personnel activities focusing on the corporate culture as a motivational tool for SMEs in the Czech Republic. The practical part of the paper shows the whole course of specific calculations and evaluation of established hypotheses. At the end of the solution of each hypothesis, its rejection or confirmation is displayed, and this is justified by other methods that confirm this decision.
Purpose of the article: The main purpose of the article is to confirm or reject predetermined hypotheses concerning small and medium-sized enterprises. A specific evaluation of the hypotheses will help to raise the profile of possible problems of small and medium-sized enterprises in the areas of employee motivation.
Methods: Primary data for this article were obtained using an online questionnaire. The data are evaluated using a statistical method comparing the mean values of the samples, specifically using a statistical one-sample test. The research sample consisted of a total of 220 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Czech Republic.
Findings & Value added: The results of the research will confirm or not confirm whether corporate culture is an important motivating tool for small and medium-sized enterprises and whether or not it differs depending on the division of enterprises according to different scales.
Assessment of the Impact of Globalization on the Development of the Russian Transport System
Authors: Podsorin Victor , Ovsiannikova Elena 
Published: January 2021

Research background: The article describes the main trends in the globalization of economic processes, analyses the economic situation of world commodity markets, considers factors that influence the development of the transport system of Russia, defines the transport component in the cost of bulk cargo transported by Russian railways, presents a conceptual model of its formation for the purpose of improving tariff policy and competitiveness. A study of the dynamics of market conditions helps to identify factors that increase the efficiency of interaction between cargo-forming enterprises and organizations with the transport complex, develop and justify a system of measures to increase the efficiency of the transport system and ensure the sustainability of the national economy, as well as identify factors that contribute to globalization and the integration of production processes of transnational structures into the world economic system.
Purpose of the article: To develop a methodological approach to assessing the impact of global commodity markets in the context of the globalization of economic processes on the development of the transport system of Russia.
Methods: Analysis, classification, deduction, economic and mathematical modelling.
Findings & Value added: The developed conceptual model for assessing the impact of global commodity markets in the context of the globalization of economic processes on the development of the country’s transport system contributes to the improvement of the tariff policy in the field of freight transportation, creates favourable conditions for increasing freight volumes for both transit and export-import cargoes.
Global Trend of Regional Policy Greening as a Factor of Social and Economic Growth of Regions in the Russian Federation
Authors: Popova Anna , Rudenko Marina 
Published: January 2021

Research background: Sustainable development, social and economic growth not damaging the natural environment are one of the most acute problems in the modern world. The issues of the regional sustainable development in the Russian Federation as the purpose of regional policy and aspects of correlation between socio-economic development and state of regional environment were discussed in scientific papers of D.V. Novachenko, D.V. Malova, O.K. Tsapieva, L.V. Shchukina, E.A. Khrabrova, O.V. Vilchinskoy, Yu.G. Neudakhina, A.V., Okuneva, Boronnikov, D.V., E.A. Guseva, D.A., N.N. Yashalova, N.L. Yatsukova, A. Yu. Davankova, L.K., Kazantseva, T.O. Tagaeva, M.F. Zamyatina, P.V. Druzhinin, G.T. Shkiperova, O.V. Potasheva, A.A. Bashirova and others.
Purpose of the article: The purpose of this article is to develop measures to improve socio-economic growth in regions on the base of theoretical and methodological substantiation of greening regional policy.
Methods: Systematic approach, methods of analysis and synthesis, logical and econometric modelling were used in this research.
Findings & Value added: The necessity of including the environmental component in the regional policy structure was approved; the process of regional policy greening was determined; the author’s methodical approach to evaluate the performance of regional policy greening was elaborated; positive changes in social and economic growth were identified with the intensification of regional policy greening; by the example of Perm Krai measures to promote the regional policy greening performance were developed.