"ETHICS BY MOVIE". AN ALTERNATIVE ETHICS TRAINING METHOD FOR FUTURE PROFESSIONALS. A PILOT STUDY AMONG ROMANIAN STUDENTS

Author(s): Daniela-Tatiana Agheorghiesei,Vladimir Poroch / Language(s): English / Issue: 53/2016

The paper presents the results of an empirical research that explored the opinion of Romanian students from four different professional Master’s Degree programs, on the impact of applying the method that we have called “Ethics by Movie” (creating the students’ own video scenarios on an ethical topic in teams) on substantiating ethical knowledge, ethical attitude and ethical behavior. The final sample consisted of 395 respondents. The students appreciate several advantages of the above mentioned teaching and learning method (”an ideal practice for understanding a theoretical concept”, ”an interactive method of learning” that helped them ”to acquire ethical concepts more easily or to reflect more deeply on the importance which must be given to ethical behavior, on the consequences of unethical behavior”, etc). Our study might prove to be useful due to the fact that it revives attention to a complementary teaching method that can contribute to increasing awareness of the ethical issues around us, to learning ethical concepts in a more substantiated manner, to the need to solve the ethical dilemmas related to the fact that we must be solidarity in the fight against unethical actions and that, through everything we do, we can send out own ethical message.

15th International Scientific Conference “Business Logistics in Modern Management”

Author(s): Jelena Franjković / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

20 години паричен съвет в България - ефект върху макроикономическото състояние на страната и бъдещи перспективи

Author(s): Elena Spasova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2017

The currency board system that has been introduced and sustained in Bulgaria since 1997 is assessed on the basis of its impact on the macroeconomic conditions in the country. The assessment is founded on the theoretical advancements on the topic and on the empirical observations on the role of the currency board in Bulgaria when macroeconomic crises and external shocks occur. The conclusions for the procyclical and conservative nature of the system are the basis of development of three scenarios for the future of the currency board in Bulgaria – a realistic, an optimistic and a pessimistic one. The main prerequisites for their implementation are outlined. The associated risks are stated.

36th Osijek - Pforzheim Symposium Review

Author(s): Ana Pap / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

4D Printing as an Innovative Technology for Creating Agile, Shape Morphing Products Meeting Individual User Needs

Author(s): Łukasz Wiechetek,Arkadiusz Gola / Language(s): English / Issue: 12.1/2019

3D printing is a quite popular technology, frequently used to create unique threedimensional objects. It has many areas of application: architecture, marketing, art, fashion music, but also marketing and business. In marketing and business, it is mostly used for increasing effectiveness of market research, faster product development, decrease logistics costs, or meet changing, unique customer requirements. Recently we can observe fast development of 3D printing consumables – filaments. Today’s printers can use not only synthetic materials, wood-like materials, resin, rubber, metal, concrete or paper but also new generation of smart materials. As a result of 3D printing development there can be seen a big interest in next printing generation – four-dimensional printing (4D printing). This technique can use a similar hardware as 3D printing but uses special filaments (polymers/hydrogels) so that the printed object can be transformed. Their physical parameters can be changed by adding some energy to the system, and because of that this technology is also called active object printing or shape-morphing systems printing. The aim of the article is to present 4D printing technology, its possibilities of usage and future applications mainly in the area of commerce and logistics. The paper contains brief characteristics of 4D printing technology, description on interesting and promising 4D printing startup projects. At the end of article, the authors present the impact of 4D printing technology on markets and business processes performance.

4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GOVERNANCE AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT "ICGSM"

The circular Economy. BFU. Burgas, 11 - 12 may 2017

Author(s): / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2017

The conference proceedings “ 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GOVERNANCE AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT “ICGSM” are a collection of the papers presented by the lecturers and PhD students – participants in the 4-th International Conference on Governance and Strategic Management (ICGSM).

A Brief Conversation on Quality and Ethics in Higher Education

Author(s): Ioan Chirilă,Iulian Warter / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

A camera never told the truth: An exploration of objectivity in photojournalism

Author(s): Sharaf N. Rehman / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2018

Several cases have surfaced in the past two decades where the photojournalists associated with some of the most respected and trusted news organizations have been accused of altering the news photos. During the same time, the developments in the digital cameras and editing software have put the image altering technology into the hands of all practicing journalists and journalism students. This paper explores two, somewhat connected, issues: objectivity in photojournalism and ethics of altering photographic images. The paper discusses objectivity in journalism in general and photojournalism to address the question: Can a photojournalist use a camera to record reality in an objective manner? Since the photographers have altered (retouched) images from the very beginning of photography, where are the ethical boundaries of image alteration for the photojournalists?

A CAUSALITY ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GROSS FIXED CAPITAL FORMATION, ECONOMIC GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA

Author(s): Daniel Francois Meyer,Kazeem Abimbola Sanusi / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

In terms of macro-economic policy, gross fixed capital formation, which is the major component of domestic investment, is seen as an important process that could accelerate economic growth. This study re-examines the controversial issue of causality between domestic investment, employment and economic growth using South African data. The traditional assumption of causality running from investment to economic growth has remained inconclusive while empirical findings on the investment and employment growth nexus are also largely unsettled. The study makes use of quarterly data from 1995Q1 to 2016Q4 within the framework of the Johansen cointegration and Vector Error Correction Models (VECM). The empirical findings suggest that a long run relationship exists between domestic investment, employment and economic growth, with causality running from economic growth to investment and not vice versa. The results also demonstrate that investment has a positive long-run impact on employment. The empirical evidence further suggests bi-directional causality between employment and economic growth, while evidence of uni-directional causality, from investment to employment, is also found. The major implication of the study is that although there is bi-directional causality between economic growth and employment, economic growth does not translate to increased employment in the long run confirming “jobless growth”. Investment is found to be a positive driver of employment in the South African economy in the long-run. The study concludes that, in order to stimulate employment, investment enhancing policies, such as low interest rates and a favourable economic environment should be put in place to accelerate growth. Measures to promote economic growth, such as improved infrastructural facilities and diversification of the economy, should be further engineered so as to encourage increased investment.

A Comparative Cross‑Cultural Analysis of the Profile of A Modern Ukrainian Manager: the Imperatives of the Future in the Context of Internationalization

Author(s): Beata Glinkowska,Viacheslav A. Chebotarov / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2018

The preliminary results of the development of the initial theoretical, methodological and applied methodological provisions for the study of the profile of a modern Ukrainian manager are presented in the context of predicting its transformation in the future in the context of deepening internationalization. The results of the Polish‑Ukrainian applied empirical analysis carried out by the authors are discussed. The content of the parameters of a modern Ukrainian manager is disclosed in the framework of the most common models of national business cultures, and directions for the further scientific, practical and methodological development of the problem are determined.

A Comparative Study of Perception of (Im)Politeness between Iranian EFL Learners and Americans: The Case of Request Speech Act

Author(s): Bahareh Ghasempour,Maryam Farnia / Language(s): English / Issue: 29/2016

Learning a language means learning the culture. What we act and speak reflect the culture of our language. Requests have attracted the attention of many researchers which they have often been investigated adjacent to the politeness (Liu, 2007; Jalilifar, 2009; Al-Marrani & Sazalie, 2010; Félix- Brasdefer, 2010; Youssef, 2012; Mohammadi & Tamimi Sa’d, 2014). The purpose of this study is to examine Iranian EFL learners, Persian native speakers, and American English native speakers’ perception of speech act of requests without politeness markers. To this end, the data were collected from 35 EFL learners, 35 Persian native speakers, and 14 English native speakers. The data were collected through an open ended questionnaire in the form of Discourse Completion Task and a Perception questionnaire in the form of Likert scale adopted from Saidi and Khosravi (2015). The questionnaire consists of situations with variations in contextual variables, i.e. social status: requests made by people of higher social status, equal social status and lower social status relative to the speakers. The participants were asked to imagine themselves in the situations and rate the (im)politeness of each request situation on a 4-point Likert scale. Moreover, they were required to write down what they would say if they were in a situation without politeness markers. A translated version of questionnaire was handed to Persian native speakers. Results indicated that there was a significant difference between EFL learners and English native participants, and also between EFL learners and Persian speakers’ perceptions of (im)politeness of different request situations. Moreover, by comparing the three groups of participants who perceived a request as mostly/ slightly impolite, the writer provided information about their expectations of politeness in different situations. It is hoped that the findings of this study can add to the body of knowledge in speech act studies in general and to our understanding of Iranian EFL learners and Persian native speakers’ perception of (im)politeness in particular.

A CONSTRUCTIVE AND RESPONSIBLE APPROACH TOWARDS „OUT-OF-HOME“ MEDIA

Author(s): Martin Köteleš,Alena Kusá / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

The paper deals with the topic of external offline media which are referred to as „Out Of Home“ media – also known under the abbreviation OOH. It briefly defines the key areas of OOH nowadays and explains particular approaches to be applied when creating visual advertising. The conclusion focuses on our new view of the approach towards these media so as an advertiser has a simple key how to use particular advertising space in the most effective way. Its main target is to enhance communication effectivity for target audience. The paper also highlights some of the main mistakes the promoters often make and recommend the approaches how to avoid them.

A few remarks on the axiology of university work

Author(s): Wojciech E. Zieliński / Language(s): English / Issue: 6/2018

This article is a reflection on selected aspects of the axiology of work at a university. It consists of three parts. In the first one, the author considers the problem of uncertainty of knowledge, a typical state in science at the turn of the 20th into the 21st century. This is followed by an attempt at analysing its influence upon the quality of university activities. The second part concentrates on a special form of education—distance learning, which seems to result in increasing discrepancy between the content of the transmitted message and the moral situation of its recipient, especially in the field of humanities. In the third and last part, the author discusses the need for axiological transmission of ideas and the moral responsibility of an academic teacher. In these deliberations, the author refers to the works of the historian of science, e.g. Dolby, the philosophers and historians of the society such as Habermas, Popper, Znaniecki and Ossowski, and the theologian, Newman.

A housing regime unchanged: The rise and fall of foreign-currency loans in Hungary

Author(s): Adrienne Csizmady,József Hegedűs,Diána Vonnák / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

This paper analyses the expansion and crisis of the foreign-currency (FX) loan market and responding mortgage rescue programs in Hungary, assessing changes in the housing regime. We argue that the existing, malformed housing regime has not changed significantly and remains vulnerable to similar events. During the economic growth of the 2000s, mortgage based growth seemed feasible for both institutional actors and individuals; a shared narrative emerged. As FX loans became unaffordable after 2008, conflicting interests in placing blame and paying for losses lead to the fragmentation of this narrative. We argue that the coping strategies and broader behaviour of the participants reinforced the disproportionate elements of the housing regime. After 2015, housing policies again rely on economic stabilisation, now subsidised by the EU, incentivizing market solutions for private home ownership and disregarding the experiences of the past decades.

A moderate position in the debate on the possibility and moral utility of the ethical standards codification

Author(s): Andrzej Klimczuk / Language(s): English / Issue: 5/2017

The popularisation of drawing up codes that are addressed to various social groups is one of the features of the modern world. However, researchers of the phenomenon have not yet reached a consensus about the moral validity and utility of this activity. The article thoroughly reviews the Polish literature on the subject with regard to the reasons for taking a moderate stance on the codification of ethical standards. The essay describes the main concepts of ethical codes as well as arguments for their approval and rejection. Attention is drawn to the ways of improving the effectiveness of codes and to the ethical decision-making procedure that reconciles the positions of the supporters and opponents of codification.

A motivation based shopper typology for short term retail events

Author(s): Zita Kelemen,Ildikó Kemény / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

The study focuses on the analysis of a short term retail event. Its success is similar to Black Friday, but differs in underlying consumer motivations. Using a mixed methodology, phenomenological interviews provided in-depth understanding of the participants’ lived experiences followed by an online survey with a sample size of 761 respondents. Exploratory factor analyses has been used to differentiate three distinctive groups with hierarchical cluster analysis. By adopting the ANOVA method, clusters and hypothesis were further analysed. This study is the first to employ quantitative study for a shopper taxonomy of such an event. Our results contribute valuable insights into retail shopping orientation and shopper taxonomic scheme literatures. The finding that a short term retail event’s shoppers form distinct groups of consumers indicates a new way of customers embracing retail events. Our research has identified three distinct shopper clusters based on the different weight of task and social orientations: Loyalists, Enthusiasts, Newbies. Each group applies different strategies to satisfy personal goals. The present shopper taxonomy offers new strategic ways to increase retail performance by targeting the most valuable customers.

A NARRATIVE CRITICISM OF LIFESTYLE REALITY PROGRAMS

Author(s): Travis Loof / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

This article seeks to understand and explain the relationship between lifestyle reality television programs and consumers. Specifically, this article outlines this relationship from a critical narrative perspective by interrogating two common story structures within lifestyle reality programming. By analyzing these narratives, conclusions are drawn about the role of story in consumer behavior. Additionally, this article argues that through the combination of the rhetorical situation of the housing collapse and narrative storytelling, consumers are taught how to perceive and interact when considering the purchase of a house. Finally, this article synthesizes Social Cognitive theory (Bandura, 1986) in conjunction with Narrative theory (Fisher, 1984) to explore how rhetorical criticism can use social science to better understand lived, mediated, experience.

A Plea for the Importance of Business Ethics Education for Future Managers in an International Competitive Environment

Author(s): Marian Năstase,Diana Corina Gligor-Cimpoieru / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2013

Nowadays all around the globe managers are working in an ever increasingly competitive environment and their education and formation should take into account the new challenges posed by the traits of this kind environment. Though this article we try to underline the importance of business ethics education which with its various subjects, including corporate social responsibility, begins to play an important role in the education process of future managers all over the world, as a new way for approaching problems that arise in this international business environment characterises as being highly competitive for limited resources. We will analyse the roots and the premises that determined this need for change in the approach of future manager’s education, the benefits and challenges associated to this change, and we will set the premises for an analysis of the level at which this need for business ethics education for managers is understood and taken into account by the Romanian business and economics curriculum in universities.

A Short Presentation of Romanian Economy, Business Ethics and Economic Growth

Author(s): Nicoleta Vasilcovschi / Language(s): English / Issue: 13/2018

Economic development is a multidimensional process that involves improvement of social, political, legal and business platform of a nation. Over the last two decades global issues affected the international relations and businesses around the world. Globalization helped many countries to achieve their economic development nowadays, but also brought many challenges for international businesses and societies. The first part of this article presents the Romanian economic structure, the economic growth, its measurement and limitations. Then is given a general description of economic growth process, showing the benefits and costs of economic growth, the structure and impact of modern technologies for the consumers and producers who are interacting in the globalized economic system. In the second part, it is analysed the manner in which business ethics can affect economic development. In fact, in this section are evaluated the connections between technological advancement, economic growth and the enforcement of law in international affairs. This last section gives a general description concerning the role of business ethics for the economic development.

A Sustainable Supply Chain in Clothing Industry

Author(s): Beata Milewska,Dariusz Milewski / Language(s): English / Issue: 11.3/2018

The paper addresses the issues of sustainable supply chains in the clothing industry. It points out the main threats in the areas of social and environmental risk, resulting from the location of production in the low production costs countries, i.e. Southeast Asia. The biggest social risk related to this it is the failure of manufacturers located in the Far East to comply with human rights, labor law, health and safety rules, etc. After the tragedy at the Rana Plaza clothing factory in Bangladesh, global clothing companies ordering clothing production in the Far East, including the largest Polish company clothes from LPP SA, have started to take action to improve work safety in Bangladesh. The article presents simulations carried out by the authors regarding the impact of the amount of expenditure incurred in improving the security of suppliers in Southeast Asia on the profit margins of enterprises in the clothing industry. Two options were studied – increase in expenditures, which had little impact on the reduction of profit margin, and not incurring such expenditures (hence – deterioration of opinions about the company and a decrease in revenues), which had a large impact on the profit margin. The authors presented recommendations for clothing industry companies ordering production in countries with low production costs, concerning the reduction of social risk in global supply chains.