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{"title":"The Examination of the Appearance of CSR in On-line Scientific Databases","authors":"Lívia Benita Kiss","doi":"10.21272/bel.2(2).56-65.2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21272/bel.2(2).56-65.2018","url":null,"abstract":"The phrase, corporate social responsibility (or CSR) has become very popular in recent years. A lot of definitions are in the literature. There is no generally agreed definition of corporate social responsibility (or CSR). According to the literature I think so the corporate social responsibility is a corporation's initiatives to assess and take responsibility for the company's effects on environmental and social wellbeing. Based on the literature, I think that the definition of corporate social responsibility (or CSR) can be classified into two general schools of thought. Corporate social responsibility (or CSR) is central to a whole range of concepts and issues relating to businesses and their role in society. It is useful to briefly consider where the idea of corporate social responsibility came from, when and how it has developed. In understanding corporate social responsibility, it is important to examine the genesis of the phrase, its meaning and its application and occurrence in scientific life. The goal of my study is to investigate when and where the corporate social responsibility (or CSR) appears in on-line scientific databases. I searched in databases when the phrase used first. I examined the frequency of appearance of corporate social responsibility (or CSR) in databases. The frequency of appearance of corporate social responsibility (or CSR) was 556,220 in on-line databases. The phrase was mostly in journals and in articles. The frequency of appearance of corporate social responsibility shows an exponential increasing trend in databases. The corporate social responsibility is occurring in more and more scientific research and publications. The first appearance of the investigated phrase in databases was in 1792 in all sciences. The first appearance of the investigated phrase in databases was in 1886 in selected (economic and business) sciences.","PeriodicalId":410560,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics and Leadership","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115728509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Review of the Factors behind Academic Integrity Violations: Comparing the United States and Ukraine","authors":"Aaron M. Kennet, Y. Shkodkina","doi":"10.21272/bel.2(2).84-96.2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21272/bel.2(2).84-96.2018","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, there has been a rapid growth of articles on academic integrity issues in Ukrainian scholarly publications, however, few of them have focused on factors of academic dishonesty. To develop an effective academic integrity policy, it is necessary to conduct preliminary research into the factors and reasons of academic dishonesty. Extensive research related to reasons and factors of academic dishonesty has been conducted in other countries, but not yet for a Ukrainian context. This article aims to provide a literature review on the reasons for academic dishonesty and factors leading to academic integrity violations. The article shows the key directions of research on the factors of academic dishonesty that have been studied among American students, using articles primarily from US academic literature and comparing them to relevant, available Ukrainian scholarly publications. Though the review does not claim to be a fully comprehensive one, it does provide an overview of the scale of factors and the variety of reasons for academic dishonesty in Higher Educations Institutes (HEIs). Literature was retrieved from Scopus, ResearchGate, Google Scholar databases, and Springer journals by using key search words such as factors of, reasons or causes for academic dishonesty, academic misconduct, academic integrity violation and unethical academic behaviour. The review showed that there are numerous reasons for academic integrity violations and that they stem from two major groups of factors — internal individual and external contextual factors. Whether it is beyond or within the bounds of possibility that a factor can be changed and accordingly utilized depends on its nature — external or internal — towards a student, and level (scale) of its influence — national, institutional or individual. An overview of available studies on factors behind academic dishonesty in Ukrainian HEIs demonstrated which factors need more detailed and extensive research to provide a sound base for developing an effective academic integrity policy. The findings of the article contribute to a deeper understanding of the most significant reasons students might have for committing academic malpractice, and to help develop academic integrity policies in Ukrainian institutions.","PeriodicalId":410560,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics and Leadership","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130960736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strategic Transformation and Innovation towards Blue Ocean Creation in a Changing Corporate Reality","authors":"Andreas Karaoulanis","doi":"10.21272/BEL.2(2).49-55.2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21272/BEL.2(2).49-55.2018","url":null,"abstract":"The main scope of the paper is to underline the significance of change on a corporate level. Adapt and change is the cornerstone of survival in the industrial world. Everything is changing rapidly and companies need to understand that in order to survive and sustain their development they need to transform themselves. Innovating is the key towards transformation, thus change. In this literary review, the author tries to present the correlation between the strategic transformation and the innovation in the form of open innovation and customers as innovators with the creation of blue oceans. The author argues that nowadays when companies facing multiple challenges due to the globalization, they need to implement such strategic approaches in order to transform their business via incremental changes. Although this approach is not a panacea, it is imperative to underline that can clearly create a strong competitive advantage for the companies in question and can be the springboard towards growth and sustainable development. On the other hand, disruptive innovation can be the springboard towards such strategic implementation and can only be achieved via certain channels such as the customers as innovators and the open innovation approaches which although they are not widely spread nowadays, they can be the springboard towards a better future for the global economy. The correlation between such aspects and their implications in the companies’ strategic approach it is a very controversial issue which needs a further investigation on the basis of a future research.","PeriodicalId":410560,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics and Leadership","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126204616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strategic Human Resource Practices and its Impact on Performance towards Achieving Organizational Goals","authors":"Yusuf Hossein Khan","doi":"10.21272/BEL.2(2).66-73.2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21272/BEL.2(2).66-73.2018","url":null,"abstract":"The potential use of skills, knowledge and competencies of employees in the organization would help to improve organizational performance. Certainly, the necessity of strategic human resource management in a business cannot be undermined as human resource management practices and policies influencing work, attitudes and performance of employees. Having said that human resource policies are focused on many essential practices and in turn, can positively impact organizational performance, such as human resource planning, recruitment, selection, training and development, compensation, performance management and employee relations. Once an organization believes to determine its upcoming mission and willing to achieve them, it is then rely on the employees, as they will be the key to do the necessary work geared towards achievement of the organizational goal and success through their performance. This is where the importance of strategic human resources of an organization can be seen. Without any doubt, it can be said that the success of a business depends on its human resources and the development and inspiration process of the workers in the organization plays an important role in the organizational success. Human resource strategies aims to look into and examine the human resource functions within the company in line with the business strategies of an organization. Despite the facts mentioned above using different literatures, books, articles, reports, surveys, this paper examines the outcomes of strategic human resource practices within an organization’s performances. The main objective of this paper was to identify whether strategic human resource practices play any positive roles on organizational performances. This paper will form awareness within employees, potential organizations, government and private sectors regarding the strategic human resource practices.","PeriodicalId":410560,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics and Leadership","volume":"175 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116122289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Historical and Contemporary Approaches to Entrepreneurship. Review of Polish Literature","authors":"I. Pomianek","doi":"10.21272/bel.2(2).74-83.2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21272/bel.2(2).74-83.2018","url":null,"abstract":"The 21st century has been a period of dynamic socio-economic changes in the world due to globalization, internationalization and expansion of organizations satisfying more and more varied customer needs. As the competition is growing, companies operating on the market have to continuously work on their development. The entrepreneurship has been combining knowledge, commitment and technology of the entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial attitude and behavior allow to find yourself on the market and achieve success. That is why entrepreneurship has been the object of interest of many scientists, not only in the field of economics. The aim of this paper was to present a review of Polish definitions of entrepreneurship, an enterprise and an entrepreneur, on the background of foreign historical approaches to entrepreneurship. Despite considerable interest in the subject of entrepreneurship, there is no unambiguous definition of this phenomenon. A common feature of the proposed definitions is the combination of entrepreneurship and business. Multidimensionality of entrepreneurship emphasizes its importance in economic development, as it occurs in all sectors of the economy.","PeriodicalId":410560,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics and Leadership","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130442139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can We Act Ethically? Implications of Determinism, Chaos Theory and Unintended Consequences","authors":"J. Tsalikis","doi":"10.21272/bel.2(2).6-13.2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21272/bel.2(2).6-13.2018","url":null,"abstract":"This paper looks at the question of whether people can act ethically from the perspective of determinism, chaos theory, and unintended consequences. These concepts negate the idea that ethical acts are always followed by ethical results. Sometimes the opposite might happen, an ethical act could be followed by an unethical result. The paper begins by presenting the various definitions of “ethics”, including Taylor’s definition of ethics as “an inquiry into the nature and grounds of moral judgments, standards, and rules of conduct relating to marketing decisions and marketing situations”. Consequently, the predominant philosophical normative ethical theories are divided into three groups: (1) consequential theories – those that deal exclusively with the consequences of an action (egoism, and utilitarianism); (2) single-rule nonconsequential – those that deal with a single rule (golden rule, and Kant’s categorical imperative); and (3) multiple-rule nonconsequential – those that deal with multiple rules (Ross’s prima facie duties, Rawl’s maximin principle of justice, and Garrett’s Principle of Proportionality). Finally, Protagoras’ conception of ethical relativism is presented. The Greek philosopher Protagoras, seems to have believed two things: first, that moral principles cannot be shown to be valid for everybody; and second, that people ought to follow the conventions of their own group. The above ethical theories are seen through the eyes of Newton’s perception of Determinism of the world as a clockwork, where a cause is always followed by a predictable effect. It assumes that causation is absolute and all events are completely determined by previously existing causes. This deterministic point of view is juxtaposed with the concept of unintended consequences and the ideas of chaos theory including Sensitivity to Initial Conditions, Dimensionality, and areas of Determinism being followed by areas of Chaos. The conclusion is that reality is too chaotic and dynamic to predict the causal effects of ethical actions.","PeriodicalId":410560,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics and Leadership","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128003073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Structural Framework for Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and its Consequence on Leadership Succession Planning Strategy Applying to the Leaders of King Khalid University and Qualified Personnel for Leadership Position","authors":"Fatimah Mohamed Mahdy Hassan, Faiz Binzafrah, Mohammad Alqahtani","doi":"10.21272/bel.6(2).24-43.2022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21272/bel.6(2).24-43.2022","url":null,"abstract":"The research paper pursues to know the effect of NLP practices on leadership succession planning strategy by applying to The Leaders of King Khalid University and Qualified Personnel for the Leadership position. After reviewing the literature, the researchers formulated a hypothetical model for the study that includes the central hypothesis from which six sub-hypotheses emerge, including measuring the impact of NLP pillars on leadership succession planning strategy. A sample size of 100 individuals was selected, representing the research population represented by the deans and deans of the university and colleges and heads of departments in colleges at King Khalid University in Saudi Arabia. The response rate was 82%, with 82 valid questionnaires for analysis. The study relied on Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) by AMOS (V.26) and SPSS (V.25) for data analysis and hypotheses. The study found a positive and significant effect between NLP and leadership succession planning strategy. NLP confirmed its re-formulation of standard mental models to understand and facilitate the process of thinking and training, which helps successive leaders understand the ideas and beliefs of current leaders and their ways of thinking in solving problems and facing crises. In addition, NLP plays a vital role in increasing the successive leader’s sense of the need to establish their reputation for outstanding performance after similarity and learning from the model. Finally, the novice leader needs a model and role model to help him control the way he feels, transforming it into positive thinking that stimulates energy and focuses on goals, which the application of NLP practices does. So, this study is recommended the necessity of activating leadership succession planning strategy within universities through establishing a leadership academy in which NLP methods are practiced, as this academy has a significant impact on achieving leadership succession and the continuation of pipelines of leaders.","PeriodicalId":410560,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics and Leadership","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117108739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Importance of Internet of Things (IoT) in Marketing Research and Its Ethical and Data Privacy Challenges","authors":"M. Moradi","doi":"10.21272/BEL.5(1).22-30.2021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21272/BEL.5(1).22-30.2021","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on examining IoT applications in marketing research and provides information on how organizations utilize IoT devices and other new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and social media to promote various products and services. Moreover, this study specifies how the consistent use of IoT technologies results in substantial organizational competitiveness. The paper also explains how IoT can be referred to as a new component of business analytics and digital marketing and discusses the challenges related to introducing IoT solutions. The most pressing issues that need to be addressed in the IoT context are described as ethical and data privacy issues. It can be explained by the fact that a substantial amount of data is generated during the development of IoT solutions, which raises the question of whether the respective information could be properly managed. It necessitates implementing a transparent, ethical framework, which should be supported by an adequately regulatory process. The extensive exploration of IoT solutions allows academics and marketing practitioners to generate a wide range of data that can be used to improve products and services provided to diverse consumer groups. Therefore, this paper offers a framework for the collaboration process between academics and practitioners. This collaboration in developing IoT tools is marked by adopting a holistic approach to facilitating the progress of such innovation. Academic researchers’ expertise can be utilized to generate creative and innovative ideas on the IoT sector. The combination of important theoretical assumptions and practical experience is vital to achieving the strategic goals of the collaboration between academics and practitioners.","PeriodicalId":410560,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics and Leadership","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127096677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perceived Effective Business Ethics through Leadership and Cultural Competence in the United States","authors":"Karina Kasztelnik, Damon Brown","doi":"10.21272/bel.3(4).15-27.2019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21272/bel.3(4).15-27.2019","url":null,"abstract":"The paper summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the scientific discussion on the issue perceived effective policing through leaderships’ diversity training learning outcomes and cultural competence. The main purpose of this quantitative correlational study was conducted to address if and to what extent the leadership of law enforcement agencies is learning outcomes of diversity training initiatives and the level of cultural competence of leadership influences law enforcement organizational effectiveness. Systematization of literary sources and approaches for solving the problem of effective policing leadership indicates that this quantitative research study expands police leadership knowledge base by identifying whether significant differences exist in police effectiveness when incorporating diversity training initiative learning outcomes and cultural competence both exclusively and collectively. The relevance of the decision of this scientific problem is that police leadership possessing the knowledge and understanding police effectiveness through diversity training initiative learning outcomes and cultural competence can adapt and adjust in concert with the need to be more effective in Black and multicultural commutes based on the study’s findings. The statistical significance indicated in this study concerning diversity training initiative learning outcomes predicting police effectiveness is substantial. The paper presents the results of this empirical analysis study that may contribute to the positive national senior management change by bringing into focus the role of effective policing through leaderships’ diversity training learning outcomes and cultural competence and its positive impact on the public sector.\u0000Keywords: Cultural Competence, Diversity Training, Management Effectiveness, Multicultural Leadership, Management Decision, Business Ethics.","PeriodicalId":410560,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics and Leadership","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127541239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Popularity Dynamics of Social and Affordable Housing: Ethics vs Business","authors":"S. Ianchuk","doi":"10.21272/BEL.5(1).109-117.2021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21272/BEL.5(1).109-117.2021","url":null,"abstract":"This paper summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the scientific discussion on the issue of social housing, existing ethical dilemmas, and business development. The main purpose of the research is to investigate the interest level and popularity dynamics of social and affordable housing in the world in general and in OECD countries. The systematization of literary sources and approaches for solving the problem of ethical and economical aspects of social and affordable housing indicates that there is no single point of view on this issue among scientists. That is why the essence of the concepts of social, affordable, and public housing needs to be clarified considering existing differences. Besides it, comparative analysis of the results of analytical analysis of the interest level and popularity dynamics of social and affordable housing based on Google Trends tools and the results of statistical analysis in this context has not been conducted yet. Investigation of the topic about popularity dynamics of social and affordable housing emphasizing ethical needs and expected business benefits in the paper is carried out in the following logical sequence: systematization and clarification theoretical approaches to determine the essence and the difference between social, public and affordable housing; description of dominant types of funding social and affordable housing; analytical analysis of popularity dynamics of social and affordable housing with the determination of key value picks; statistical analysis of certain social housing indicators; comparing the results and making conclusions. Methodological tools of the research methods were logical generalization and scientific abstraction, statistical and structural analysis, comparative, and graphical analysis using the Excel software. Analytical analysis was realized based on Google Trends tools. The objects of research were the search requests about social, public, and affordable housing in the world in 2004-2021, and the indicators of social housing from the sample of OECD countries and other EU countries (limit in 2018 due to the availability of information on open information portals of The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development). The paper presents the results of analytical, statistical, and comparative analysis of the level of interest (popularity) and development of social and affordable housing. The recommendations according to the coexistence of ethical and entrepreneurial principles can be useful for public and private investors in social and affordable housing.","PeriodicalId":410560,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics and Leadership","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115085178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}