Business Behavior Research Articles

Perceived Corruption and Informality among Croatian Businesspeople

The pervasiveness of corruption in Croatia is documented by corruption perception indicators and surveys, yet there is no comprehensive knowledge about corruption and informality in the private sector. This quantitative study uses primary survey data of Croatian business actors to determine business perceptions and attitudes towards corruption and informality. The results show that Croatian businesspeople express low trust in institutions, but do not see them as obstacles to doing business. Similarly, Croatia’s EU membership is perceived as insignificant in the fight against corruption and informality. The SMEs are allegedly suffering more due to corruption, whereas the large companies are seen as the main generators of corruption. Corrupt behaviour and informal practices in everyday business are more accepted and used by the owners and managers working in small and micro firms. This study thus contributes to research on doing business and managerial behaviour and offers policy recommendations to mitigate the harmful effects of corruption and informality.

Online food delivery adoption: In Search For Dominantly Influencing Factors

Online Food Delivery (OFD) is a service innovation that significantly impacts current technological developments in the food and beverage sector. This paper aims to review the academic literature on OFD services systematically. This study reviews all literature published from 2017 until 2022. Literature is classified based on the context, the theory, and the factors influencing the adoption of OFD. The results of this study indicate that twenty-one factors have a dominant influence on OFD adoption. These factors are classified into three categories, namely individual factors, technological factors, and external factors. This study highlights that individual factors are the most commonly used factors for OFD adoption. This study outlines directions for future research and allows a detailed view of consumer behavior in OFD businesses.

The Ukrainian language in the business environment after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine

The full-scale war of Russia against Ukraine that started on February 24, 2022, has caused changes in the cultural, religious, and language areas. Since then, more and more Ukrainian citizens decided to switch to Ukrainian recognizing Russian as the language of the enemy. The study aims to investigate how the full-scale intervention has determined the language attitude, language shift, and language behaviour of Ukrainian businesses and businesspersons. The research data used for analysis includes both written and video interviews with business owners and CEOs of the companies as well as their posts on social media, namely Telegram, Facebook, and Twitter. The stories of Oleh Horokhovs’kyi, Nataliia Jemchenko, Volodymyr Popereshniuk, Vjacheslav Klymov, Oleksii Vadaturskyi, Valeriia Guzema, etc. and their business as well as position of the Ukrainian banks and official institutions form the core of the study. This material has been chosen since it represents demonstrative samples of businesspersons’ language practices and their reflections on the language situation in Ukraine, the role of the language in national building, sovereignty, and national security. The business representatives clarify their language choices and explain how it has influenced identity construction, as well as developing their linguistic personality. Moreover, the change in the status of the Russian language and its role in Ukraine and the Ukrainian business environment has been investigated. The analysis reveals that the concepts of language behaviour, language choice, and language attitude describe the language situation studied during the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war. Keywords: language situation, language behaviour, Ukrainian language, Russian language, language shift.

АНАЛІЗ ДЕРЖАВНИХ СТИМУЛІВ ДЛЯ ЗАЛУЧЕННЯ ІНВЕСТИЦІЙ У ЦИФРОВУ ЕКОНОМІКУ

The article is devoted to the substantiation of the theoretical foundations and the development of practical recommendations regarding the study of the influence of state incentives on the attraction of investments in the digital economy. It was revealed that digital transformation requires a combination of infrastructure and investments. Given the definition of the concept of “incentive” as a reason or inducement that encourages parties to certain behavior or certain actions, currently in the legal context incentives are created through laws, regulations, financial subsidies or tax levers. It is noted that state incentives are used as tools to encourage desired behavior and achieve state policy goals. Systematized state incentives for attracting investments in the digital economy: state digitalization programs; withdrawal of digitalization investments from the tax base of companies; preferential tax rates and “tax holidays” (VAT, PnPP, personal income tax, EUV); preferential loans and grants; accelerated depreciation of fixed assets; exemption from payment of fees for infrastructure, real estate and land rent; innovative export insurance; public procurement of digital innovations. The analysis of state incentives for attracting investments in the digital economy of countries such as the USA, Great Britain, Luxembourg and Germany was carried out. For example, in the US – federal grant funding to support digital inclusion programs in states and territories. The UK encourages venture capital investment through schemes such as enterprise investment (EIS), investment in start-up enterprises (SEIS). Tax incentives for investments are widespread in Luxembourg. In Germany, the most common incentive is State programs aimed at influencing the investment behavior of businesses for the purpose of economic development. It has been determined that national digital competitiveness is the result of investment in education and the provision of the skills required by the labor market. According to the annual Aggregate Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) for EU member states, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden are the most digitized, and the Top 10 in the IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking are occupied by such countries as: the USA, the Netherlands, Singapore, Denmark, Switzerland, Republic of Korea, Sweden, Finland, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), Hong Kong SAR. Tools for stimulating investment activity and measures for the implementation of appropriate incentives for the digitalization of the economy in Ukraine are disclosed.

Income tax compliance behavior of businesses: The case of Vietnam

The socio-economic development of each country requires the contribution of businesses to social goals and the state budget. Improving tax compliance behavior is consistent with improving the ability of businesses to contribute to the budget. The objective of the study is to evaluate factors affecting tax compliance behavior for businesses. The study is conducted on 202 enterprises in Thai Nguyen, a locality located in the key economic region of Vietnam and with a high level of economic development. Through quantitative analysis of the research results, it found that: the system legislation and socio-economic conditions have the strongest influence on businesses' tax compliance behavior. However, the influence of business characteristics and tax authority characteristics on tax compliance behavior is lower.

Existentialism and environmental destruction: Should polluters face criminal punishment or an existential crisis?

This study examines how existentialism, which emphasizes purpose, freedom, and individual life, affects environmental harm. The study asks: should environmental polluters face only criminal penalties or existential crises as a deeper moral responsibility? Conceptual normative research is used in this work. This study analyses existentialist and environmental criminal law literature to link existential crises to environmental degradation. The results imply that existentialism—a philosophy that analyses meaning, freedom, and existence—is linked to rampant environmental deterioration. This study suggests that environmental harm perpetrators should confront an “existential crisis” rather than criminal punishment. The crisis is forcing a reorientation of values and actions, which affects business behaviour, environmental ethics, and criminal law. Existentialism in Environmental Law and ethics broadens “responsibility” and “accountability,” while offering a more inclusive, democratic, and sustainable paradigm.

An Examination of Airlines Employees' Perceptions of Sustainability, Green Business Behaviors and Employees' Views on Corporate Reputation

An Examination of Airlines Employees' Perceptions of Sustainability, Green Business Behaviors and Employees' Views on Corporate Reputation

STRATEGIES FOR STRENGTHENING BUSINESS ECONOMIC SECURITY WITH ACCOUNT TO GLOBAL FINANCIAL CHALLENGES

The study focuses on the algorithm of business behaviour under conditions of worsening of its economic security. The algorithm allows businesses to objectively assess the situation regarding financial threats and develop appropriate strategic measures to eliminate them. A system-situational model is proposed with financial actors to evaluate the tendencies of business players' elimination in the international financial markets. The purpose of the research is theoretical and applied approaches to developing strategies for strengthening the economic security of business in the context of the global challenges of the global financial system. To overcome the state of the economic security system imbalance, the dominant external and internal drivers are determined. It was proven that eliminating the negative impact of factors of global financial challenges can balance the system of economic security of business. In order to universalize the measurement of trends in the elimination of business players in international financial markets, a system-situational model was studied, which is based on the consolidation of systemic and situational perceptions of financial actors regarding the interpretation of financial information and adapted to the conditions of investor behaviour on the international financial market. In the course of the study, it was proven that eliminating the negative impact of factors of global financial challenges can balance the system of economic security of business, bring it to the newest stage of evolutionary response and ensure further sustainable financial and socio-economic development of business. The set of used scientific methods for strategizing balancing opportunities in the system of economic security and proposed empirical tools for eliminating negative factors of external and internal influences allow the creation of new scenario approaches to ensuring the strengthening of economic security of business.

First (latent) generation and family business: a perspective article

PurposeFamily businesses are characterized by the simultaneous presence of the family and the business system. The literature analyses sporadically the family support during the creation of a new family business. For this reason, the aim of this article is to offer new reflections and theoretical approaches in the field of family business studies. In fact, the study focuses on the first generation and the relationship and support with the previous generation (latent generation).Design/methodology/approachThis perspective paper is based on a concise review of the literature.FindingsThe results of this offer a state of the art, synthesized and integrated, on the first generation to proposal the reader new knowledge on the first generation and relationships with family members.Originality/valueThis perspective paper distinguishes between the first generation formally engaged in the family business and the latent generation. The authors identify latent generation as a generation coeval with the first that supports the entrepreneur without being formally engaged in the family business. This study summarizes existing research on the first generation, highlighting the crucial role of the latent generation. Considering the latent generation determines an implicit and tacit generational transition not yet considered in the literature on the topic This study provides new research directions for scholars and managers to understand the entrepreneurial behaviors of families, family members and family businesses.

Is there heterogeneity and moderating effect of carbon trading pilot in promoting total factor productivity?

In order to analyze what factors may affect the role of carbon trading pilot in promoting total factor productivity, this paper constructs DID model combining information of listed companies with city and industry characteristics. The moderating effect model is used to research the influence of firms' induced behavior. The results show that (1) the characteristics of a city can influence the impact of carbon trading pilot, which is associated with the city's dominant industry, resource endowment, and geographical location; (2) the effect of carbon trading pilot is heterogeneous, primarily indicating a stronger effect on high-emission industries, while having no significant impact on high-pollution industries; and (3) the induced behavior of businesses, such as increasing green innovation and environmental protection expenditure, potentially "crowding out" the effects of the carbon trading pilot.

The Influence of Short Videos on College Students Purchasing Behavior

Short video has gradually developed into one of the practical expression ways of information content communication in the mobile Internetvarious social media and e-commerce use opportunities from this trend. College students are the most active and mainstream group in Short video. The fragmented communication mode, exciting content, and business behavior of short videos have been integrated into the group of college students, influencing them all the time, including but not limited to purchasing behavior. In this paper, college students are selected to build a mechanism model of the influence of word-of-mouth characteristics of social e-commerce networks on college students purchase intention, and the model is tested through empirical research. The results showed that when brand marketing is enhanced, brand interaction, experience perception, interest, and perception are enhanced. The more frequently consumers interact with the brand, the more frequently they connect and communicate with it, and their purchasing behavior will be enhanced.

Unveiling the impact on corporate social responsibility through green tax and green financing: a PLS-SEM approach.

In today's global business landscape, the concepts of green financing and green tax have become pivotal instruments for fostering environmentally responsible practices. The purpose of 20this study is to comprehensively assess how green financing and green tax collectively influence CSR through various dimensions, including employees, customers, and communities. This research employs a partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) approach, which allows for a rigorous analysis of the complex relationships between the variables involved. Data is collected through surveys, enabling a quantitative evaluation of the impacts and interdependencies. The results indicate that green financing has a positive and significant impact on CSR through customer (β = 0.609), employee (β = 0.522), and community (β = 0.509) dimensions. The results also show that green tax has a positive and significant impact on CSR through customer (β = 0.183), employee (β = 0.182), and community (β = 0.296) dimensions. The findings of this study provide a deeper understanding of how green financing and green tax practices correlate with CSR, both separately and collectively. The implications of this research extend to multiple stakeholders. For businesses, the results offer strategic insights into how environmentally conscious financial practices align with CSR objectives. Policymakers can draw upon the findings to craft effective regulatory frameworks that incentivize sustainable business behavior. Additionally, stakeholders gain valuable insights into how businesses can harmonize economic success with environmental stewardship, promoting engagement with socially responsible entities. This research marks a distinct contribution to the academic landscape by delving into the synergistic impact of green financing and green tax on CSR, particularly within the distinctive context of Bangladesh. In doing so, it successfully addresses a noticeable void within the existing literature, providing fresh insights into the intricate dynamics and opportunities confronting businesses in developing nations.

Analysis of Adaptation of MSME Business Behavior in Using Technology in the Digitalization Era

This research aims to research and analyze changes in business behavior in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the Digital Era up to the stage of readiness to be able to run them in terms of the tendency of MSMEs to accept and use technology for marketing by conducting a study on PT's Fostered Partner MSMEs. Angkasa Pura I. The research method used is combination or triangulation research by combining quantitative and qualitative research, a quantitative approach using questionnaires as a tool for collecting data. The research instrument used is an adaptation of the research instrument conducted by Parasuraman (2000). The data used is primary data obtained by distributing questionnaires to respondents with a sample size of 19 MSMEs from the MSME population assisted by PT. Angkasa Pura I runs its business around the airport with a craft business type. The technique used is simple random sampling using a Likert scale. The research results show that the MSME partners fostered by PT. Angkasa Pura I is ready to use digital technology to run its business and innovate in the future

A Study on Collaborative Governance of Tourism Default ---- Analysis Based on Three-way Deductive Evolutionary Game Theory

With the opening up of the domestic epidemic and the tourism heatwave, hotel default behaviors have emerged one after another. With the increasing exposure of default issues, the contradictions between tourists and businesses, tourists and the government, and government and businesses have become increasingly prominent, and have once become the focus of social attention. This article fully considers the regulation and supply-demand relationship of stakeholders in the tourism industry in environmental regulations and constructs a tripartite evolutionary game model between the government, businesses, and tourists. It analyzes the strategic evolution paths of each participant and the factors that affect their evolution. The research results indicate that the enthusiasm of government regulation is a key factor in solving the problem of default, and the fluctuations in its behavioral strategies simultaneously affect the behavior of tourists and businesses; Consumer rights protection is another key factor in promoting compliance behavior among businesses; The probability of merchants choosing compliant behavior reaches its maximum when the government and tourists work together; In the process of collaborative governance, the government can effectively suppress the motivation of merchants to adopt default pricing by adopting active regulatory measures such as increasing the amount of punishment and compensation. However, more importantly, it can improve consumers' willingness to protect their rights by reducing the cost of tourists' rights protection and establishing appropriate reward systems, making up for the lack of government regulation.

Уязвимость культурных кодов как угроза существования цивилизации

The article deals with the consequences of the vulnerability of cultural codes as an actual threat to the existence of human civilization with the uncontrolled and unreasonable use of artificial intelligence. Positive as well as negative options for the interaction of artificial intelligence with cultural codes that level the understanding of the basic universals of human behavior, communication, and activity are analyzed. The influence of the human factor on the use of acquired skills by strong artificial intelligence in non-standard conditions, the responsibility of a particular specialist for the quality and quantity of input data under the influence of his gender, confessional, national, racial, cultural and linguistic characteristics, leading the system to erroneous actions and conclusions, are investigated. The negative consequences of an uncritical perception of reality, the inability of a modern person to distinguish content from fakes that are becoming massive, replacing the existing reality, used for unseemly and criminal purposes are considered. The necessity of state regulation of the ethical behavior of business engaged in the development and implementation of artificial intelligence technologies, the establishment of ethical behavior standards in this innovative area, the signing of the Code of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, adopted by representatives of leading domestic companies, are substantiated. The practical implementation of the areas of training of highly qualified IT specialists presented in it at universities, the system of additional education with the acquisition of demanded professions of specialists in data analysis and processing, ensuring the operation of corporate information systems, data analysis in the field of education, programmers, including at the Saratov National Research State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky, Saratov State University of Genetics, Biotechnology and Engineering named after N. I. Vavilov.

Fintech Helps the Bank of Changsha to Build An Ecological Banking Paradigm

The wind of science and technology has violently impacted the financial ecology and gradually overturned the traditional business model of commercial banks, so that banks have promoted fintech to a strategic height, in order to realize the multiplication of customer base, the doubling of benefits and the doubling of cost. In addition, the traditional lending financial model has been out of time, and what customers need is no longer breakpoint services. People's daily life and business behavior of enterprises have already been networked and systematized, which has become a node on the whole social ecological network, and financial services must be platform and ecological. In this context, The Bank of Changsha has made rapid countermeasures. On the basis of always focusing on the "three positioning" of urban commercial banks, it puts forward the development concept of building financial tech ecology, local living ecology, industrial investment ecology, industrial investment banking ecology and market investment ecology. Under the guidance of precise strategy and clear system, the construction path of ecological bank has become more clear, and the balanced growth of operating value, quality and scale has been realized, and the business structure has been continuously optimized. This paper analyzes the specific measures of the Bank of Changsha, and puts forward some suggestions for the construction of ecological bank, in order to have certain reference value for small and medium-sized banks to break through the difficulties.

The Emergence of Regional Industrial Policy in Britain: The Case of Wales, 1939 to 1947

From the 1940s to the 1970s, British governments steered manufacturing businesses to peripheral regions designated as needing more employment. This approach was delivered through a Regional Policy that deployed industrial location controls and financial incentives. Effectiveness varied over time but was dramatic in the mid-1940s, when it boosted the regional stock of secondary manufacturing to the extent that its legacy remains visible today. The literature describes how this Regional Policy was a peacetime policy, albeit one formulated during the war. This article, however, proposes that the most successful phase of Regional Policy was an extension of wartime policies governing regional manufacturing businesses producing munitions. It uses a case study of Wales to make two arguments. One is that the Regional Policy associated with the postwar period began to be implemented before the war had ended. The other is that the Board of Trade pursued the policy through repurposed wartime governance mechanisms within an economy that remained subject to onerous state controls. The case outlines a short but consequential burst of assertive state involvement that shaped business activity throughout much of regional Britain, echoing Philip Scranton and Patrick Fridenson’s arguments concerning “the state always being in” given its role in shaping markets, business behavior, and regulations.

Analysis of Huaxing Yuanchuang M&A Based on PEG and EVA Valuation Model

In the process of expanding operations, enterprises often encounter bottlenecks in terms of capital, technology, management, and other aspects. In order to tackle these problems, enterprises often choose to issue bonds, go public, mergers and acquisitions, etc. to expand their production and business scope, update management models, and improve their competitiveness. Due to the short introduction of the merger and acquisition mechanism, the analysis and research of mergers and acquisitions by various enterprises are relatively shallow, and the success rate of mergers and acquisitions by Chinese enterprises is low. This study conducts a research and analysis on the first merger and acquisition case on the Science and Technology Innovation Board, i.e., the case of Huaxing Yuanchuang's acquisition of Olyto. Based on PEG and EVA valuation models, it analyzes the motivation and results of Huaxing Yuanchuang's acquisition of Olyto's business behavior. By valuing and comparing the stock price of Huaxing Yuanchuang before and after the merger and acquisition behavior, the conclusion that the merger and acquisition behavior is not successful is drawn. Research has found that under the PEG valuation model, the stock price of Huaxingyuan Chuang after the merger is slightly overvalued, while under the EVA valuation model, the stock price is greatly underestimated.

Perilaku Berbisnis dan Implementasi Manajemen dalam Novel Harga Teman Design, Resign, Redesign Karya Debora Danisa

Business is an activity that includes economics carried out individually or in groups with the aim of making a profit. In a business that is created, the entrepreneur will definitely try to create ideas that are new and unique in each business. The aim of this research is to describe business behavior and management implementation in the novel Harga Teman by Debora Danisa. This type of research uses a qualitative approach. The data collection technique used is listening and data text collection. The listening method is a way to obtain data by listening to the story facts and economic problems that occur in the novel. The materials used to collect data come from novels that have been read. The results of the research explain that the content of the story that occurred is truly relevant in the real world, where building a business requires the implementation of the basics of management and an unyielding behavior. Uncertain economic conditions subtly require entrepreneurs to be able to survive under any conditions. In business, it turns out that these factors are very necessary for smooth business continuity.

Sistem Rancang Bangun dalam Islam

Islamic economics is an economy that is built on the basis of values ​​taken from Islamic law. the values ​​contained form an Islamic economic design which will later provide an overview for realizing the goals of Islamic economics. In the design of Islamic economics there are important components including Islamic economic theory, principles of Islamic economic systems, and Islamic behavior in business and economics. These three important components become important research as a means to be applied and related to economic behavior both in daily life and applied in the state. The purpose of this research is to convey knowledge from the title which is made so that it can be useful and applied by every individual in carrying out good economic activities and can create a just and prosperous economy. The method used in this research is to use a qualitative method by taking and collecting sources from literature studies. The result of this discussion is that Islamic economic design is a very important feature in building a just and prosperous economic system in accordance with the goals of Islamic economics