Enterprise Setting Research Articles

Developing a Conceptual Framework for GIS Audit in an Enterprise Setting

Developing a Conceptual Framework for GIS Audit in an Enterprise Setting

THE METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY OF FACTOGRAPHIC DATA OF OPERATIONAL DOCUMENTATION OF LARGE PRODUCTION SYSTEMS

The creation and operation of large production systems (LPS), consisting of a set of enterprises and organizations, characterized by their complex interaction, is one of the directions of industrial development in our country. The advantage of the LPS is to increase the efficiency of its functioning, build up scientific potential, and coordinate the enterprises and organizations that are part of it. The production activity of any enterprise is associated with solving the problems of making management decisions, which is based on the processing of exploitative factographic data. By the exploitative content of an enterprise, we mean significant information content for the process of its operation, which is stored in the form of an information resource (for example, an electronic document). Factographic data allow you to monitor the current state of the enterprise, to determine the strategic, tactical, exploitative goals and objectives of the enterprise, to develop well-grounded and timely management decisions. The processing of exploitative factographic data of operational content requires the involvement of additional resources for its processing, which is explained by the low formalizability of the exploitative content and the lack of implementation of semantic interoperability. Semantic interoperability is understood as “the ability of any information systems interacting in the process of communication to understand in the same way the meaning of the information they exchange”. Thus, the actual problem of the operation of large production systems is the implementation of the semantic interoperability of factual data of operational documentation, which will allow the use of a universal algorithm for their processing. The main directions of approaches to the implementation of semantic interoperability are considered and their shortcomings are identified. An approach to the implementation of semantic interoperability based on the use of semistructure of exploitative factual content of electronic documents is proposed. As part of the work, a practical example of the implementation of the proposed approach is given on the example of processing the results of hydrodynamic studies of gas wells. A universal method of marking factographic data in the content of electronic MS Word documents by means of their semistructure models is proposed, which implements support for their semantic interoperability and automated processing for all MS Word document formats implemented on the basis of XML technology.

Recommendations on the implementation of the spatial potential of small enterprises as an instrument of regional economic policy

The spatial approach to the study of the development of small enterprises is an actual scientific direction. There are gaps in the effective practical implementation of the spatial capabilities of small enterprises, which consist in fine-tuningthe system of state and municipal development of the small enterprise sector. The purpose of this study is to form practical recommendations to the authorities on the implementation of the spatial potential of small enterprises on the example of the Samara Region. The article examines the set of small enterprises of the Samara Region, taking into account the principle of joint consideration of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs based on information obtained from the publications of Federal State Statistics Service and the Unified Register of Small and Medium-sized Businesses. General scientific methods are used: analysis, logical, synthesis, as well as special methods: content analysis, program-target. Proposals for the development of small enterprises in the multi-level economic space of the region and comments on the adjustment of the institutional framework of the regional economic management system are formed on the example of the Samara Region. The scientific significance of the results obtained is to increase the validity of the regional economic policy pursued by the authorities. The practical significance of the work lies in the possibility of applying the system of strategic planning documents at the regional and sub-regional levels in the development and adjustment of the system. The recommendations made are proposed to be taken into account as additions to the regional system of strategic documents of the Samara Region.

DEVELOPMENT OF PERFORMANCE EVALUATION INDICATORS FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISES: THE USE OF DELPHI TECHNIQUE

Social enterprises have become a natural part of the economy. Their importance is significantly increasing, as well as the need to evaluate their performance. There are different points of view on the indicators and methods used to evaluate their performance and they often lack simplicity and are costly and time consuming. Thus, this study aims to identify and discuss performance evaluation indicators for social enterprises with particular focus on identifying a set of indicators that might be applied without placing high demands on each social enterprise. A two-phase approach was adopted and applied in the Czech social entrepreneurship environment. First, the Delphi technique was used to get a set of indicators for each of the areas of the triple bottom line principles. Consequently, an empirical examination of these indicators using a set of social enterprises was conducted. Final results were determined using Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS). As a result, a set of twelve indicators that cover social, economic, environmental and local areas are proposed. These indicators reflect the opinions of experts in the field as well as their practical usefulness, which is discussed at the end of the paper.

The competitive factors of German enterprises in Poland

The purpose of this paper is to answer the following research questions: which factors relating to the international competitiveness of German enterprises are most important for the Polish market? Which competitiveness factors play a key role in helping enterprises from the highest developed countries conquer the market of a relatively less developed country? On the basis of a literature review, a research gap is identified, indicating there is a shortage of studies that clearly identify a group of factors that influence a company’s success on the foreign market. The gap is filled with the empirical qualitative research and the conclusions regarding the key competitiveness factors and their effective combination. Competitive strategies and factors key for their implementation are identified, presenting the factors responsible for the growth of German enterprises on the international market (Poland) and achieving market success. The set of enterprises’ competitiveness factors is established and the hierarchy those factors is presented. Although the qualitative research based on thirteen companies is not representative, the leading German enterprises provide a valuable lesson on how to successfully conquer a foreign market. The key competitiveness factors responsible for such success in the context of strategic goals, competition strategies and modern methods of competition are presented and discussed. The findings are very useful for real enterprises in internationalizing situations, where the management has to determine the competitive strategy which should lead to foreign growth and in consequence success on the international market. The study indicates what to focus on when entering the foreign market and which factors have a direct impact on the growth on the foreign market. The paper is a result of empirical research on competitiveness and provides valuable information about the set of ranked competitive factors that have a direct influence on success in a foreign market.

ПРОБЛЕМЫ И ВЫЗОВЫ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ РЫБНОЙ ПРОМЫШЛЕННОСТИ

The agricultural complex is an integral part of the structure of the agro-industrial complex of the region and includes a set of enterprises that carry out homogeneous activities related to fishing, fish farming and fish processing. The development of the fisheries complex contributes not only to the economic development of a certain subject of the Federation, but also to the entire economy of the country. The article considers the main challenges and problems of the development of fisheries, taking into account the interacting role of sectoral factors and the system of relations in the food market.

A Multi-Criteria Decision Support System for Strategic Planning at the Swiss Forest Enterprise Level: Coping With Climate Change and Shifting Demands in Ecosystem Service Provisioning

Sustainable forest management plays a key role for forest biodiversity and the provisioning of ecosystem services (BES), including the important service of carbon sequestration for climate change mitigation. Forest managers, however, find themselves in the increasingly complex planning situation to balance the often conflicting demands in BES. To cope with this situation, a prototype of a decision support system (DSS) for strategic (long-term) planning at the forest enterprise level was developed in the present project. The DSS was applied at three case study enterprises (CSEs) in Northern Switzerland, two lowland and one higher-elevation enterprise, for a 50-year time horizon (2010 to 2060) under present climate and three climate change scenarios (‘wet’, ‘medium’, ‘dry’). BES provisioning (for biodiversity, timber production, recreation, protection against gravitational hazards and carbon sequestration) was evaluated for four management scenarios (no management, current (BAU), lower and higher management intensity) using a utility-based multi-criteria decision analysis. Additionally, four alternative preference scenarios for BES provisioning were investigated to evaluate the robustness of the results to shifting BES preferences. At all CSEs, synergies between carbon sequestration, biodiversity and protection function as well as trade-offs between carbon sequestration and timber production occurred. The BAU management resulted in the highest overall utility in 2060 for different climate and BES preference scenarios, with the exception of one lowland CSE under current BES preference, where a lower intensity management performed best. Although climate change had a relatively small effect on overall utility, individual BES indicators showed a negative climate change impact for the lowland CSEs and a positive effect for the higher elevation CSE. The patterns of overall utility were relatively stable to shifts in BES preferences, with exception of a shift toward a preference for carbon sequestration. Overall, the study demonstrates the potential of the DSS to investigate the development of multiple BES as well as their synergies and trade-offs for a set of lowland and mountainous forest enterprises. The new system incorporates a wide set of BES indicators, a strong empirical foundation and a flexible multi-criteria decision analysis, enabling stakeholders to take scientifically well-founded decisions under changing climatic conditions and political goals.

Unearthing People from the SaND: Relationship Discovery with Social Media in the Enterprise

The popularity of social media across the Internet re- sults in people-centric data sources that users can potentially leverage for relationship discovery tasks. In this paper, we describe SaNDVis, a visual system that supports tasks like expertise location, team building, and team coordination in the enterprise. By integrating social position, evidence, and facets into SaNDVis, we demonstrate how users can reflect on existing relationships as well as build new relationships in an enterprise setting.

Connecting Through Zoom in COVID-19 Pandemic

In the Covid-19 pandemic where every working person is working from home to stay safe and to maintain social distancing. In mild of the corona virus crisis, the videoconferencing app has emerged as the usual for connecting with others face-to-face actually in each commercial enterprise and private settings. In Covid19 pandemic the main trouble got here out turned into a way to live related with every other. Connectivity turned into the main trouble for anyone like in schools, colleges, universities, private sector, Government sector, spiritual sector, not unusual place human beings and plenty of more. Every task that become occurring physically among human beings went on-line via video conferencing apps Because within side the pandemic of COVID-19 no individual favored to have an impact on their jobs or employment, studies, business, personal relationship, and lots of various relationships. In mild of the corona virus crisis, the videoconferencing app has emerged as the usual for connecting with others face-to-face actually in each commercial enterprise and private settings. There are many videos conferencing gear to be had like Google meet, skype, slack, join.me, GoToMeeting, Cisco WebEx, etc. Even in case, you do not work from home, you have heard of Zoom. Zoom has emerged as incredibly famous amongst all on this COVID-19 pandemic. Let us have a few mild at the Zoom video conferencing app.

CLUSTER POLICY AS A TOOL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMY OF THE RUSSIAN REGIONS

The article researches theoretical aspects of formation and development of territorial clusters: their structure, approaches to definition, typology, key advantages. The regulatory framework for the implementation of cluster policy in the Russian Federation has been defined, as well as an analysis of the level of development achieved on the example of the Udmurt Republic. The main directions of cluster development at the federal level are considered: formation of innovation-territorial and industrial clusters. In each area, public support programmes and mechanisms have been investigated to ensure flexible funding for cluster policies. Favorable opportunities have been identified for the development of cluster projects, including when using the potentials of special economic zones, science and measures to support federal and regional development institutions. The directions of cluster initiatives in the Udmurt Republic have been formulated, the already existing cluster formations, such as innovative-territorial, industrial and tourist-recreational clusters, have been evaluated. The activity of the Russian Association of Clusters and Technology Parks as a subject uniting the organizations of technological and industrial infrastructure has been analyzed. Patterns and priorities of cluster policy development at the present stage are highlighted. Cluster associations are a unique economic system, including a set of industrial enterprises, scientific and educational organizations, and are considered as an effective tool to increase the investment attractiveness of the country and individual regions.

АНАЛІЗ ЕКОНОМІЧНОЇ ДУМКИ У РОЗРІЗІ ПЕРЕДУМОВ РОЗВИТКУ КЛАСТЕРНИХ ФОРМУВАНЬ У ПРАЦЯХ УКРАЇНСЬКИХ, БІЛОРУСЬКИХ ТА РОСІЙСЬКИХ ВЧЕНИХ

Historiography the concept of clusters in the evolution of Economic Thought has been formed for many years. A significant contribution to the development of the concept of cluster was made by foreign and domestic scientists. The article considers scientific works of Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian scientists, in particular: N.Y. Kalyuzhnova, I.V. Pilipenko, T.O. Kuznetsova, A.A. Tashkinov, M.V. Gryazev, S.A. Vasin, O.Y. Shakhov, Y.А. Sidelnikov, L.V. Dmitriev, G.A. Vinokurov, G.A. Yashev, V.K. Shcherbin, S.A. Vidimov, V.F. Bainev, N.I. Bogdan, S.G. Galuzova and others. For example, N. Kalyuzhnova and I. Pilipenko in their monographs reveal the aspect of cluster functioning, in particular, paying attention to the aspect of geographical agglomeration of firms operating in one or more similar sectors of the national economy. O. Voronov and O. Buryak consider the cluster as an ordered, relatively stable set of specialized enterprises that produce competitive products, taking into account the territorial localization of the economic sector. V.K. Shcherbin defines innovation clusters as complexes of enterprises (industrial companies, research centers, scientific institutions), public administration bodies, trade unions, public organizations based on the territorial concentration of networks of specialized suppliers, main producers and consumers connected by a technological chain. Based on the research conducted by the author, the author gave his own definition of the concept of «regional cluster», which is considered as a set of enterprises of related industries, the key role in the formation of which is played by the resource, historical and economic potential of a particular region. We also carried out a theoretical and methodological analysis of the formation of regional clusters in the context of sustainable development of territories, based on matrix analysis methods. The contribution of Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian scientists to the theory of cluster economic development was systematized by author, and key features of research were highlighted. The main aspects of the formation of regional clusters are considered, which made it possible to identify the main features of their functioning. The author’s hypothesis was put forward regarding the influence of system, process and situational approaches on the activity of clusters. The analysis made it possible to systematize the impact of the above-mentioned approaches on the activity of clusters depending on the stage of the life cycle. The stages of cluster formation, structural and functional intracluster connections based on process, system and situational approaches are studied, and approaches to the formation of cluster classification features are analyzed.

Decision Support Portal for Access Certification

Recommendation system is a technology which makes fast and intelligent business decisions. The goal of this paper is to present a recommender system that makes such decisions about user certifications in an organizational environment. It aims at analyzing the user database of a company in order to recommend how many privileges should be removed or assigned to the user based on the existing privileges as well as actions taken on them. Two types of recommendations have been explored, namely Static recommendations and interactive recommendations. The major difference between them is that static recommendation works on the entire existing data of an organization, users and their existing entitlements. It analyses that data and gives recommendations if any user has excessive or missing entitlements compared to his peers. On the other hand, interactive recommendation gives recommendation for dynamic data. When any action such as addition or removal is taken on an existing entitlement, the system analyzes a user’s current assignment and recommends addition or removal of entitlements similar to the ones on which action was taken. Outlier detection techniques and Associative rule mining are used respectively in order to build the system and tackle the problem of misuse of privileges in an enterprise setting.

Regulatory Focus, Motivation, and Their Relationship With Creativity Among Adolescents.

Due to the close relationship among intrinsic/extrinsic motivation, regulatory focus, and creativity revealed by previous literature, intrinsic/extrinsic motivation may play a mediating role between regulatory focus and creativity. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between regulatory focus and creativity by combining intrinsic/extrinsic motivation. In this study, senior high school students (n = 418) completed the Regulatory Focus Questionnaire, the Working Preference Inventory, the Williams Creativity Assessment Packet, and the Kirton Adaption–Innovation Inventory. The correlation analysis showed that both promotion and prevention focus positively correlated with intrinsic motivation; intrinsic motivation and promotion focus positively correlated with creativity personality and innovative-adaptive cognitive style; and extrinsic motivation and prevention focus negatively correlated with innovative–adaptive cognitive style. Furthermore, a path model showed that promotion focus positively predicted creativity through the mediation of intrinsic motivation. In general, our study suggests that intrinsic motivation plays a mediating role between promotion focus and creativity. Our results complement those of previous studies and serve as inspiration for the cultivation of creativity in classroom or enterprise settings.

Cultural distance and customer orientation strategy of Chinese service MNEs under the belt and road initiative

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore mechanisms of cultural distance in the base of Chinese Service Multi-National Enterprise (MNE) settings. When attempting to enter overseas markets, many service MNEs face challenges caused by the cultural distance between the home and host countries. Culture distance attracts much attention in academia and industry. However, there are few empirical works to examine how cultural distance affects customer orientation strategies in a global supply chain. This paper aims to answer the following research question: How is the effect of cultural distance on customer acquisition and customer retention strategies, and the effect of customer orientation strategies on the performance of service-oriented MNEs controlled by Chinese capital along the Belt and Road Initiative?Design/methodology/approachThis paper examines the effect of cultural distance on the customer acquisition strategy and customer retention strategy, and the effect of customer orientation strategies on the performance of Chinese Service MNEs. A large-scale empirical study of Chinese Service MNEs operating in overseas markets is performed and questionnaires were distributed and collected. This paper uses Hofstede's method (Hofstede, 2010), Schwartz's method (Schwartz, 2003) and House et al.'s method (House et al., 2004) to calculate cultural distance. By using each kind of method, this study calculates the absolute culture distance and relative culture distance respectively.FindingsThe results suggest that cultural distance negatively affects customer orientation strategy, customer acquisition strategy positively affects performance and the interaction of customer acquisition and customer retention positively affects performance.Research limitations/implicationsThis study aims to contribute to the existing literature with a more fine-grained understanding of the inclusion of customer orientation strategy of Chinese Service MNEs in global supply chains.Practical implicationsThe findings outline several important implications that Chinese Service MNEs seeking to expand to overseas markets.Originality/valueThis paper contributes a novel, combined perspective of culture distance and customer orientation strategy.

Structural Hole Theory in Social Network Analysis: A Review

Social networks now connect billions of people around the world, where individuals occupying different positions often represent different social roles and show different characteristics in their behaviors. The structural hole (SH) theory demonstrates that users occupying the bridging positions between different communities have advantages since they control the key information diffusion paths. Users of this type, known as SH spanners, are important when it comes to assimilating social network structures and user behaviors. In this article, we review the use of SHs theory in social network analysis, where SH spanners take advantage of both information and control benefits. We investigate the existing algorithms of SH spanner detection and classify them into information flow-based algorithms and network centrality-based algorithms. For practitioners, we further illustrate the applications of SH theory in various practical scenarios, including enterprise settings, information diffusion in social networks, software development, mobile applications, and machine learning (ML)-based social prediction. Our review provides a comprehensive discussion on the foundation, detection, and practical applications of SHs. The insights can facilitate researchers and service providers to better apply the theory and derive value-added tools with advanced ML techniques. To inspire follow-up research, we identify potential research trends in this area, especially on the dynamics of networks.

Ranking enterprise reputation in the digital age: a survey of traditional methods and the need for more agile approaches

Different data sources and analytical methodologies can be used to establish a ranking of enterprises according to several performance measures including their reputation, financial health, and future growth potential. Such a ranking can be extremely useful for third enterprises interested in creating alliances, outsourcing some activities, or simply contracting services offered by external firms. This paper reviews well-established methodological approaches that have been employed to generate such rankings, which are typically applied on reduced sets of large enterprises. We discuss the need to extend these ranking practices to large sets of small and medium enterprises, which do not usually provide publicly-available data. In consideration of present digital age, we support the following concepts: 1) citation indicators - such as those generated by search engines - can be employed to automate the fast generation of rankings; 2) when properly validated, these 'agile' rankings can be used as proxies for a reputation ranking.

Environmental Economic Security Management of a Coal Mining Enterprise

The structure of the mining environmental economic system, where the key role is played by a coal mining enterprise or a set of enterprises, combined, among other things, with a coal-processing infrastructure, is studied in the article. Known approaches to the definition and the features of assessing the regional environmental economic security of a coal mining enterprise are analyzed. The structure of environmental economic security management of an industrial enterprise operating in an industrialized region is considered and a method for achieving the required level of environmental economic security, expressed in the form of a cost estimate of this process, is proposed. The work performed is of practical importance for environmental surveillance of various levels and large industrial enterprises, especially those related to coal mining and processing, in order to predict the required level of environmental economic security.

ФОРМУВАННЯ МАРКЕТИНГОВОЇ СТРАТЕГІЇ ІНТЕГРАЦІЇ ОВОЧЕВИХ ПІДПРИЄМСТВ

The article considers the formation marketing strategy on the basis of agro-industrial integration as a form of vertical cooperation of agricultural enterprises with enterprises of technologically related areas. The expediency of such approaches is justified by the fact that small businesses and households are uncompetitive in the market, as they can not solve the problem of providing logistics, including seeds, fuel, machinery, innovative technologies, information and legal support, their financial condition does not allow professional marketing specialists, and their products are uncompetitive in terms of sales, range. Therefore, it is proposed to solve this problem by combining small enterprises into large ones. The efficiency of a set of enterprises, organizations and market institutions that ensure the effectiveness of relationships (economic, organizational and technical, information, communication, marketing, logistics between the enterprises of the vegetable industry, the domestic market and end consumers of vegetable products). The main elements of the infrastructure are presented stock exchanges, auctions, wholesale markets for vegetable products, city markets, sales network of enterprises and the processing industry. Approaches to generalization of marketing strategy of integration of vegetable enterprises, its characteristic features and signs that give the right to consider it as multidimensional, complex, dynamic, hierarchically structured system and to define its features are offered and generalized. To carry out joint activities in the market, small owners of private farms can choose different forms of organizational and group integration: marketing, or service, cooperative; trade groups, or associations a type of cooperative that represents its members in the process of collective bargaining issues related to the trade process, rather than the practical aspects of marketing, such as the formation of commodity parties, processing and distribution, or promotion; brand promotion of goods, which consists in the promotion of a special type of goods and is financed collectively by the producers of this product. Keywords: marketing strategy, integration, vegetable market infrastructure, agromarketing, agroholding.

Bionic organization as a stage of production enterprise development in a digital transformation process

This article embraces a concept of bionic organization as a form of production enterprise which main attribute is an integration of digital technologies in the management processes and the production lines from the product idea to its delivery to a consumer. Digital technologies reinforce human competencies and abilities of analogous machines, playing a role of independent component of executive and production system. At the same time, digital technologies become full-fledged members of the organization, enriching it with bionic treats. An idea of full human substation in production management with digital technologies is far from being practicable, but a tendency towards this change is quite clear. The main purpose of this this article is to discover main features of bionic organization as an intermediate evolution stage on the way of full human substitution with machines and digital technologies. Additionally, the article focuses on the interconnections between bionic organization, digital transformation, digital maturity and management system. This analysis was made for a production enterprise set upon a way to deep digital transformation.

FORMATION OF THE CONCEPT OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE OBJECTS TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE FEATURES OF POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS OBJECTS OF UKRAINE

Olena Afanasieva, Oleksii Basmanov, Serhii Novikov FORMATION OF THE CONCEPT OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE OBJECTS TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE FEATURES OF POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS OBJECTS OF UKRAINE The paper identifies the main provisions of the methodological apparatus of civil protection in relation to the paradigm - the object of critical infrastructure, taking into account the characteristics of potentially dangerous objects and the regulatory framework of Ukraine. The nature of the origin of the paradigm "object of critical infrastructure" is considered. Global trends in the formation of the paradigm of "critical infrastructure object" in the context of solving problems of civil protection are identified. The existing domestic legislative basis for the formation of a modern type of paradigm "critical infrastructure object" in the context of solving problems of civil protection is analyzed. The latter made it possible to determine the following - to date, and in the European Union has formed a definition of critical infrastructure, which includes physical objects, resources, services and information technology, networks and other infrastructure assets, violation or destruction of which leads to serious consequences for the health, safety and economic well-being of citizens and to the disruption of the effective functioning of government. Ukraine has passed and is in force laws that to some extent provide for measures to prevent emergencies caused by accidents and catastrophes at protected potentially dangerous facilities, the consequences of which can lead to infection, disease and death. Therefore, as a definition of critical infrastructure in the work, it is proposed to identify a set of enterprises, networks, systems, failure or disruption of which can cause loss of management and cause serious damage at the national, regional or local level. It includes nuclear and hydroelectric power plants, chemical and petrochemical plants, metallurgical plants and many other state-owned enterprises and private strategic institutions, which are not only protected, but also have special organizational and technical systems of physical protection. At the next stage of the work, the authors plan to join the development of the State system of critical infrastructure protection, which should include: creation of a state system of critical infrastructure protection; to determine the state structure responsible for the coordination of activities for the protection of critical infrastructure; to form the basis of public-private partnership and resource provision in the field of critical infrastructure protection; to promote the development of international cooperation in the field of critical infrastructure protection. Key words: emergency situation, object of critical infrastructure, civil protection, normative-legal basis