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Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues
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ISSN (Online) 2345-0282
Published by Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center

[2 journals]

Crisis Development and its management
- Abstract: The paper deals with the theoretical concept of crisis. The crisis is an integral and, in essence, regularly recurring part of any human activity. We are facing a crisis in areas such as the economy, politics, the military, civilization, as well as in our private, human lives. The paper analyzes in detail the dimensions and characteristics of the crisis, deals with the various stages of the crisis, their recognition and solution. The paper was created as one of the outputs of the foundation of the theory of security sciences, where the basic general concepts of security character were defined, which are valid in various fields of human activities, including various scientific fields. The concept of crisis is part of threat analysis and subsequent risk management in various fields, including economics, management of state and non-state institutions, business and overall sustainability. The concept of crisis is currently closely linked to global globalization, which brings significant benefits as well as global risks. These risks, which are not well addressed or subsequently managed, can erupt very quickly in a variety of crises of considerable global scope. The paper lists typical symptoms that are important for early detection and crisis management. The paper presents the definitions and relationships between the crisis and the stability of any systems (economic, social, political, etc.). It also provides a classification of crises, its contexts and related panic.
  PubDate: 2022-03-10T00:00:00+00:00
Big data analytics adoption via lenses of Technology Acceptance Model:
empirical study of higher education
- Abstract: The goal of this study was to establish a model to quantify the adoption of big data in relation to education and to translate the adoption of big data in literature into the educational context. This study hypothesizes that encouraging situations, perceived risk, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use influence the attitude of the students towards use and the intention to use behavior, in turn impacting the adoption of big data in education, this research used the Technology Acceptance Methodology (TAM) model. Through analyzing 282 university students, the present thesis followed quantitative data collection along with analysis procedures. Therefore, the responses of students were grouped into seven testing constructs and evaluated to understand their adoption influence. Accordingly, data were subsequently quantitatively analysed utilising Structure Equation Modelling (SEM). The findings revealed that facilitating conditions, perceived risk, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use were important determinants of the attitude of students towards use and behavioral intention to use big data, and 71.2% of acceptance was also significant for the attitude of students towards use and behavioral intention to use big data.
  PubDate: 2022-03-04T00:00:00+00:00
Understanding the predictors of entrepreneurial intentions of young people
from Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, and Romania
- Abstract: Entrepreneurship helps grow economies. Thus, under comprehensive competence frameworks, such as European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (EntreComp), entrepreneurial skills development is a global priority. However, under no guarantee, newly developed skills will be utilised in entrepreneurial activity. The question of which entrepreneurial skills predict entrepreneurial intentions remains with no definite answer. Our study examines the extent to which entrepreneurial intentions can be predicted in young people (aged 18 to 25, n=203) by a model grounded in the Self-Efficacy Theory. Our model tested the contribution of demographics, Big Five personality characteristics and entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE). Through a hierarchical multiple regression, we reveal that our participants' entrepreneurial intentions are predicted by two variables: developing new product and market opportunities and conscientiousness. As a result, we found that participants are likely to think of becoming entrepreneurs when confident in their ability to innovate and leverage the market. Interestingly, those same people tended to be somewhat less conscientious. The results showed a significant influence of neither nationality nor age or gender on entrepreneurial intentions. The novelty of our findings is three-fold. First, underlying data is derived from a multicultural sample of young people from three continents. Second, contrary to common sense, they reveal no influence of demographics on entrepreneurial intentions. Third, when ESE is explored as sub-dimensions, not all of them predict entrepreneurial intentions. Overall, our model explained 44% of the entrepreneurial intentions variation. Those results show a path to help develop better-targeted entrepreneurship education or more impactful initiatives for young people. They can be found helpful bypolicymakers, researchers and practitioners alike.
  PubDate: 2022-03-03T00:00:00+00:00
Mobile internet in the EU: problems and perspectives
- Abstract: Mobile communication has become a taken for granted condition of people’s everyday lives. Internet and mobile technologies have changed our way of both doing business and dealing with our daily routine activities. Researchers have increasingly focused on the impact of the level Internet, i.e. mobile Internet level on national economies. Mobile Internet rapidly been integrated not only into people’s daily lives, but also into the daily lives of companies, organizations, administration. The aim of the present research is to perform a statistical study and assessment of the level of mobile Internet development in Latvia in the context of the EU countries in the period from 2014 to 2019 years. The Mobile Connectivity Index measures performance of 150 countries according the four key enablers of mobile Internet connectivity: infrastructure (i.e., the availability of high-performance mobile internet network coverage), affordability (i.e., availability of mobile services and devices at price points that reflect the level of income across a national population), consumer readiness (i.e., citizens with the awareness and skills needed to value and use the internet) and content (i.e., availability of secure online content and services accessible and relevant to the local population). The study analyzes the impact of the Mobile Connectivity Index on the Latvian economic growth, makes recommendations for improving the Internet and mobile technologies as an endogenous factor of economic development.
  PubDate: 2022-02-25T00:00:00+00:00
Transition towards the artificial intelligence via re-engineering of
digital platforms: comparing European Member States
- Abstract: t. The present study is directed at comparing the performances of the 27 European Member States in the period 2012 – 2021 with the choice of assessing their improvement in the transition toward Artificial Intelligence. The study, opening from an analysis of the key factors with strategic rate in the countries’ transition, is centered on society, law, physiology, and trust impacts. The valuation of the effects was evaluated by seeing forty - two official European Commission rapports in order to create a composite analysis and assessment of the state of the transition in Europe. The study pointed at understanding the degree of transition related to 27 European Member States in the realization of AI targets. The outcomes of the study highpoint that the transition, evaluated with the support of the composite analysis, is current with a different degree between the Member State and only some elements could be evaluated as suitable in the transition toward an artificial intelligence system in the Europe.
  PubDate: 2022-02-24T00:00:00+00:00