Corruption in the workplace is one of the most intensively discussed themes in recent years. Continual scandals in business and public sectors over the last decades have increased interest in self-accountability to prevent engaging in corrupt behavior in the workplace. To address the need to promote self-accountability in the context of leadership, this paper mentions five leadership practices that affect self-accountability in respect of enhancing ethical behavior. Scholarly literature on corru...

Business Management  Management Organization  Organizational Behavior 

International business, social and economic international innovation refers to the ability to develop and implement new, unique or improved to create unique value for the Country. It includes incremental or improvements to existing products, processes, services, or solutions. Consistent international cooperation and innovation skills are necessary for a country to realize its full potential and prosperity, but many Countries lack this key skill. International cooperation and innovation are essen...

Business Management 

Venture capital has become a hot topic in every economy today, as it has focused on companies with excellent growth potential and a need for large financial resources. Also in Latvia, 13 new venture capital funds have been registered for 2020, with a total fund capital of €294 million, while €172 million were uninvested. Financial resources are available in Latvia, but the question is why are there so many uninvested funds? Is it because new companies did not choose this support instrument, or b...

Business Management  Finance 

The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly altered the way humanity lives in every scope of our lives. The socio-economic impact of lockdown measures is yet to be fully understood and measured. Educational systems have been disrupted thus affecting the approach and quality assessment of learning methodologies. The training of pharmacists is necessary for the discharge of an efficient and effective pharmaceutical service in light of heightened demand due to increased morbidity due to COVID-19 has been com...

Business Management 

In Kenya, faith-based hospitals provide 40% health care services to the medium and low-income populations in the rural areas. These hospitals are facing sustainability challenges because of poor organizational performance. These failures have been attributed to overlooking the adoption of corporate governance practices where for instance boards of management of health facilities are largely made up of religious officials, therefore making the facilities lack proper corporate culture when compare...

Business Management  Management Organization 

This research intended to address a gap in the literature about Southeast Asian entrepreneurs who surmounted global crises in 1997-1999 and 2007-2009. It looked at the crucial success enablers (CSEs) of six entrepreneurs, two from each of three Southeast Asian countries, namely: Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. These business owners or managers were described as owning or managing small or medium-sized businesses. In times of major crises, the CSEs contain qualities, strategies, and ch...

Business Management  Human Resource Management  General Management 

Amid the Internet economy, the platform economy has become one of the most valuable topics for research at present. Physical enterprises also embrace the opportunity brought by the development of “Internet Plus” with the popularity of the Internet technology, trying to operate on Internet platforms. According to the existing research, there are few studies on the value source of Internet platform, and there is a lack of description of the original driving force for the expansion of Internet plat...

Business Management 

COVID-19 is the first major global pandemic in over 100 years. This is because the likelihood of such a pandemic occurring was extremely low and many of these businesses were reluctant to invest in control measures for such a catastrophic event. This paper investigates the role of enterprise risk management in business continuity and resiliency in the post-COVID-19 period. The COVID-19 pandemic has served as a wake-up call for many organizations around the world, as it has led to the discontinui...

Business Management  Risk Management 

Platform economy is the most important feature of economic industry of the Internet era. The main feature is that the Internet platform companies will idle resources through the Internet and multilateral market integration, which greatly reduces the transaction cost, and further spawns the economic subject differing from that under the guidance of traditional enterprises, as well as a large number of innovative behavior emerge. This paper first points out the emergence, characteristics and devel...

Business Management 

The objective of this research is to better understand the determinants of academic entrepreneurial intention under China’s universities. Referring to traditional entrepreneurial model and some research on academic entrepreneurial intention, this paper constructs a model linking China’s university context and academic researcher’s psychological variables with the formation of academic entrepreneurial intention. Based on 364 samples from China’s teaching and research-based universities, we adopt ...

Business Management