Iza GigauriSt. Andrews Georgian University · ქართული უნივერსიტეტი
Iza Gigauri
Doctor of Business Administration
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The paper aims to clarify the implications of COVID-19 on corporate social responsibility (CSR). The research outlines an important role of CSR during the crisis and examines the pandemic impact on CSR practice of a company. The paper attempts to address the gap in the literature by considering CSR as a response strategy to uncertainties, pandemics...
COVID-19 has impacted economic and social dimensions around the globe. It triggered changes in consumer behavior requiring marketing efforts to be rethought from the sustainability point of view. The presented research is motivated by the recent article by P. Kotler discussing the new role of marketing and seeks to explore the effects of the pandem...
Social entrepreneurship is an important area of research when it comes to considering the role of business in society and how entrepreneurs solve social problems. The concept has spread not only in developing but also in developed countries. The recent Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated that crises can be addressed with entrepreneurial innovation a...
The attention to the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship has been especially enhanced during the current turbulent times, as social enterprises have a key role to play in solving social problems caused by the pandemic. Currently, social entrepreneurship is still an undeveloped area in Georgia, but it has the potential to contribute to the country...
PURPOSE: Entrepreneurship seen as an engine for economic development is especially desirable for emerging countries to support rapid growth. Moreover, entrepreneurs can support social transformation in favor of more sustainable products and services. Sustainable orientation of entrepreneurship contributes to sustainable development goals and preven...
The current study examines the motivational factors, types of uncertainty, and entrepre-neurship strategies of transitional entrepreneurship among ethnic minorities, immigrants, and women entrepreneurs, drawing insights from an extensive literature review. To understand the dynamics of transitional entrepreneurship, a thematic review, a qualitative...
The significance of sustainability has been increasing and also financial organizations adopted a broad view of their purposes to serve all stakeholders. It is important to respond to their social impact. The purpose to empower the digital economy can be achieved through being reliable and enhancing access to financial services to include everyone...
The activity of companies with foreign capital is more often in the center of attention of the public opinion, researchers and public authorities considering the positive effects but also the negative externalities that it generates on the economies of the host countries. With the liberalization of capital movements, FDI was consider the panacea th...
The challenges imposed by climate change and the limited nature of resources generate paradigm shifts at the level of economic, social, and environmental policies and strategies. Promoting the principles of sustainable development and the circular economy is a priority worldwide. Thus, the motivation of this research is to explore the European coun...
Wellbeing can be ensured in society through quality healthcare, a minimum of medical errors, and the improved performance of healthcare professionals. To this end, health information systems have been implemented in hospitals, with this implementation representing progress in medicine and information technologies. As a result, life expectancy has s...
Companies and Brands can find new solution-oriented strategies if they use not only the real world but virtual reality. The market capabilities can be doubled by success in both markets, either physical or digital. The Marketing that is needed today is seeking a "Phygital" Solution that combines physical and digital activities for the brand. In add...
Financial inclusion is considered to be a tool to tackle poverty, promote equality, and support economic growth. Sustainable development goals can be achieved through financial inclusion as it implies access to and availability of financial services to disadvantaged groups, especially in developing economies. Despite the fact that financial inclusi...
The energy sector faces challenges to ensure long-term supply from reliable sources in order to satisfy demand, which has been growing due to modern lifestyles and technological innovations. Simultaneously, attention needs to be paid to the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability of energy companies as they belong to the environmen...
Sustainability is an important issue to be addressed by the accreditation agencies in order to ensure quality education at the degree programs offered by universities. Their joint effort needs to be focused to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals and to achieve a common sustainable future for current and future generations. This chapter...
Economic growth is a major goal pursued by public authorities but can be achieved with the involvement of several categories of stakeholders given the complexity of the phenomenon and the many influencing factors. In this research paper, the authors analyze specific current issues that are representative as influencers of economic growth. This stud...
The attention to the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship has been especially enhanced during the current turbulent times, as social enterprises have a key role to play in solving social problems caused by the pandemic. Currently, social entrepreneurship is still an undeveloped area in Georgia, but it has the potential to contribute to the country...
Sustainability is an important issue to be addressed by the accreditation agencies in order to ensure quality education at the degree programs offered by universities. Their joint effort needs to be focused to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals and to achieve a common sustainable future for current and future generations. This chapter...
Recognition according to the results of the evaluation of scientific productivity and quality of research, Rector's order, St. Andrew the First-Called Georgian University of the Georgian Patriarchate
The book titled New Perspectives on Using Accreditation to Improve Higher Education outlines which issues need to address and how they should be addressed if accreditation agencies globally are to achieve their primary objective of ensuring that universities, as institutions, and the degree programs they offer are of even greater quality than they...
4th EASTERN EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS
Knowledge Transfer for Sustainable Development in Digital Global Societies
https://www.vspv.si/uploads/visoka_sola/eecme_4/2022_zbornik_verzija_koncna2.pdf
https://www.vspv.si/eecme-conference
"MANAGEMENT OF THE HUMAN RESOURCES - FROM CRISIS ACTIONS TO VISIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT"
HIGHER SCHOOL OF SECURITY AND ECONOMICS /HSSE
The ongoing and prolonged pandemic crisis that has been followed by the economic crisis and war in Ukraine has caused unprecedented turbulence in almost every area of society. Organizations are encountering transformation requirements in order to survive. Employees suffer from increased stress, burnout, anxiety, instability, and employment insecuri...
Sustainable economic growth can be achieved through tourism by protecting the environment, maintaining natural resources, creating employment, improving cultural diversity, and recognizing cultural heritage values. The concept of tourism sustainability is gradually growing globally and becoming a dominant aspect in modern business, as companies nee...
Sustainable economic growth can be achieved through tourism by protecting the environment , maintaining natural resources, creating employment, improving cultural diversity, and recognizing cultural heritage values. The concept of tourism sustainability is gradually growing globally and becoming a dominant aspect in modern business, as companies ne...
In today’s world of global change, it has never been more critical for businesses to adapt their strategies, management styles, and policies to match that of the surrounding environment. Consumers are increasingly becoming more aware of the impact that businesses and product consumption have on environmental health. Thus, businesses have had to alt...
Higher Education Institutions increasingly include sustainable development concepts in their programs to teach their students about sustainability. This tendency is encouraged by the Sustainable Development Goals. Today’s technological age implies concerns about sustainability including ethical decision-making and responsible behavior of organizati...
Sustainable Tourism Issues in European Countries during the Global Pandemic Crisis
Journal Sustainability
CIBES CONFERENCE Current Issues in Business and Economic Studies
The Kirkland Research Program, Research project at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Polish-American Freedom Foundation & Leaders of Change Foundation
Sustainable development is a complex process that requires the concerted effort of various categories of stakeholders. Companies have become aware of the role they can play in the transition to the green economy, which is why they are voluntarily involved in various CSR programs. In addition, economic agents try to provide the most complete informa...
To successfully complete the program "How to prepare educational programs for accreditation"
After the breakdown of Soviet Communism, Georgia like other soviet republics has been transforming from administrative command economies to market economies. This transformation has caused changes in economic, social, and political domains offering new market opportunities in entrepreneurship.Yet, social entrepreneurship is still an undeveloped are...
The lockdown regulations aiming at avoiding the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19 have caused disruptions in organizations of all types or sizes. In order to survive and remain competitive, enterprises have moved online. In line with the dramatic changes around the globe triggered by the regulations as a part of preventive measures, social ent...
The social responsibility of European energy companies-between climate crisis and energy crisis / Responsabilitatea socială a companiilor energetice europene-între criza climatică și criza energetică.
The 8th International Conference "Economic Scientific Research - Theoretical, Empirical and Practical Approaches"
Remote Working Challenges for Georgian Social Enterprises in the Context of the Current Pandemic.
9th International Conference "EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE LABOUR MARKET – INNOVATION, COMPETENCES, PERFORMANCE – MOVING TOWARDS THE NEW NORMAL"
The pandemic is seen as an opportunity to further advance in business ethics. Prof. Freeman called academics to contribute to developing more ethical business models. Businesses have been revising their missions towards more ethical business models as the pandemic has changed attitudes to life. Society expects that companies will serve human beings...
The Health Reform of the country is a very difficult burden for two reasons: firstly, we need an appropriate economy level in the country, that can bear the new health model, established through reform, and secondly, the country needs a health system that is appropriate either for its economic system or for its tradition and history. Health reforme...
Business education empowers students to find quick solutions in the modern global and complex world when continuous changes are occurring. Future business leaders need to possess skills to identify solutions for ethical dilemmas they can face in the workplace. Business graduates need to understand the role of business in society and wider responsib...
Bucharest University of Economic Studies
The 4th International Conference on Economics and Social Sciences
Resilience and Economic Intelligence Through Digitalization and Big Data Analytics
First of all, we would like to congratulate on International vHR day to all human resource professionals as well as academics and researchers working on HRM issues.
Indeed it is important to celebrate HR as a profession, the work that HR professionals are doing, and their positive contribution to individuals, organizations on a national and intern...
2nd International Conference Global Ethics - Key of Sustainability (GEKoS)
EBEN: European Business Ethics Network
The purpose of the paper is to research young employees' attitudes toward leadership in their organizations and gender role in leadership. The study explores what expectations have young people towards leadership behavior and leadership traits. It opted for a quantitative research approach using the descriptive research method. The data was collect...
The presented research explores the expectations of young employees to leadership and reveals their attitude towards leaders in organizations. The study elaborates on leadership styles, traits, and behaviors the new generation anticipates from the leaders. Additionally, the research analyzes the similarities and differences of male and female leade...
International Scientific and Practical Conference "Social and Economic Aspects of Education in Modern Society", Warsaw, Poland
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an important area of research when considering the role of business in society and how business is answering the call for the pursuit of the common good.
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Recognition according to the results of the evaluation of scientific productivity and quality of research,
Rector's order, St. Andrew the First-Called Georgian University of the Georgian Patriarchate
XII International Scientific and Practical Internet Conference
"Modern Movement of Science"
NEW GENERATION'S EXPECTATIONS FOR 21ST CENTURY LEADERS AND PERCEPTION BY YOUNG EMPLOYEES OF LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS
European Journal of Management and Marketing Studies European Journal of Management and Marketing Studies
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14th International Scientific and Practical Internet Conference
"Current challenges and topical issues in science, education and production: cross-sectoral debates"
The recent economic and social transformations due to the new coronavirus pandemic have enforced organizations to change business processes. Moreover, the lockdown regulations aiming at preventing the spread of the virus have induced accelerated digitalization. Businesses and employees have to adapt quickly and overcome difficulties with innovative...
The Second International Scientific Conference "Happiness and Contemporary Society",
The Ukrainian Institute for Happiness Research
Low-Touch Economy is emerging due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has caused dramatic changes in all aspects of society including the way business is operating. The lockdown policies aiming at avoiding the spread of the new coronavirus in almost every country led to disruptions in business continuity.
The aim of this paper is to overview a new concep...
Article: Effects of Covid-19 on Human Resource Management from the Perspective of Digitalization and Work-life-balance
Purpose-The paper aims to clarify the implications of COVID-19 on organizations and Human Resource Management. The study proposes organizational responses to the pandemic, and outlines how to adapt HRM practices to the new normal. It aims to explore how human resource managers support employees and whether top management has a strategic focus on em...
During the last several months, jobs have become less secure and more demanding. In light of these changes, it is appropriate to ask what is known about the implications of Covid-19 on human resource management. The paper investigates challenges HRM has faced regarding alterations in jobs, tasks and duties, flextime working schedules and work-relat...
The new Corona virus Covid-19 pandemic has altered the way people are living and working. Human resource management playing a key role in digital transition encounters serious challenges with respect to employee wellbeing, and organizational changes. The paper addresses remote working before and during the pandemic. It examines HRM initiatives and...
The paper studies organizational support with respect to Human Resource Management during the COVID-19 pandemic. It examines HRM initiatives regarding changing in jobs, working routine, workplaces, and remote working conditions. The paper analyses how HR managers supported employees during the pandemic and how top-management encouraged employee wel...
Unprecedented changing and inconsistent global environment offers both new opportunities and many challenges to modern business. In order to adapt and survive, companies need to make decisions quickly. Team working is still important even with physical distancing caused by COVID19 around the world. Competitive advantage of companies correlates with...
Extraordinary changes caused by COVID-19 have enforced companies around the globe to accelerate transition to digital business processes. Human resource management (HRM) is in the heart of these transformations helping organizations to navigate in the vague present and unforeseeable future. HRM needs to manage people in companies during the crisis...
Dramatic changes caused by the new coronavirus COVID-19 have unprecedented implications on companies around the globe and influenced human resource management profoundly. HRM took leadership to navigate in the vague present and unforeseeable future by managing people to cope with stress and to continue working remotely so that business goes on with...
Dramatic changes caused by the new coronavirus COVID-19 have unprecedented implications on companies around the globe and influenced human resource management profoundly. HRM took leadership to navigate in the vague present and unforeseeable future by managing people to cope with stress and to continue working remotely so that business goes on with...
International Journal of Management Science and Business Administration
Research Leap: Network of Academic and Research Excellence
Entrepreneurship and innovation tend to serve as vehicles to provide solutions to economic woes during recession without relying upon public resources. The article discusses the definition of social entrepreneurship and shows how social entrepreneurship has developed at the relation of private, public, and nonprofit sectors. It outlines main trends...
Award for the effective management of online teaching and the use of innovative educational platforms in the global pandemic,
School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences, St. Andrew the First-Called Georgian University of the Georgian Patriarchate
Background: A manager is the one who is responsible for accomplishing the tasks of the organization and who directs the efforts of the organization's employees for this purpose. In this paper, we will focus on one of the functions of management-the function of personnel management and on some trends that the 21st century has brought. Objectives: of...
Unprecedented changing and inconsistent global environment offers both new opportunities and many challenges to modern business. In order to adapt and survive, companies need to make decisions quickly. Team working is still important even with physical distancing caused by COVID19 around the world. Competitive advantage of companies correlates with...
1st International Online Academic Conference on 'Contemporary Challenges to Economics and Business' organized by Georgian National University SEU & Lazarski University, Poland
Unprecedented changing and inconsistent global environment offers both new opportunities and many challenges to modern business. In order to adapt and survive, companies need to make decisions quickly. Team working is still important even with physical distancing caused by COVID- 19 around the world. Competitive advantage of companies correlates wi...
Certificate of Appreciation for fruitful activities in 2018-2019,
Rector of Saint Andrews Georgian University,
Dean of School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences
The paper discusses the theoretical grounds of perceptual mapping and its importance in branding. The paper explains the use of perceptual maps and demonstrates how the collected data can be transferred into visual maps. Simultaneously, it examines various methods of perceptual mapping, and illustrates advantages and disadvantages of different mapp...
Georgia, a post-soviet country, located in the South Caucasus at a crossroads of Europe and Asia, presents Europe’s natural gateway towards Asia. The Belt and Road Initiative, also known as the One Belt One Road, is 21st century Silk Road encompassing transportation and communication systems connecting China to Europe. Since the Initiative is at it...
Belt and Road Forum took place in Georgia, drawing hundreds of delegates from around the world. Georgia's geographic location at a strategic crossroads between two continents-Europe and Asia, has often fueled conflict throughout history, but also trade and wealth. The exploratory research was conducted to clarify the situation about the Silk Road p...
The concept of social entrepreneurship is developing rapidly, and attracting progressively increased attention from many spheres. The idea of social entrepreneurship combines the passion of a social mission with business. Since major social institutions are often regarded as ineffective and inefficient, social entrepreneurs are needed to solve risi...
Abstract
Last decades, digital processes caused the transformation of society, business, and government. It has become not only a part of economic integration, but it has also performed as a digital economy. Today, the digital economy is characterized by a high growth, innovative development, and wide utilization in the different sectors of economy...
Increasingly, the world is recognizing the role of business ethics as their effects are manifested towards society. Accordingly, there has been a shift towards socially responsible behaviour around the world. However, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in developing countries is rarely discussed among researchers. Moreover, there is no previous...
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Gradually, the world is recognizing the role of business ethics and responsibility towards society. Accordingly, thereis a shift towards social responsible and ethical behaviour around the word. Corporate Social Responsibility as adeclared strategy contributes a sustainable development of a company and prepares it for a global competitiveadvantage....
Gradually, the world is recognizing the role of business ethics and responsibility towards society. Accordingly, there is a shift towards social responsible and ethical behaviour around the word. Corporate Social Responsibility as a declared strategy contributes a sustainable development of a company and prepares it for a global competitive advanta...
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This book intends to display relevant theories, concepts, and practices of Sustainable Marketing while digitalization has been accelerating. It will identify tools, and strategies for sustainable marketing, sustainability branding, sustainable consumption and production, and will connect Sustainable Development Goals with Marketing strategies in the digital era. This book aims to link Sustainable Marketing with Digitalization and reveal appropriate marketing models and techniques. Moreover, this book will explore the challenges of Sustainable Marketing practice and opportunities that digitalization offers to Sustainable Marketing and Branding. The book also aims to propose future research avenues and practical solutions.