Katarzyna Cheba

West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin · Department of Applied Mathematics in Economics

Introduction: ESG risk and the business sector are essential in the process of adapting business models towards sustainability. The article aims to analyze ESG risk, taking into account these business sectors that are most affected by ESG risk, and to identify the relationship between ESG risk and cooperation models of financial institutions and co...

Research background: A rapidly developing e-commerce market and growing customer expectations regarding the speed and frequency of deliveries have made the last mile of the supply chain more challenging. The expectations of e-customers increase every year. They choose those companies that deliver goods faster and cheaper than others. A significant...

The main purpose of the paper was to identify the most frequently discussed directions of research on green transformation. In the article, both the significant similarities in the existing studies in this field, as well as the newly emerging topics of research, are presented. For this purpose, the authors used a systematic literature review with e...

A global pandemic of coronavirus COVID-19 affects the manufacturing supply chains significantly. This study aims to identify and evaluate the reaction of manufacturing supply chains in using the concept of double-loop learning to mitigate the disruptions induced by COVID-19 at the early stage of pandemic. A two-stage research process has been devel...

The main purpose of the paper is to identify the factors that determine the course of green transformation and to assess the current stage and possible directions of change in subsequent years in EU countries. The literature lacks comprehensive studies that show the impact of diverse types of factors on the course of green transformation. For this...

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCM) is a research tool used to study cause-and-effect links between factors determining the development (or lack thereof) of the studied phenomenon. The main effect of its application is a graphical presentation of the relationships between the factors identified as the key ones. This solution usually applies as an auxiliary...

The paper presents the research project implemented at Wrocław University of Economics and Business led by Eng. Maja Kiba-Janiak, Ph.D., Prof. of WUEB, financed by the National Science Centre in Poland, granted based on the decision number 2018/31/B/HS4/03711. The project answers the challenges created by the dynamically growing e-commerce market....

Despite being rich in cultural heritage, traditional handicrafts require innovation to achieve competitiveness. This study addresses the understanding of innovation in traditional handicrafts for sustainable development. The paper emphasizes the importance and potential advantages of innovation and its synergistic effect with cultural traditions le...

This chapter discusses new approaches presented in the literature to creating sustainable shareholder value that requires companies and investors to adopt a systemic and long-term vision and to understand the financial significance of economic, social and governance (ESG) factors of threats and opportunities. The chapter is based on a literature re...

Increasing the share in the so-called energy mix of pure energy is a part of the EU investment plan regarding the European Green Deal. There is the growing importance of innovations in the field of renewable, clean and green technologies, and the prospect of a green economy raises the requirements of the market in respect of ecological solutions. E...

The chapter presents a review of the most important definitions concerning green energy, its kinds and sources. It also addresses the main development trends, paying particular attention to the impact on the natural environment and energy, and energy effectiveness. Another vital issue discussed here is the transition from an economy based on tradit...

Issues related to death are difficult areas of human existence and are most often considered in terms of ethical or non-ethical behaviour. The aim of the research was to examine the attitudes of Polish medical and nursing personnel towards death. The research was conducted among medical (110 people) and nursing staff (110 people) working in Polish...

Green transformation has become one of the most important directions in the further development of the world. It involves the development of green technologies and the creation of legal regulations enforcing, for example, saving energy or reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases, as well as any other activities aimed at changing society’s attitud...

The aim of the article is to study ESG factors and the motives of including the ESG perspective by companies in their business models (BM). The 2-stage research procedure was used to analyse the problem: bibliographic research was carried out with the use of VOSviewer software. In the paper, 99 from 3000 publications were selected for in-depth anal...

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risk is becoming increasingly important in conditions of ongoing environmental and social change. This has specific implications for risk management in the public sector. Many publications have been devoted to ESG risk in the commercial sector, especially for enterprises, while there is a literature gap i...

Nowadays, sustainability issues are at most importance for the global world. The Agenda 2030 for sustainable development is the key strategy in this field. When sustainability issues are discussed, the most often topics relate to sustainable cities, sustainable supply chain, sustainable transportation etc. However, it must be noted that sustainabil...

The Internet plays an important role in this respect, which, combined with the marketing of the 21st century, offers many opportunities. It allows for effective communication between the entrepreneur and the client. This interactive medium allows enterprises not only to receive feedback on the products they offer, but also to personalize them. Also...

Sustainable financial systems are gaining importance in light of the increasing impacts of ESG risk in the real and financial spheres. It is believed that sustainable financial systems effectively support the management of this risk on national, international and global scales, hence the, inter alia, UNEPFI recommendations. Work on building sustain...

The main purpose of the paper is to present a proposal to measure the relationships between Goal 7 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and one of the areas considered in the green growth concept: environmental production efficiency. Both of these areas illustrate the relationship between the natural environment and the economy, emphasizi...

The e-commerce market in cities is currently one of the fastest-growing markets. By observing the current changes taking place in it, we have a unique opportunity to learn about its potential development directions in the future with great acceleration. Some of the recent changes caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have a chance to affect this...

This paper presents a novel approach to assessing a maturity level in terms of formulation and implementation of sustainable integrated passenger and freight transport strategies. Proposed by the authors model also enables evaluating the state of the local government (city administration) in terms of the results of undertaken actions. The tool was...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to fill the research and cognitive gap by comparative analyzing of the cluster supply chain (CSC) and supply chains not belonging to the clusters to examine the relational embeddedness as the differentiator of supply chains operating in the clusters. Design/methodology/approach The conceptual model was tested w...

This research provides a comprehensive review of corporate sustainability literature in various application areas. The chapter also highlights the gaps in clearly explaining the scope for it extending and incorporating the term of corporate sustainability into other research areas. The main advantage of this study is that it provides an insight int...

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund reported that the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires an escalation of development finance. The report Scaling Finance for the Sustainable Development Goals highlighted the urgency of the efforts to realize SDGs in encouraging financial innovation to move quickly. Even i...

The main purpose of the paper is to assess the level of EU countries’ ability to compete in a sustainable manner and to compare these results with achievements in the area of sustainable competitive position. In the paper, the definition of the new economic category – sustainable competitiveness and its main components: sustainable competitive capa...

The literature on the subject indicates that green growth is a direct result of implementing a sustainable development strategy. According to this assumption, countries that include sustainable development goals in their strategic documents should also achieve results in the area of green growth or the green economy. The monitoring of green growth...

The main purpose of the study is to present a new approach to comparing EU regions according to their level of innovation. For many years, different organizations have published reports related to the innovation level of EU countries and regions. Usually, taxonomic methods are used to measure development in this area. The main disadvantage of this...

The main purpose of this chapter is to identify the existing relations between the selected areas of sustainable development but carried out on the basis of the indicators describing the macroeconomic dimension of this development from the OECD countries' perspective. The theoretical basis for analyses is the concept of shared value, for the first...

The main purpose of the paper is evaluating the effectiveness of strategies applied by transnational corporations on the markets worldwide on the basis of the set of indicators proposed by the author. The added value of the presented analysis is also the proposed approach to establishing the ranking of the transnational corporations using the relat...

Finance and financial markets are the engine of sustainability. Financial institutions are one of the main channels influencing entrepreneurs. By determining the conditions of access to financial services, the financial market affects the decisions and attitudes of entrepreneurs, including their business models. The purpose of this article is to di...

Entrepreneurs perceive and build sustainable business models in different ways. The actual and declared entrepreneurs’ attitudes and actions towards sustainable business models differ. The aim of the study was to determine whether the declarations of enterprises referring sustainable business models are coherent with actions they have taken to buil...

The main purpose of the paper is the identification of internal and external factors prompting selected Polish R&D departments to be active in innovation, R&D and user-driven innovation. To study the relation between selected determinants, econometric models were applied. The results of the adopted research procedure confirmed that it is important...

The main purpose of the paper is an expert assessment of the relationship existing between selected indicators carried out using a relatively new tool in economic sciences: Fuzzy Cognitive Maps. The effect of its application is a graphical presentation of the relationship between the factors identified as the key ones. In the paper 23 indicators, d...

The main purpose of the paper is to present proposals for the study of relationships between the dimensions of sustainable development and other areas of the EU countries’ development: innovation and competitiveness both from theoretical and practical perspective. The first part presents the assumptions adopted by the authors, and the second the 2-...

The main purpose of this article is the presentation of the relationships of coopetition among the internal stakeholders of a cluster that could contribute to the development of tourism in its area of operation. This analysis is based on the case study of the Historical Tourism Cluster, which operates on the Polish-German border. This article is th...

For many years different scientists have published the results of research related to the usage of UDI (user-driven innovation) concept and its impact on innovation activity of enterprises. None of them, however, concerned the relationship between various determinants for developing the R&D (Research and Development) sphere. It is the reason why th...

A literature review showed that finance is a driver of sustainability. However, to achieve sustainability through finance, it is necessary to rebuild and adapt the financial system to the specifics of sustainable development. Modern financial systems can be described as one-dimensional, focusing on ensuring the economic security of transactions. Me...

One of the most common errors in research on sustainable development is to analyse a set of features describing this development within one set of diagnostic features. Such an approach does not allow for examining the real changes taking place within each area of sustainable development. These changes may have a completely different direction in th...

The goal of the paper is to examine the relation between finance and sustainability, with a special emphasis on the impact of negative externalities. Sustainable development as a concept aims to mitigate negative externalities. Conventional finance offers no room for the environment and society. Therefore, three-dimensional sustainable finance has...

The purpose of the paper is study of spatial uniformity in the field of sustainable development of European Union and geographical regions of Europe analyzed by the prism of EU countries located in this regions before, during and after the economic crisis from 2007–2008. Material and methods The analysis of similarities and differences between the...

According to the European Commission (2007), in the cities particular emphasis should be placed on the implementation of actions that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions, noise and other pollutions. The implementation of these objectives requires access to much up-to-date information including the type and size of the flow of goods, passenger car...

The main purpose of the study was a statistical analysis of of road safety in voivodeship cities of Poland. Spatio-temporal data contained, inter alia, in the Regional Data Bank and in the Police reports available on the Internet was used to conduct this study. In the study a zero unitarization method proposed by Kukuła was used. This method allowe...

The main purpose of the study was an analysis of differences between Polish cities in the field of the quality of the environment. For this purpose the multi-dimensional analysis of correspondence on the basis of the developed complex matrix of markers was used. Due to a large number of variants of the analysed variables, the Ward’s method was appl...

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Until recently, the sustainable development indicators published by Eurostat were divided into 10 thematic areas. Currently apart of this division, the new indicators system divided into 17 objectives of the Sustainable Development Strategy according The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has been published. The analyses presented in this pape...

The aim of the study is to determine the pace and directions of changes (understood as: improvement or deterioration) occurring in selected areas of sustainable development of EU Member States. The paper analyzes dynamics of changes in selected areas of sustainable development monitored on the basis of headline indicators published by Eurostat from...

The principle of transparency not only is changing but its importance is increasing. International organizations, including the OECD, are seeking to develop harmonized standards of transparency in public administration. This fact is of particular importance in the search for common solutions for the OECD countries in the implementation of transpare...

Consistent socio-economic development is one of the strategic goals of the European Union (EU) functioning. The research results presented in the literature focus mainly on the comparison of the position occupied by certain EU countries with respect to other member countries. However, it is also important to address the issue of the EU consistency...

Urban freight transport requires changes in freight behavior from stakeholders in many cities. In order to successfully achieve this a close cooperation among stakeholders is required. This paper discusses the cooperation developed between the stakeholders during the realization of projects within the scope of Urban Freight Transport (UFT). The mai...

Research background: The basic question we ask is whether is it possible to talk in today’s globalizing world about the uniform of the competitiveness of the economies? Posing such questions is particularly important in the case of political and economic structures such as the European Union. The competitiveness of the economies is now one of the m...

The purpose of the article is to analyse the uniformity of changes over time concerning sustainable development of the European Union. Such analyses are particularly important as the pursuit of sustainable development of the EU countries is one of its strategic developmental objectives. The informational basis of the study were the sustainable deve...

The aim of this paper is a comparative analysis of the disparities between EU Member States regarding the uniformity of the observed changes in the field of sustainable development. In order to fulfil the purpose the relatively dynamic taxonomy has been applied. In the work the key indicators of the Sustainable Development analysis have been used....

In literature, discussions on creating and modelling the transport behaviour of urban residents relate to both large and small cities. Despite this, there is a need for a holistic approach and interdisciplinary research in this field, especially dedicated to smaller towns also exposed to the various problems associated with urban transport. The rat...

One of the most important areas of sustainable development is the transport sector. There are a lot of different examples of sustainable transport in many papers. The most commonly used definitions of sustainable transport include environmentally sustainable transport, sustainable transport system and process sustainability of the transport system....

Oddajemy do rąk Czytelników kolejny numer czasopisma „Problemy Transportu i Logistyki”. Opracowane artykuły podzielono według trzech grup problemów: problemy transportu, problemy logistyki oraz prawne aspekty transportu i logistyki. Poruszone zagadnienia zostały ukazane zarówno w ujęciu teoretycznym, jak i praktycznym. W zamierzeniu autorów zasadni...

Dynamic changes observed on global markets mainly due to the economic slowdown but also as in the case of Japan the effect of natural disasters, are the main reason for the need to take into account the new operating conditions in global logistics strategies of corporations. They also have a direct impact on decisions concerning the location of for...

The development of clusters seems to be a natural consequence of the observed trends in the global economy. The increased interest in the creation and development of clusters can also be seen in most of the countries of the European Union, however, the experience of EU countries in this field is different. In addition to strong clusters with a long...

The paper presents the application of selected methods of multivariate statistical analysis including factor and conjoint analyses in terms of modeling transportation preferences of urban residents. The introduced methodologies can be useful tools for local authorities while designing solutions in order to improve the competitiveness of public tran...

The paper presents a multiple correspondence analysis of customer preferences at the m-commerce market. The authors have focused on customer preferences in relation to the use of mobile phones while shopping. The correspondence analysis has been developed based on the survey results conducted among 408 customers. During the study 4 consumer segment...

The main goal of this article is to present some results of research conducted within the project NN115403940 funded by the National Science Centre. Conducted research focuses on proposed methodology for planning temporary production networks of small and medium-sized enterprises operating in the industrial clusters and its computer implementation....